The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey has 10000 annual wage earn
ers.
London policewomen work seven
hours day and receive at the rate
Of $40 per week.
The wages of government rail- Dad
workers in Ecuador range from 80 to
40 cents day.
The specialization of all the important
industries in Spain is being given care
full consideration.
The average daily wage Of women
workers in Germany has increased 263
per cent since 1914.
Nineteen out Of every 100 women
between the age of twenty-fonr and
thirty-five work for a living.
Physicians in New York contemplate
forming a union and atfiliating with
the American Federation of Labor
Trade unions of carriages and auto
mobile workers and electrical workers
OF Winston-Salem, n. c., have been
organized.
Strikes. lockouts and industrial con-
troversies. directly and indirectly, now
affect more than 100000 workmen and
their families.
Employees and employers are equal
ly represented on the recently formed
national wood textile industry council
in England. All discussions will be
arbitrated.
Ii is claimed that Canada faces in
dustrial conditions under which from
10000 TO 100000 workers may find
themselves without employment during
the winter.
The Swiss Federation of Metal and
Watch workers, which had only $4,000
members on January ], 1917, now has
Switzerland
More than 90 per cent of union
builders ut Miami. Fla. voted for q
general strike to uphold the principle
of the closed shop. More than 5000
union men are affected and S2,000,o00
worth of building held up.
Demands of 1000 New York retail
grocery clerks, who struck for in
creased wages and shorter hours. have
been granted and the men returned
hour day and a wage scale OF $50 a
week.
A general strike of unions of the
Mexican confederation of labor is
threatened. according to Mexico City
newspapers. The confederation. IL is
said, has instructed all affiliated un-
ions to be prepared to quit work upon
receipt OF strike order.
Anthracite and brown coal workers
OF Saxony, recognizing the critical sit
uation due TO the coal shortage. have
voted to resume working eight hours
day, including Sundays and holidays.
until March. according 10 advices 10
the Berlin Eossiche Zeitung from ORES
den.
Declaring that the Standard Steel
Car company of Hammond has not
made satisfactory concessions in at
tempts at mediation. the electrical
workers voted to continue the strike
The car workers voted TO return to
work. Blacksmiths and machinists
have refused to return.
The City Firemen's union Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia withdrew from the
American Federation of Labor and will
continue as All independent union
Congress has announced an increase
in the firemen's pay would not be con-
sidered while they were connected
with the federation. The withdrawal
had been expected since the recent
disintegration of the polcemen's union
There are now 100000 persons in
65 strikes in 20 states.
Sixty per cent of the coal wagon
drivers aud longshoremen in Toronto
Ont, are organized.
John Turner, WHO died recently in
Camden, n j., had the distinction OF
working fifty-two years and eight
months for the Pennsylvania railroad
without having lost days work.
The recent increase In wages grant
ed wiremen will affect between 10000
and $4,000 workers and will mean an
increase Of over $5,OOO,0O0 year in
he expenditures of the Western Union
Telegraph company.