The Jones County news., 1920-12-02
OTHER LABOR NOTES

cent of all the coal.
Between 1914 and 1917 the female
membership in British trade unions In
creased from 120,1 ,191 to 447, ,404.
All the textile factories in Petro-
grad, Russia, 10 in number, are closed,
and about 10000 workmen are idle.
The production of coal In the Dutch
West Indies is in, the hands of the
government, except for few private
collieries.
In the printing and bookbinding
trades in England a general advance
of $203 week to men and S5 cents
to women has been granted.
The schedule of wage increases
granted to railroad workers in this
country will be applied to the Grand
Trunk system throughout Canada.
The Lake Superior district produces
four-fifths of the iron ore output of
the United States. In 1918 1t was SO
per cent of the total of 100000 tons.
Striking New York fur workers won
over several employers who are mem
bers of an organization that is pledged
to resist demands of their employees.
A wage scale that ranges from $40
to $50 a week and an eight-hour day
has been negotiated by the San Fran
cisco Theatrical Stage Employees I'M
ion.
The big Baldwin cotton mills at
Chester. S. c., reduced wages 20 per
cent. 1t is the first big industry there
to inaugurate such a retrenchment pol
icy.
Ninety-nine cities in Ontario have
housing commissions, and 6S have COM
menced the building of houses under
the scheme of the government loans
for that purpose.
The Tomah and La Crosse (Wis.)
plants of the Badger Knitting Mills
have closed because of lack of orders
for textiles. The company ware
houses are filed with finished gar
ments.
Dissatisfaction with the provisional
settlement of the strike of stevedores
and dock workers at Vera Cruz, Mex
leo. which was announced, bas been
expressed by the chambers of COM
merce and industry and the associa-
tion of shipmasters..
EmpIoyinb printers associations in
the United States and Canada, with
the exception of some employers in the
Southeast, entered into an agreement
with the five printing trades unions
for the Inauguration of the 44-hour
week in the printing industry on Nay
i, 1921.
Telegraphic information received in
reliable quarters at Ean Antonio, Tex,
states that stevedores at Tampico,
Progresso and Puerto Mexico. have
struck in sympathy with the Vera Cruz
walkout. Uneassness is felt in Man
zanola and other west coast ports that
the strike will become general. Vir-
rually all shipping along the east coast
is tied up.
The Wool Sorters' union of Lawrence
Mass. at a meeting attended by 400
members, voted to oppose any reduc-
ton in wages attempted before the
cost of living has been lowered. II
was also voted to extend financial
and moral aid to the Lowell wool
sorters who are now out on protest
against a 10 per cent reduction In
wages already voted in that city.
A notable example of conservation
is to be found in the scheme just an
nounced by the Paris municipal coun
4 Gil for the use of the citys rubbish
which is gathered daily in trucks from
apartments and buildings. Hencefortf
this will be heated to a temperature
Of 200 degrees Fahrenheit and ther
chemically treated until it forms 6
pulp. to be mixed with chalk found In
abundance near the city. This in turr
is made into brick for use in paving
and building.
The threatened strike of 10000 mill
wagon drivers in the New York metro
politan district was averted when mor'
than 5000 workers at mass meeting
In Madison Square Garden, voted unan
imously to arbitrate their demand
for an increase in wages and shorte
hours by committee of seven, to o.
made up of three members or the NV
unions with which they are affiliated
three representatives of the MIX Con
ference board, the organization OF tn
milk distributors. and a seventh mem
ber to be selected by the six.
The cotton mills In Spain are no
yet organized on the basis OF the eight
hour working day, and the volume
labor declining from twelve to eigh
hours has disorganized the industr
( temporarily
The bi-monthly settlement OF pud
dlers wages, held at Youngstown
Ohio, between the Western Bar Iro
association and the Amalgamated Al
sociation of Iron. Steel and Tin Wori
ers, gives the puddIers an increase 9
IA cents tom This increase break
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