The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-12-01
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

0cNcnAl A0O UcVS
Three-fourths of all the coal Of the
world is being mined in eight-hour
shifts.
Typographical workers in Pliladel-
phia have received an increase of $40
per week.
Philadelphia bricklayers are now
commanding $1.10 per hour for eight
hours work.
Over 100000 tons of coal were
mined in coal mines of Japan during
the past year.
The British Amalgamated Society of
Engineers has a membership Of yer
half a million.
Steam shovel, drag line and cable
way workers in Canada are receiving
$212 per month.
Total wages and salaries paid by
the United States Steel corporation in
1918; $452, 1858 1924.
The minimum wage for adult wom-
en- workers in Great Britain will be
$11 per week in the future.
Upholsterers in New York city now
receive 1925 a day, an increase of So
over the old scale of wages.
From $5S to $61 per week is the av-
erage wage being received by bread
makers in the United States.
Mine workers in Indiana are de-
handing a minimum wage scale Of 81
per day for a six-fiour work day.
Women upholstery workers in New
York who three years ago earned only
SO per week are now receiving $3.50
a week.
The cradle of the eight-hour day Is
to be found in five countries-Ger-
many, England, Australia, America
and France.
Issue Of stock to employees as q re-
ward for faithful service is a plan soon
to be put in operation by the Standard
Oil company.
Organized garment workers in
Newark, N. j., have established the
44hour week and secured substantial
wage increases.
Between June, 1914, and July, 1919,
the average weekly earnings of fac
tory workers In New York state in
creased 80 per cent.
Bank clerks in Oakland, CAL, who
have been receiving $50 per month are
forming an organization to better
themselves in the way Of wages.
Many thousands of girls between the
ages Of twelve and fifteen years are
employed in the factories Of Japan,
the most of them In the textile indus
try. Nv
A committee representing $4,000
workers in the military ~arsenals Of
Tokyo, Japan, have petitioned the
government for an increase in wages
ranging from 20 to so per cent.
The airplane factories in France en-
ployed 1860 workers on January 1,
1915; 10000 on January l, 1915: 49,
$40 on January /, 1917; 1861 on
January 1, 1918, and 1S8,003 on No
vember l., 1919.
Investigations made by a woman
doctor among $500 Englishwomen en-
ployed on mems work in factories dur
ing the war showed that AZ per cent
OF Lue WOUen were Su1Ierl0X 1fOu
overfatigue and i'll health.
All workers in Kingsport, Tenn, en-
ployed by ten large concerns, have
been insured against death, sickness or
accident under group policy, which
will financially benefit almost every
family in the town of 10000.
If the women of the country con-
tinue to organize at the same rate pro-
portionately for the next five years as
they have within the past four years,
they will be able to boast a member
ship little short Of 4,O0O,OO0.
Pierre Guerard, who had worked for
% years in a tannery at Quebec with
out any mishap, changed his job re-
Gently, and had barely started to work
IN another tannery when he was
caught In q shaft and instantly killed.
The lowering Of working hours in
the cotton mills Of the United States
has resulted In the loss of the produc-
tlon Of 100000 spindles, according to
estimates. II was pointed out that the
reduction In the weekly working scales
has entailed q curtahment of IL per
cent Of the output In the northern
mills and 9 per cent In those Of tho
southern districts.