The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-12-08
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Sanchez Mejias was chosen as the
first president Of the newly formed
Spanish Bull Fighters union.
The Mexican government has aban.
doned its plans for federal operation
Of coal mines, Provisional President
de Ia Huerta announces.
Missouri and Louisiana capitalists
will invest more than 100000 in
carbon works to be erected at Mon.
roe. La.
There are between 24,OOO,OOO and
26!000.O00 barrels of oil consumed an.
nually in the United States in the
making Of gas.
Street a motormen and conduc-
tors in Buenos Aires receive $1!931Ah
a day, while railroad workers wages
vary from $3.50 to $34.30 per month.
In the printing and bookbinding
trades in England a general advance
of Sab a week to men and IS cents
to women has been granted.
Detroit manufacturers have been
urged to ration work with a purpose
Of keeping in Detroit its great body
of skilled workmen, many Of whom are
now unemployed.
The Lake Superior district produces
four-f1fths Of the iron ore output of
the United States. In 1918 it was SO
per cent of the total Of 100000 900
tons.
In the early days Massachusetts was
the chief seat of the iron industry
in the American colonies, the first
successful blast furnace having been
put in operation at Lynn In 1913.
In Winnipeg, Canada, ten times as
many dwellings have been erected dur
ing the first six months of this year
as were erected during the same
period Of last year.
Officials of the Phelps Can company.
Weirton, w. Va, announced that their
plant, employing 200 persons, would be
shut down Immediately, due to lack of
orders.
A general strike attended by serious
disorders, has been declared through
out the province Of Yucatan, according
to official dispatches received by the
Mexican war office from Merida.
The A. P. Green Fire Brick company,
Mexico, Mo-, has changed the daily
hours in order to continue operations
this winter without closing down either
plant. The action is due to q falling
off of orders.
All the shirt factories of George P.
Ide & Co., Inc, located In IS cities in
various parts of the country, will be
closed indefinitely as soon as a few
remaining orders afe filled, according
to A. Harris Ide, vice president.
Belgian manufacturers have decid-
ed not to limit themselves to the MAX
ing of particular kinds Of playthings,
but plan to produce everything in the
nature of toys-dolls. wooden toys,
and propeller playthings and all sorts
of metal toys.
A threatened strike in the shoe in
dustry in Cincinnati was averted by
the workers in several unions volun-
tarily withdrawing their demands for
wage increases and agreeing to con.
tinue at the present scale for another
year.
The Calumet l. Hecla Mining com.
pany announced q 5 per cent reduc-
ton in wages, suspension Of operations
at it's White Pine. Osceola Consolidat-
ed and Osceola mines. and the laying
off Of 1900 of its $500 employees.
The order was attributed to low cop.
per prices, excess production and high
cost Of supplies.
The strike of the municipal en-
ployees of Leipsic ended with the &C.
ceptance by the workers of an increase
bringing the hourly wages of skilled
men up to $40. marks, of semi-skilled
to S.45, and Of unskilled to 4.O5, with
an advance in the menthly allowance
for each child from 30 to 40 and so
marks.
The services Of about 200 opera
tives employed In one Of the depart
ments of the Seward Trunk and Bag
company, Petersburg, Va, were dis.
missed until the first of next year.
The suspension was said by an official
of the company to be due to high
wages and high cost of material. This
is the largest factory Of its kind in
the United States.
The Irish Nationalist press advises
the railwaymen who went on strike
rather than nov trains carrying SOL
diers and police. to give In. The
press pointed out that the strike did
not check the transport Of military
and munitions.
Under a new British law, known as
the unemployment Insurance act, effec-
tive November 8, persons may obtain
eight weeks benefit insurance II they
are out of work. It Is necessary that
tie beneficiaries shall have first been
IN employment and paid contributions
for four weeks from November g.
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