Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Two new mills under construction
at Gary, Ind, will give employment to
an additional 500 men.
BY 1921 Wisconsin expects to lead
all the other states in the Union in
the manufacture of paper.
In Trinidad carpenters receive from
go cents to S120 a day, while estate
mechanics receive from 81 cents to 81
per day.
It is estimated that hardware manu-
facturers in this country are from
four to six months behind in their Or
ders, due to their inability to secure
raw material.
Plans have been completed by the
New Trinidad Lake Asphalt company
at Brighton for a model village for its
oil companies and construction work
will be started Immediately.
Five hundred Chinese coolies, under
armed guard of United States deputy
marshals, are now on their way from
San Francisco to Cuba, where they
will be employed on sugar plantations.
Philadelphia leads the world in the
manufacture of wooden goods, carpets,
textiles locomotives, steel ships, leath-
err, storage batteries, street cars, saws,
dental instruments, hosiery, talking
machines and felt hats.
The Baldwin Locomotive works at
Philadelphia employs now more than
1900 men, with weekly pay roll of
100000. Later in the year it Is ex-
pected that $4,000 will be employed,
with a weekly pay roll of $750,00O.
Appointment of a special board to
consider REIMBURSEMENT of the wages
of $4,000 navy yard employees and
to submit recommendations for new
schedule on or before August 20, was
announced by Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt.
In the conventions and gatherings
of persons identified with the lumber
industry which have taken place re-
Gently, women have played an impor-
tant part. They are said to make ex-
cellent foresters where the pursuit is
congenial.
The strike of several thousand Mex
lean employees of the plants of the
American Smelling and Refining com
pany at Monterey and Aqua Callentes,
Mexico, has been settled by the de-
mands of the men for increase of
wages being granted. The two smelt-
ers have resumed operations after a
shutdown caused by the strike.
The number of union workers in the
diamond industry in Belgium now re-
ported to be out of work is $780, out
of a total of 1900. Owing to fall
ing off of the demand for cut stones
employers are seeking to decrease
wages 50 per cent. The diamond work
ers' union has objected to this and is
unwilling to accept a diminutiOn of
more than IS per cent. The matter is
being arbitrated In the meantime
hundreds of employees are seeking
other work
Wage increases from 80 to so per
cent, an eight-hOur day and six-day
week were demanded by employees of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
and the Brooklyn City Railroad COM
pany in what was termed by the men
a modified agreement" presented to
the transit companies. The car men
are members of the Ama1gamated AS
ISOLATION of Street and Electrical
Railway Employees Of America. The
agreement under which they now are
working expires on August %.
The HaverhiI (Mass.) Shoe Manu-
facturers' association has submitted
to the Shoe Workers Protective union
a proposal that conditions in the in
dustry be stabilized by assurance that
no further wage increases be sought.
Threats of a strike on privately
owned tugs and lighters in New York
harbor were dispeled by the signing
of a years agreement, effective August
| l, between the American Steamship
Owners association and the shipping
hoard on one side and the Association
If Masters Mates and Pilots on the
'ther.