Vernon Parish Democrat., 1920-09-02
OTHER LABOR NOTES

during 1919, were valued at $14OO0.-
100000. A cut in the hours of farm
labor from sixty to forty-eight per
week would reduce production by %
per cent.
Telephone service throughout the
island of Porto Rico stopped when
operators and other employees walked
out after rejection of their demand
for 80 per cent increase in wages.
An offer of 80 per cent advance was
refused by the strikers.
The Hartford City (Ind.) Paper
company mills, closed for the past
three weeks by strike, resumed op-
erations. Men with a clear record,
who cared to return, were taken back
at the old wage scale. Others from out
of the city will be imported to take
the places Of those who do not re-
turn.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
authorized its president, John Fitz-
patrick, to appoint a committee of
fifteen for the announced purpose of
actively going to battle with the
United States chamber of commerce
on the closed shop proposition" and
to devise means of preventing open
shop.
The Builders association of Du-
Page county, Illinois, declared for an
"open shop" according to Norman
Jefferson of Hinsdale, president of the
association. This decision followed a
carpenters and plumbers strike for
$1.25 an hour. The builders say the
strike is in violation Of a wage agree
ment.
Linotype operators of Manila's
three American newspapers, the Bulle-
tin, Cable-News and Times, refused to
work in protest against alleged SLAM
derous assertions the newspapers
printed against Filipinos and their as
pirations for independence. The papers
appear abbreviated and without ad-
vertisements.
The strike Of moving picture crafts
men in the laboratories of the various
New York moving picture studios was
called off according to announcement
by the National Association of the
Moving Picture Industry. The strik-
ers, it was said, decided to return to
work and negotiate with the prOduc-
ers while in their employ.
Cleveland hotels reached an agree
ment with the walters union for an in
creased scale of wages, according to
an announcement of Edward Whisse-
more, business agent of the walters.
Under the agreement, WhissemOre
said, walters are increased from S15
to S21 weekly; mattresses, $12 to $1S,
and cooks get an increase of $40.
Carpenters who have been on a
strike for almost a month returned to
work at st. Louis following the grant
ing of their demands for wage in
crease from 81 to S1.25 an hour. Not
more than 500 carpenters were on
strike at any time since the strike
began, according to a statement given
out at the Carpenters District Coun-
Gil.
Union employees of the Berkshire
(Mass.) Street Railway company have
rejected a 10 per cent wage increase
offered by the company when the men
threatened to strike. Leaders said
that the men would stand by their de-
mand for an increase of approximate
ly 40 per cent and that another con-
ference with General Manager Rich
mond had been asked for
Manufacturers granted a general
increase of five per cent in the cutting
department of the American Flint
Glass Workers union at a conference
at Atlantic City. On a special line of
work known as sunburst, vineland and
stars an additional advance of 1S per
cent was granted. The shade and
globe department was given increases
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent.
Laborers for the coming harvest in
Santa Barbara county, California, are
so scarce that authorized representa-
tives of the various fruit associations
and companies have stated to Cover
nor Stevens that they will abide by
any scale of wages offered employees
that shall be declared reasonable by
the industrial welfare commission.
Laborers are getting So a day and
board.
Four thousand bathing suit workers
went on strike at New York. They
demand a forty-four-hour week, a IS
per cent wage increase over the mini
mum rates paid before the strike, a
five-day week and six legal holidays.
The strike affects 500 shops.
Employees Of the Alexander Smith
& Sons Carpet company, Yonkers, N.
z, are to receive 1855, 900 in bonuses,
it was announced. This sum is their
share In the prosperity Of the concern
for the last six months. It brings the
total amount distributed to workers
to $2,500,0O0.