The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-10-01
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

1IFee~IDuFthS or all the cOal OF the I
world is mined in etght-hour shifts.
There are now more than 100000 /
railroad workers in the United States. |
Industrial deaths fell from 10 in
1917 10 81 in 1913 AM ~ in 1919, a
saving of IS workmen.
The eight-hour day has been estab-
lished in all factories and shops at
Nayaguez, Porto Rico
It IS being claimed that England is
due for the biggest industrial boom
the country has ever had
Owing to the fact that labor is en-
tirely dominating conditions In South
Wales, the coal production in that
country IS said 10 be dropping off.
The men Of White Plains, n. T..
are now shaving themselves since the
BARRIERS in that city suspended work
to enforce higher wages and better
working conditions.
III the nine months, April to De
eember, 1919 the cotton spinning and
weaving mills Of India produced 50S,-
100000 pounds of yarn and 312, 10000
pounds Of woven goods.
Milk deliveries in Manhattan and
Long Island City were almost COM
pleteIy shut off by an unauthorized
strike Of milk wagon drivers. The
strikers voted to return to work.
Resumption of operations of the
1 Brown-Bonnea mills of the Republic
Iron < Steel company, Youngstown
o., after six weeks shutdown, was
announced. More than 1000 men re-
sumed work.
Street car men employed by the De
troit United Railway company voted
to accept a wage schedule providing
for 10, 73 and rs cents on hour, ac-
eordng TO length Of service, contingent
upon the city councils action upon an
application by the company for a six
cent fare.
The General Electric company of
] Lynn. Mass. which announced its in
/ tention Of laying off $500 employees
4 because of delays in shipment Of ma
terial and cancellation of orders, an
nouneed that the plant would be OPP
i Grated in fun and that no operatives
would be dropped The raw goods
which have been in transit have ar
/ rived, il was said
The Rochester, A. Y, joint council
Of the United Shoe Workers Of Amer.
! lea announced that an its 200 mem-
bers. employed in 13 factories making
i misses children's and infants shoes
went on strike. The manufacturers af.
fected admitted they had signed an
i agreement with the Boot and Shoe
Workers Of America, and said their
factories We're being operated
Two hundred weavers in the fac
tories Of the McGin company, Union
i Hnl and West Hoboken n. y,
struck. blaming the companys refusal
to recognize the union and discrim-
| lnation against union men. The com
4 pany says the men are dissatisfied
because the slackening Of demand has
caused the shutting off Of a number Of
looms, thus decreasing the wages of
the workers.
Judge Pierce of the Massachusetts
Supreme court ordered an injunction
restraining the officers and members
Of Lodge 349 Of the International Ma
chinisfs' association from continuing
strike at the plant Of the United
Shoe Machinery company at Beverly.
The strike was called to compel the
company to abandon individual con
| tracts and to preserve to the union
the principle of collective bargain
ing"
All st. Louis boiler makers, number
ing $50, went on strike for a wage in
crease They are demanding 81 an
hour for lay-outs, 90 cents for boiler
makers. and 70 cents for helpeFs.
This is an advance Of Is cents an hour
over the old scale
Employees of the Bavis Salt com
pany, Lyons, Kan, quit work and Isl
sued a statement that they cannot live
on the wages they are paid A tele-
gram has been sent by them to the
state industrial court asking that an
investigation be made Of their situa-
lion.