Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-12
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Cs%HeAOp 10 'oGNOA1u " Tic On4lCu
States in motor car production.
There are "a match factories in
China, with a yearly output of 10000
tons
Southern cotton growers have cur
tailed production to the extent Of
80 1-3 per cent.
In 1918 Canada had 147 clothing fac
tories and ], 400 establishments where
custom clothing was made.
BY 1921 Wisconsin expects to lead
all the other states in the Union in the
manufacture of paper.
An attempt is being made to organ
lie the retail clerks in Canada so that
their working conditions can be bet
tered.
English silk mills have ceased to
work overtime because of a great de-
crease in the English demand for silk
en- wear.
To relieve the labor shortage, 1000
business and professional men Of Co
lumbus, O., volunteered to spend one
day each week on rural farms.
The miners wage record again has
been broken. One Somerset (Pa.)
miner drew $6O2.67 for one month,
working eight and One-half hours daily.
The New York board of aldermen
adopted a resolution received from the
board of estimate increasing the sal
aries of municipal employees 20 per
cent.
r7rvo- sr,,c nroS, oInnAaH v,v.os
ident of the British National Union
Of General Workers, at the congress
of the organization held in Glasgow
recently.
The UswocO mills Of the United
States Worsted company, employing
1900 hands, and Walworth Brothers
worsted mill, Lawrence, Mass, employ
ing 300, were re-Opened after a shut
down of two weeks.
Out of 2,8O7 votes cast by unskilled
workers affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor and the New Eng
land Workers association on the ques-
ton of returning to work in the brass
factories of Waterbury, Conn.,, there
were but two votes in favor of calling
the strike Off.
In 1914 there were about $4,000 lin
en- spindles in operation In Belgium,
while during February of this year
out of $4,000 in working condition
only 10000 were in operation. There
are now about $500 workers employed
in the fiax-spinning mills of Flanders,
as compared with 10000 in 1914.
The Building Industries association,
composed of contractors employing
about half the 1000 carpenters in st.
Louis, has announced that only nom
union carpenters would be hired by
its members pending settlement Of
wage disputes A number of union
carpenters are on a strike because the
association refused to increase their
wages from 81 to SIPS an hour.
In Fargo, N. D., in arbitrating a
wage dispute between the Carpenters
union and contractors, Judge A. T.
Cole ruled that the Carpenters union
should be given the preference by the
contractors in the employment of men,
The arbitrator claimed that this would
be "a matter of fair protection to the
carpenters trade" Judge Cole also
raised the rate Of pay to 90 cents an
hour.
A temporary restraining order was
issued by Judge Robert ]. Tracewell
of the vanderburg (Ind.) County Su-
perior court against furniture work
ers, who have been on a strike since
May 8. The strikers, union officials,
organizers and pickets, are forbidden
from interfering in any way with the
operation of the furniture factories.
The issuing of the restraining order
followed the suit fled by % furniture
manufacturers.
Federal Judge Foster issued an or
der which in effect Restraints members
of New Orleans locals of the Metals
Trades union from interfering with
the operation of the Jahncke Dry Dock
and Shipbuilding plant, where several |
government vessels are undergoing
repairs. The Jahncke plant, together
with about fifteen other shipyards and |
repair establishments, recently started |
operations on an open shop basis after !
a prolonged strike Of union metal
trade workers.
The IS furnaces in the Belgian win
dow glass Industry are turning out |
monthly from 100000 to 100000 |
square feet of glass, of which at least |
70 per cent is exported. The workers
now toll only eight hours a day.
The Woman's Industrial League Of
Great Britain asked 5000 firms for a
statement of their experience with !
women as industrial workers. Nearly
1900 replies were received from COM
panies whose experience had been en-
cOuraging enough for them to retain
women in their employ and In many |
concerns to increase the number.