The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-10-13
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

GENERAL LABOR NOTES
Canada's trade union membership
exceeds 100000.
New York city has about 5000
skilled shoe workers.
Since 1914 industrial wages in Den
mark have increased 80 per cent.
More than $4,000 sawmills are now
IN operation in the United States.
Union bakers in Yonkers, N. Y. now
receive a minimum weekly wage Of
$40.
The International Iron Molders of
America now have a membership Of
more than $4,000.
Ninety cents an hour is the latest
scale of wages granted to machinists
II Hamilton, Ont.
Stationary hremen employed in Gin
cinnati ice plants are now receiving
0h cents an hoar. -
Hotel workers in Missoula, Mont,
who toll on Sundays and holidays are
paid double time.
More oil has run to waste in the
United States than ever reached the
pefneries.
BY 1921 the American Federation Of
Labor expects to have a membership
Of more than 5000 600.
C%haufeurs in Buenos Ayres, South
America, earn On Al average Of $500
per month.
The greater part Of the textile in
dustry in New England is operated on
4 basis Of A hours 4 week.
r. J. Iears. who is rapidly coming
- the front In England as an artist,
was formerly a metal worker.
Only ~ out Of every 100 women
workers in the candy industry stay in
that line Of work for ten years.
Child workers in the United States
between the ages Of ten and sixteen
ow'number more than 100000
Guatemala manufactures annually
about 100,O0O,0O0 cigarettes, worth ap-
proximately $1s5.OO0 in American cur
rency.
City officials tn Peoria, Ill.,, have
discontinued the manufacture Of
brooms in the Peoria work house as a
result Of the agitation Of organized
labor.
During the first II months Of 1919
British workmen received increased
wages Of approximately $9.289,66S
weekly. The largest number Of work
people affected was in the engineering
and shipbuilding trades-namely, 1922
600, or 24.9 per cent-and the largest
wage advance was given to coal
miners, about 30.s per cent Of the
total.
In 1912 the steel industry employed
10000 workmen. OF this number
1880 were employed in iron foun-
dries, 1880 in iron works and 10000
IN steel plants. The per head 'produc-
ton for the year was 255 tons Of pig
iron and 80 tons Of iron and steel prod
ucts.
The average yearly wage paid to
the entire number of railroad workers
in the United States today is 81, 3
for q normal working year Of 300 eight
hour days.
The French iron and steel industry
employed 1890 workmen in 1873
14,400 in the production Of pig iron,
the production Of which is estimated
to have been 1,3S2,OO0 tons, or 95 tons
per mar for the year; and $500
wo",'mrn In the production Of iron
and steel products, producing 912,00O
tens, or 26 tons per man for the year.
Ia 1898 the average production per
MAJ for the year was 200 tons Of pig
irsn and 80 tons Of iron and steel
products.
A railway strike has been called ON
the Observation-Disclosures (Spain)
railway. A train driven by soldiers
met with an accident which was said
to have been caused by strikers. Sew.
eral persons were injured.
The American Wooden company, EN-.
ploying 5000 persons, announced II
will operate only four days a week
The four-day schedule is made neces
sary, it is stated, because of unsatiss
factory and uncertain conditions pre-
vailing In the trade throughout thu
country, due to a large extent to TIL
railroad congestion.
Owing to the shortage Of raw ma.
.terial, between $4,000 and 10000 fac.
tory workers in Detroit are out Of
work.
The labor agreement between en-.
ployers and employees in the Belgian
textile industries Of the Verviers re.
Hon has been signed, the wages a
the workers having been increased 800
per cent v the 1914 figures, effective
January I. The agreement covers oil
classes Of labor. both piece and day
rate. The eight-Aour day takes e6ec,
June !, with 81 hours up to the end