The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-05-21
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Female trade unionists In Sweden
now number more than 10000
Italy's button factories produce
about 3 100000 gross of buttons yearly.
Truck drivers in the Texas oil fields
are demanding a minimum wage rate
of S15 per day.
The average wage Of women work
ers In Japan is S4.87 per week for u
hours work a day.
Thirty thousand employees Of the
Tatag iron and steel works at Jamal-
pur, Bengal went on strike.
Wood working factories at Jasper,
Ind, were closed, 225 employees going
on strike for increased wages.
1t is estimated that the total mem
bership Of the United Mine Workers
has now passed the $4,000 mark.
South African diamond mine own
ers have decided to limit the supply
according to the prevailing state Of
markets.
In all bur three states-Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming the
amount OF workingmen's compensation
is bused upon wages.
The tieup Of Sioux City car lines
ended. the striking workers at the
Sioux City Service company's power
plant returning to work The men
obtained part Of their demands.
Coincident with steps taken by
President Wilson to expedite an ad-
justment of the pending railroad
wage dispute, the organized employees
of the roads issued an announcement
of their intention no longer to resist
the new railroad Legislation but TO
cooperate with the government in the
establishment of permanent ma
chinery of wage adjustments.
Official figures given out by the
South Wales Coal Owners association
show the weekly (48 hours) wages
paid TO 10000 skilled miners, from
which IT appears that about 27000sre-
ceived less than S1460 per week In
July. 1914. but that all except about
100 were earning more than this In
/ November. 1918, and that nearly %
600 were in receipt Of q weekly wage
exceeding S21 90 at that time.
Announcement was made that the
the Newton steel plant. located In New
ton Falls. eleven miles west of War.
ren, Ohio, would produce its first steel
using eight mills, April J. The other
two mills viii be ready to begin opera
ton a month later. Sufficient fuel to
+ assure continued operation IS stocked
an official said Sheet steel for auto
mobile tenders and bodies Will be man.
ufactured. Construction Of the mill
began last summer
Demanding an increase OF from 371b
cents an hour to 47h cents 300 girls
in the nn1snmg department Of Parke,
4 Davis & Co, wholesale druggists, De
troit, Mich, went on strike The de
/ partment fills, wraps, corks, labels
and packs products for shipment. e.
G. Swift, secretary and general mana
ger Of the company, said adjustments
! would be made but would not predict
whether terms asked would be given.
/ He said most Of the strikers do piece
work. and that some average from
! S75 to $50 a month.
The strike Of the railway men
throughout France was settled on the
following points: The right Of men
to organize viii be respected through
out the railroad systems of France.
The railroad men accept arbitration
on points not as yet settled and an
immediate study of future rules for
railroads will he begun The com
panies will not pay wages TO the men
for time time lost during the strike,
but disciplinary penalties for nonre-
| sumption of work after the men had
been summoned VIII be cancelled. Di-
rectors Of companies viii revise other
penalties in the spirit Of justice.
Five hundred members Of the Brick
LAYERS union went on strike ut Provi
dence, r. l., tying up all large con
struction work They demand 81 =
an hour for an eighthour day tht
present scale being 81 an hour. The
contractors offer a compromise Of
S1.15, which has been rejected.
New York faced the possibility ol
false tooth famine when SEQ mem
bers of the Dental Workers Industria
union struck for a fortyfour-houl
week and a so per cent raise In wages
Strikers officials said some Of the
members worked seventy hours
week
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