The Connecticut labor press., 1920-08-14

| Ire IOrCe, because Iu0 IOU clLy ufC- men resigned in a body, following the failure of the council to meet their wage demands. The fire commission CTS have resolved not to reinstate any of the strikers.
 Two projects, one fixing 14 years as the minimum age for workers aboard ships, and the other assuring sailors of an indemnity amounting to two months salary in case of loss or ship | wreck, have been adopted by the In- l ternational Seamen's conference, in session at Genoa, Italy. There are 34 match factories In | China, with a yearly output of 150,0O0 | tons.
 Southern cotton growers have cur tailed production to the extent of B 1-3 per cent.
 In 1918 Canada had 147 clothing fac tories and 1,400 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 ize 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, 2,OO0 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 $6O267 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.
 J. R. Clynes was again elected pres 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 1,5OO hands, and Walworth Brothers worsted mill, Lawrence, Mass, employ ing 300, were re-opened after shut down of two weeks.
 Out of 2,807 votes cast by unskilled workers affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the New Eng land Workers association on the ques- tion 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 B, 900 lin en spindles in operation in Belgium, while during February of this year out of 31O,0OO in working condition only 1O3, ,OOO were in operation. There in the f1ax-spinning mills of Flanders, as compared with 16,0OO in 1914.
 The Building Industries association, composed of contractors employing about half the 4OO0 carpenters in St. Louis, has announced that only non- union carpenters would be hired by it's members pending settlement of wage disputes. A number of union carpenters are on strike because the association refused to increase their wages from $1 to $1.25 an hour.
 In Fargo, N. D., in arbitrating 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 J. Tracewell of the Vanderburg Und.) County Su- perior court against furniture work CTS, who have been on 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 filed by p furniture manufa cturers.
 Federal Judge Foster issued an or der which fin 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 l dow, glass industry are turning out | monthly from 1,SOO,OOO to 100000 | square feet of glass, of which at least | 75 per cent is exported. The workers l 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 | 1,5OO replies were received from con- | panies whose experience had been en- couraging enough for them to retain | women in their employ and in many | concerns to increase the number.