The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-07-09
INDUSTRIAL NOTES

Ten thousand BARRIERS In Manhattan
end the Bronx and 1900 in Brooklyn
went on strike for higher wages.
All the coal In South Africa, with
the exception of some unimportant lig-
mite beds in Cape Colony, is contained
in rocks of the Karroo system.
Every mining company in Butte,
Mont, posted notice on their operat-
Ing hoists that no member of the In
dustrial Workers of the World will be
employed The notice was signed by
the mining company posting 1t.
The League of Nations labor office
announces that the second information
al labor conference will be held at Ge-
noa on June 10, confining discussion to
the affairs of merchant seamen, In
Guiding those Of inland waterways.
Formal demands for a so per cent
increase In wages were presented to
agents of all the textile mills in Law
renee, Mass, by the local of the Anal
gamated Textile Workers of Ameri-
ca.
Because of the steady increase in
the cost of living, the Knights of Co
lumbus employment bureaus In east
ern and middle West cities have raised
from S1S to $50 per week the mini
mum wage at which they solicit jobs
for former service men.
An industrial exposition to include
only Syrian and French goods has been
officially proposed by the French au-
thorities at Beirut, to be held in Sep
tember. The exposition will be held
under the auspices of the French gov
ernment.
The strike of 1000 carpenters en-
ployed In the sash, door and cabinet
making mills of Chicago ended after
a hot all-day session between commit
tees representing the employers and
the Carpenters District council. The
demand Of the men for S1.10 an hour
was granted.
Car men employed by the Detroit
United Railway company rejected a
compromise offer Of the company on
their wage demands submitted last
month and requested that the wage
question be placed In the hands Of
dlsinterested arbitration board whose
decision the men agreed to abide by.
Seventy cents an hour and board
will be the wage for harvest hands
In the heart of the wheat belt Of Kal--
sas this year. Such was the vote Of
the wheat growers at Hutchinson,
when the Kansas Harvest Labor asso-
citation held its second annual meet
ing.
Eighteen hundred members of To-
cal electrical workers union employed
In the plant of the General Electric
company Schenectady, N. Y, went on
strike. The walkout was caused by
the refusal of the company officials to
force four former members of the
union at work in the plant to pay back
dues to the union
A strike among the workers of the
National India Rubber company, Bris-
tol, r. l., begun over dissatisfaction
with a schedule of increased wages,
quickly spread to include most Of the
4,500 employees, only 500 remaining
at their posts. No demands were form
ulated, but disappointment was felt at
only a 4 per cent wage increase.
A threatened bread famine in Gin
cinnati was ayerted when the master
bakers granted the demands of the
union bakers for SO week increase
In wages. Under the new agreement
helpers will receive $27 a week; bench
hands, S33 oven men and mixers, $36
and foremen $40 The settlement is
retroactive to May l, when the old
contract expired.
Union stationary engineers employed
In the mins of the American Woolen
company at Lawrence Mass, who
went on strike for q 48-hour week
and a minimum wage of from $40 to
$50 week. returned to work. No
reason was given for the decision to
return, and company officials said they
had not granted the demands In whole
or In part.
The general strike at Valencia has
been declared off, according to advlces
received at Madrid, Spain. Previous
messages said that although calm pre-
vailed, all trade was at standstill
and even the hotels were closed and
the port lay idle. The tie-up was so
complete that troops had to be en-
ployed to transport coal to the gas
works In order to maintain the light
ing service.
More than 1900 tenement houses in
South Boston are idle as a result Of
the laboring class, which has occu-
pied them, moving out and seeking
more sanitary living quarters.
Unskilled city labor has increased
from FIVE to ten cents an hour during
the last year, and at the present time
runs from 40 to go cents, according
to the figures of A. L. Barkman Of the
United States employment service.
Considering these figures, the 20 cents
and board offered by the wheat belt
farmers for harvest help compares ia
vorably.