The Jones County news., 1920-12-16
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Finland has only one linen factory.
In Switzerland embroidery occupies
the most workers-35.Ss7.
The British hosiery Industry en-
ploys in the neighborhood Of 10000
hands
Massachusetts was the first state to
enact any legislation leading to vOca-
tional rehabilitation for disabled
workers.
The average wages Of woolen weav-
ers IN japan during the last year was
40 cents per day for men and 30 cents
q day for women.
The French union Of copper and
bronze workers agreed to cut in sal
ary ranging from to 10 per cent.
effective December /.
Since 1916 no fever than 1000 new
factories have been established In
South Africa. tn the same period of
time the industrial production in
creased 30 per cent.
The pulp and extract department Of
The Champion Fibre company, Canton,
n. g. said to be the largest paper mill
in the South, has reduced operations
70 four days q week.
Conferees appointed 70 consider the
pay Of women laundry workers Of the
District Of Columbia voted to recom-
mend TO the minimum wage board that
these women be paid at least SIS a
week.
u a.4f- ..r oil
meal is given by officers of the Buck
eye Cotton Oil company as the cause
for the closing down Of it's plant at
Memphis, Tenn. About 500 men are
thrown out Of work
In opposition to radical labor unions
in Mexico, so-called free unions are
springing up in all parts Of the republic.
Leaders Of the movement hope to form
national federation capable of ar
resting the socialistlc tendencies Of
labor, the report states.
The Harvard knitting mills at
Wakefield. Mass. employing 900
hands, 100 Of whom are girls, an
nounced that they would operate on
three-day-a-week schedule. The cut
ters have only been working three
days a week.
The report of the Danish employ
ment exchanges for the fiscal year
101S-19 shows the existence of sixty
two labor exchanges. These exchanges
received 92,5s2 applications for posi-
tions and placed 25,s55 persons. The
cost OF the system was $76, 152, or
$20n per p9rson placed
All shops OF the Central Vermont
railway were closed for week, put
ting 500 men out Of work The an
nouncement made said this action had
been decided on In preference to a cut
In the working force and that en-
ployees would be returned to full time
at present wages after the weeks lay
of.
Announcement was made at the
Santa Fe railway shops at Topeka,
Kan.-the largest on the entire Santa
Fe system-of a reduction in working
hours from nine to eight hours day.
The nine-hour day was established
two months ago when there was an
urgent demand for repairs to cars and
locomotive to expedite the movement
of the wheat crop.
Employees Of private companies per-
forming public utility service, such as
street car, telephone, telegraph gas
and electric supply concerns, would re-
ceive government pensions under a
measure just sanctioned by the Argen-
tine senate The measure is based on
a similar project passed by the cham
ber of deputies, but as 1t is different
It VIII require the sanction Of the low
er house before 1t becomes a law.
Five New York unions Of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Teamsters
and Truckmen voted not to strike to
enforce demands they had made for a
wage increase Of 81 a day. The men
voted to accept the agreement offered
by the wage scale committee of the
Merchant Truckmen's association,
which provides that overtime be paid
for by the minute instead Of the hour,
and that the men receive full pay for
one holiday only In a week. The
agreement is effective from Novem-
Der !.
1t has been found that the ashes
from glass. iron and steel work and
allied industries stimulate vegetable
growth enormously through carbonic
and fertilization. The technical body
working for the restoration Of France
and Belgium has found that plant life
can be spurred by this means Of un-
usual growth. 1t is proposed that the
ashes from the industries, as above
mentioned, be used for refertillzing
the devastated regions Of Belgium and
France.
\ Two thousand men have been put
back at work in the parts department
OF the WIllys-Overland Automobile