The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-11-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Workers in the 35-cents-a- pound
Cuban sugar fields receive So day.
Thirty-three per cent of the workers
In italian automobile factories are
women.
Germany has greater number OF
women wage -earners than any other
country.
More than 100000 OF the worlds
T,S440o0 automobiles are now made in
the United States.
Eighty-seven per cent OF all former
Austro-Hungarian mills are located In
the Czeeho-Slovak republic.
The average weekly wage in the
automobile industry In the United
States last year was $25.71.
Farm workers in England are now
receiving rs high as $3.50 year in ad-
dltion TO board and lodging
BY the end OF July 1t is expected
that no less than 1000 clerks win have
been dropped from the pay rolls of the
United States war department
The number Of miners in Belgium,
underground and surface, was 1911
In December, 1919, and 157, ,535 In Janu-
ary, 1920. a diminution OF 176, or i
per cent.
Discomfort Is manifested by the Ger
man working classes over the new
wages tax Of 10 per cent. which is to
be collected at the source Of income.
The 1000 car men employed by the
Boston Elevated Railway company
have been granted wage increase OF
16 % per cent, which Is, in most cases,
equivalent to an advance OF 10 cents
an hour.
Laborers In customs houses may re-
ceive an Increase in pay Of about 5000
year II President Wilson acts IA
vorably upon an appeal for the In
crease sent him by the National Fed
GRAFTON of Federal Employees
Leaders Of 1000 strikers in the Lee
gun district, state Of Coahulla, Mex,
who have been under arrest, have
been freed on orders from Gen. P.
Elias Gales according to newspaper
advices
Strikes and lockouts reported to the
British ministry of labor during 1919
numbered 1,413. The number OF work
people directly or indirectly affected
was about 2,58o0O0, and the aggregate
duration Of the disputes was about a.
10000 working days.
The minimum wage law providing
%rAv h. !.
women employed In the District OF Co
lumbia Is constitutional, In the opin-
ion Of Associate Justice Bailey of the
District Supreme court, who filed a
memorandum in court to that effect.
Warrants charging 65 striking mem
bers Of the San Francisco Yardmen's
association with violation OF the Lever
food law by alleged participation in
the "insurgent strike" last April were
served at a mass meeting OF the men
by United States marshal.
The commission of the International
Seamen's conference which has been
examining into the question OF an
eight-hour day and 48-hour week on
shipboard today voted II to 13 In favor
Of the proposition Those opposed to
the measure were government dele
gates from England, India, Norway and
sweden. and nine delegates represent
Ing the ship owners. Those IN favor
Of the proposal we're the government
delegates Of France Germany, Hol-
land, japan, Italy, Spain, French ship
owners delegates and ten seamen's del
egates.
Employees Of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company are saving more than
100000 a year through a Cooperative
Welfare association savings fund
New Orleans was without street car
service as result Of strike Of the
1900 employees Of the New Orleans
Railway and Light company, which fol
lowed a failure OF the union workers
and the federal receiver for the com
pany to reach an agreement as to
wages. Deputy United States mar
shals were guarding the gas and cleo
tric light plants, car barns and rolling
stock
On Trial.