Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-12
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The bakers of Guatemala have gone
on strike. They demand double their
present pay.
Harvest workers In the wheat Sec
tion Of Kansas are receiving as high
as 81 per day and their board.
In many localities throughout the
United States manufacturers are shut
ting down their plants to readjust
wages.
MOntreal's BARRIERS strike ended in
victory for the men, who demanded
$25 week and so per cent of all mon
ey earned in excess of $35 a week.
Employees of the Philadelphia Rap
I'd Transit company are saving more
than 100000 year through a coop
erative welfare association saving
fund.
The new Amalgamated Engineer
ing Union Of England has a member
ship Of nearly 100000 and the funds
on hand amount to more than $780,
100000.
Justice AdOlph ]. ROdenbeck Of the
supreme court of New York state,
handed down decision declaring that
no labor union has the right to make
itself into a labor monopoly.
Chicagos municipal government has
made arrangements with large Chi
cagO shoe company by which the wom-
en- employees of the city may purchase
shoes that are now retailing at from
SO to SIG for $3.50 per pair.
Five railroad men, convicted of hav-
ing violated the Lever act by partici-
pating in the switchmen' strike last
April, were fined $1,000 each by Judge
B. f. Bledsoe in the United States
district court at Los Angeles.
Negotiations are under way between
a large British commission house and
several textile manufacturing plants
in Austria for furnishing AustrIans
with raw material and selling the fin
ished products in the United States.
At the end of 1920 the total annual
volume of the combined automobile,
accessory and supply business will
have reached near $4,400,O00,O00, Of
which over $2.OOOOOO,OOO will repre-
sent automobiles, passenger and truck.
Sheet workers will get an increase
of 20 per cent in wages as a result
of the bi-mOnthly examination of sell
ing prices, it was announced by ]. II.
Mutt, acting for the Independent sheet
manufacturers, and NJ. F. Tighe, presi-
dent of the AmaIgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
Fourteen of. Coshocton (OhiO) coun-
tvs fifteen railroad mines are closed
because of a strike of 600 miners call
ed in sympathy with the day" men,
who demand a dollar a day increase
over the Sc scale. Operators said they
will keep the mines closed indefinitely
rather than accede to the demands.
Bituminous mines are always idle
for One-third to One-fourth of the time
in ordinary years, because they are
worked on the basis of the winter out
put. In the year 1914 the soft coal
workers operated the mines but 1876
days, an average of three and three
fOurths days per week. Even in the
banner year, 1918, the miners lost 81
working days.
A strike grips TampicO, Mexico
Street car men, bakers, carpenters, oil
workers, longshoremen, truck drivers
all walked out. Under the direction
Of the /. W. W., a general strike was
called, and street cars and hacks were
left in the middle of the streets. The
strike started through the demands of
wOrkingmen Of the Transcontinental
OH company for higher wages. The
government ordered federal forces to
take charge of the situation.
Memphis, Tenn. has volunteer
fire force, because the $50 city fire
men resigned In body, following the
failure Of the council to meet their
wage demands. The FIRE commission
ers have resolved not to reinstate any
of the strikers.
Two projects. one fixing IA 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
ternational Seamen's conference, in
session at Genoa, Italy.