The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-29
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

New Zealand mines on an average Of
100000 tons Of coal annually.
The 1874 locals affiliated with the In
ternational Bookbinders' union now
have a membership of more than
21,OOO.
Increased wages paid to coal miners
In New Zealand are responsible for
only 3S per cent of the increased cost
of production.
From August S, 1918, to December
81, 1919, "a cargo carriers and four
army transports were launched at the
Hog Island shipyard.
Albert Rose, who has just retired
after Sc years Of service in the Chat
ham (England) dockyard, was never
late and never lost an hour.
BY putting their workers on a piece
work basis a New Bedford (Mass.)
textile mill has been able to increase
production nearly 40 per cent.
A committee of Is will revise the
industrial accident code in the state
of Washington and submit the same in
he next legislature for action.
New Jersey is f~orty-sixth among the
states of the Union In point Of size,
but is fifteenth in value of it's min.
eral products and third in value per
square mile.
Full agreement on differences on
wages and working conditions in the
Iowa coal fields was reached by SUBJ
committees of miners and operators,
1t was announced by the operators.
Ten thousand men went back to
work at New York after employers Of
two-thirds of the striking painters
signed a new wage scale agreement
under which they will receive $40 a
day instead of SO, union officials an
nounced.
Declaring that it was not their in
tention to fight union labor, but to
stop union domination Of their
plants. seven of the largest ship build
Ing and repair plants of Mobile, Ala,
announced an "open shop" policy.
The company officials in a public no.
tice announced that all union men in
their employ desiring to remain would
be kept at work.
Official figures given out by the
South Wales Coal Owners association
show the weekly as hours) wages
paid to 10000 skilled miners, from
which it appears that about $1,000 re-
ceived less than S14.6O per week in
July, 1914, but that all except about
700 were earning more than this in
November, 1918, and that nearly 10000
We're in receipt of a weekly wage ex-
ceeding S21.90 at that time.
Resolutions favoring passage of a
territorial law to permit importation
into the Philippines of contract Ia
Dor from China, Java, Indo-China and
India were adopted by the agricultural
congress held at Manila, addressed by
representatives from many sections of
the Philippines. The resolutions de-
clare that the importation of contract
iaborers will result in the rapid eco
nomic development Of the islands.
Indefinite postponement Of a general
strike Of thousands Of workers in the
building trades Of New York-carpen.
tiers, ~bricklayers, ~plasterers, electrical
men, house wreckers, laborers and sta.
uonary engineers and fremen-wa.
asreed upon at . special meeting o.
the severaa unions representatives
D. D. Glenday, general secretary d
the international Carpenters union
aid It would not be necessary for any
Dsrs men g 90 out.
BY Z survey of conditions existing II
700 fact6sies ii New York where won
Is were employed Il was found thal
~ average rate 0f Wages for the e
5si nlsuales va S1e II So per cent d III.
establishments, an arnonnt less thai
rersensz could live q decentiy Sss
49Ss IN cost II building Is High 4
lgew zesland that private capital 4
attfacfedfo tie @heStdoaS of honssl
, fhe government he asl1sumed "a
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