The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-12-29
OTHER LABOR NOTES

OTHER LABOR NOTES
Finland has only one linen factory.
In Switzerland embroidery occupies
the most wOrkers-335,SS7.
The British hosiery industry en-
pl0ys in the neighborhood Of 10000
hands.
Massachusetts was the first state to
enact any legislation leading to
ti0nal rehabilitation for disabled
workers.
The average wages Of wooden 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 q cut in SAL
airy ranging from S to 10 per cent,
effective December L
Since 1916 no fewer than 1000 new
factories have been established in
South Africa. In the same period Of
time the industrial production in
creased so per cent.
The pulp and extract department Of
The Champion Fibre company. Canton,
N. c., said to be the largest paper mill
in the South, has reduced operations
to four days a week.
Conferees appointed to consider the
pay of ONE laundry workers Of the
District of Columbia voted to recon
mend to the minimum wage board that
these women be paid at least SIS q
week.
Lack of demand for cotton oil and
meal is given by officers Of the Buck
eye Cotton OIL company as the cause
for the closing down Of its plant at
Memphis, Tenn. About 800 men are
thrown out Of work.
In opposition to radical labor unions
in Mexico, so-called free unions are
springing up in oil parts of the republic.
Leaders of the movement hope to form
a national federation capable Of ar
resting the socialistic tendencies of
labor, the report states.
Tie Harvard knitting mills at
Wakefield, Mass, employing 900
hands. 100 of whom are girls, an
nounced that they would operate on a
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
1883 shows the existence Of sixty
two labor exchanges. These exchanges
received 92,5S2 applications for posi-
lions and placed 1856 persons. The
cost of the system vas $76,152, or
$2.95 per person placed.
All shops Of the Central Vermont
railway. were closed for a 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
off.
Announcement was made at the
Santa Fe railway shops at Topeka,
Kan.-the largest on the entire Santa
Fe yyStenl-of a reduction in working
hours from nine to eight hours a day.
The nine-hour day was established
two months ago when there was an
urgent demand for repairs to cars and
locomotive to expedite tho 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
her of deputies, but as 1t is different,
it will require the sanction Of the low
er house before it 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 q
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 fol
one holiday only in a week. The
agreement Is effective from Novem
Der I.
It has been found that the ashes
from glass, iron and steel work ant
allied industries stimulate vegetable
growth enormously through carboni'
and fertilization. The technical bod!
working for the restoration of France
and Belgium has found that plant lif,
can be spurred by this means Of IN
usual growth. It is proposed that tn
ashes from the industries, as allow
mentioned, be used for refertilizini
the devastated regions of Belgium an,
France.
Two thousand men have been pu
back at work In the parts department
Of the WHY'S Overland Automobil
company, Toledo, Ohio, according t