The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR


have been found in the gold coast
region OF South Africa.
The United States employment bu-
reau in Milwaukee announces that it
has more jobs than there are workers.
Three-fourths of all the coal of the
world Is being mined in eight-hour
shifts.
More than 27.0OOOOO tons of coal
was mined in coal mines of Japan dur
ing the last year
Total wages and salaries paid by the
United States Steel corporation in
1918, S452, 663 .524.
From $5s to SCI per week Is the
average wage being received by bread
makers In the United States.
Steam shovel drag line and cable
way workers in Canada are receiving
S212 per month.
The approximate number of steel
employees affected by the strike in
America is 100000
An agreement on Increased pay for
postal employees WIS reached by the
senate and house conferees, a gradu-
ated scale ranging from 500 TO 5000
annually for general employees, with
smaller increases for the aerial mail
service, being approved.
A general strike of men employed in
the building trades at Lille, France,
has been declared, higher wages ana
better working conditions being de-
manded Eighty thousand persons have
been thrown out of employment by the
walkout
The adoption by the Quarry Work
ers' International Association Of North
America of a new wage agreement
with the principal manufacturers and
producers of the country was an
nounced at Barre, VT. The agreement
was prepared at a conference of en-
ployers and union representatives.
Nearly 1900 workers walked out at
the South Chicago Shipbuilding com
panys plant, their leaders declaring the
company had failed to live up TO
promise to increase wages from so
cents TO 81 an hour. Thirty-fiye work
ers quit at the Kraft Ship Repair com
pany.
The strike in the lumber and log
eing camps of northern Idaho, western
Montana and eastern Washington and
Oregon, instituted by the Industrial
Workers of the World was called off
Mt a meeting of Spokane local. No.
800, according to report received at
Spokane.
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shorter hours, which has been waged
in Europe since the war, has also ex-
tended to Sweden. One strike after
another has taken place and negOtia-
tions concerning new stipulations with
regard to wages are being carried on
In many professions.
Wages outran the cost of living in
New York state during the month of
September, according TO the monthly
report of the Industrial commission.
For September the commission found
wages of factory workers were 96 per
cent higher than in 1914. while food
prices were 30 per cent higher
Making "A demand of $40 a week,
more than 1000 fish market employees
went on strike at New York, affecting
10 firms. Among the strikers are the
wcighers, handlers, checkers and sales
men, who have been getting $50 a
week. 1t was said six firms have
agreed to pay the increased wages.
The number of Belgian laborers out
of work, which, at the time of the ar
mistice was 100000. has been reduced
to 100000, while exports have reached
one-fOurth the pre-war total, NJ. JAS
par, minister of economic affairs, has
told the chamber of deputies. He also
said that Germany had wanted to send
an army of German workers TO restore
the destroyed regions. but that he had
refused.
All iron-working Industries in Bou.
logne, France, shut down as the re-
suit of refusal of one workman to join
the Iron Workers union. The trouble
began with a partial strike in one of
the least important works, some of the
employees walking out because one
workman refused to join the union.
The secretary of the union demanded
this mans discharge, which the mana
ger refused. Thereupon a general
strike in the iron trade was declared.
Twenty-Five thousand cigarmakers
and packers returned to work at New
York, ending the strike which has
been in progress 20 weeks. BY to
| vote. the workers accepted a 10 per
cent wage increase and a compromise
agreement leaving employers the "hire
and fire" right, with factory commit |
tees free to insure against unfair dis |
elimination. An average wage in.
crease of liz per cent was originally |
demanded.
The membership of the Mine Work |
ers' union in Germany has risen from
101 1856 before the outbreak of the war,
% 49,, 160. ---