The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-06-29
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Cigarmakers won the eight-hour day
I'm 1886.
The sugar industry of Bulgaria is
limited to the production Of beet
sugar.
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph company employs a quarter Of
q million people.
About $1,000 women are employed
by 1924 big firms in the iron, steel
and other industries In the United
States.
/. The New York board Of education
operates a textile school which
teaches courses for employees in the
silk trade.
The first break in the ranks of the
British miners occurred when six
thousand Shropshire miners returned
to the pits.
Wages Of wooden mill operatives
In New Zealand have been increased
about IS per cent for men land So per
cent for ONE
The German Federation of Miners
has voted 2,5OO,OOO marks for the
assistance of the striking coal miners
In Great Britain.
Union bricklayers and stone masons
of Montreal accepted a 10 per cent
reduction in wages, terminating a
strike of six weeks duration.
All w~age-earners are now admitted
to the Boston Central Labor union ir-
respective of their American FEEDER
alton Of Labor affiliations.
The New York newspaper photo-en-
gravers' strike was settled when the
publishers and engravers signed an
agreement to negotiate a new wage
contract.
The conductors and motormen on
the Evansville (Ind.) street car lines
and the Evansville and Princeton
traction lines have had their wages
reduced IS per cent.
. The strike of 1900 employees of
Price Brothers Paper mills ended at
Quebec when the men accepted a 20
per cent wage reduction. Open-shop
conditions now obtain.
At the Missouri Pacific shops, Sc
dalia, Mo-, IS per cent more of the
working force of the shops were put
back to work. Forty per cent Of the
shop employees have already been
taken back, and the new increase will
make Is per cent Of the working force
that has been put to work again.
The New Jersey Building Trades
association, in session at Atlantic
City, criticized the advocacy of allow
er wage scale by the New Jersey
chamber Of commerce and the Manu-
facturers' Association of New Jersey.
One speaker declared that members Of
the building crafts were united in OPP
posing wage reductions at present.
Sixty boulevard sprinklers, two gar
bage handlers and 20 teamsters in the
employ of the city of Great Falls,
Mont, struck as a result of a decision
Of the city council to cut wages Of
transfers and garbage handlers to SIS,
boulevard laborers to $3.50 and sprink-
lers to 81. The Federal Labor union,
an organization of unskilled labor,
named a committee to confer with the
city council to offer a compromise of
a 50Acent cut instead of the 81 cut
given common labor.
Wages Of city laborers and team.
sters of Brockton, Mass, increased IA
months ago, will revert to the scale
in effect in 1918, as a result Of a TEN.
p0rary injunction served on the city
treasurer. Ten taxpayers asserted
that the higher wages had been paid
without legal authority, in a petitior
which resulted in the issuance of the
Injunction by the Supreme court. The
workmen have been receiving 60 cent.
an hour as against the former rat,
Of $3.50 a day.
Twenty-Five hundred strikers VIII,
have quit work in railroad shops a
Cairo, Egypt, have been summarily dis
missed, and even IL reinstated, vii
lose their seniority rights. The gen
n eral strike which has been threatene,
has not materialized as yet.
as The vigorous military preparation
Of the Argentine government appeare
Ito have broken.the backbone of
DEenegal strike movement. There 81
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