The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-02-04
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

Mobile (Ala) BARRIERS are 100 per
cent organized.
Australian factory workers receive
on an average of 5000 q year.
Forty per cent of the cotton thread
used In Japan is of American manu-
facture.
More than ssoo.oO0.ooo worth OF
products are manufactured annually In
Philadelphia.
It is asserted that England is due
for the biggest industrial boom the
country has ever had.
Artificial silk establishments in Bel
gium are employing about 90 per cent
of their 1914 personnel.
The international Union OF Brick
layers, Masons and Plasterers now has
a total membership that exceeds TO-,
900.
Hundreds Of cases Of shoes valued
at thousands OF dollars are being re,
turned to Haverhin (Mass) manufac-
turers on cancellations.
Industrial leaders in Pennsylvania
are planning to make arrangements
with the Pennsylvania State college
whereby workers can obtain college
training.
Windsor, Canada took its first step
to remedy the housing shortage when
It purchased recently 100 lots upon
which it Will build houses to be sold
at minimum price.
A mill building in which ali the
parts of the steel work were welded
with the electric arc instead OF being
riveted as is usually done, was put
up In Brooklyn recently.
The Dublin municipal Offices, public
library and technical schools have been
closed as a result Of a strike Of the
municipal employees for an increase IN
salaries, according to dispatch to the
London Times from Dublin.
The strike movement in various
parts Of Mexico is growing, dispatches
TO the Mexico City newspapers say.
Three spinning mills in Puebla City
have been closed by a walkout for
which no reason was given, according
TO Excelsior.
An increase OF 10 per cent In the
pay Of all its employees. effective July
!. was announced by the Boston EdI-
son company About 1900 workers
Will benefit by the Increase. At the
same time the company will make
reduction of per cent In the price OF
electricity for lighting to its 1150O0
retail customers.
The Italian railway strikers have re-
turned to work Internationally. Be
fore the settlement was reached the
anarchist leaders in Milan had confer
ences with Mr.. Malatesta and shortly
after the last meeting serious disorders
broke out. The strikers erected barri-
cades, round which fierce fighting oc-
Cured. In the course of the fighting
three persons were killed and some so
injured Several arrests were made.
Kansas coal miners, denied q five
day week In the national agreement,
are inaugurating the short week on
their own account The Southwestern
Interstate Coal Operators association
has complained to the district officials
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea that several local unions have yot-
ed to lnaugurate ive-day week The
association reported that the men at
two mines OF the Western Coal and
Mining company, where cars had been
spotted" refused to go to work.
The wage conference committee OF
Cigarmakers Union 81 OF Boston has
been instructed by the membership to
request strike sanction from the inter
national 70 assist the local In enforc-
ing its new demands for an increase Of
from 81 to SO a thousand on all hand
made cigars, which would mean a
jump of 50 per thousand on the lower
priced cigars and SO per thousand on
the more popular brands. The new
bill Of prices. 1t is understood, has been
presented TO the manufacturers, and
conferences on ii are still in progress
Failure Of congress to provide suf-
ficient money for the continuance OF
their services may cause a lay-off of
about 400 clerks. formerly yeoman-
cites. and now civil service employees.
at the feet supply base in South
Brooklyn, as we'll as 40 per cent of
the men employed at the Brooklyn
navy yard. The total number affected
VIII be about $500. The clerks are
largely from the yeomanettes who
served during the war The dismissal
Of the men will seriously affect work
on several vessels.
Dismantling of the Skinner & Eddy
shipyard No /, Seattle Wash, where
rs ships were built during the war
was begun. The equipment steel and
accessories have been sold to the Bard
Industrial corporation OF New York
and Portland Ore
Street car service, except in the out
lying districts, was completely sus-
pensed In Toronto when the long her
aided strike Of trolley men went into
effect to enforce demands for SO cents
an hour instead of SIS. Jitneys were
pressed into service In the downtown