The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-03-18
OTHER LABOR NOTES


Factory workers In Switzerland now
number more than 100000.
Canada is second to the United
States III motor car production.
There are 81 match factories in
China With a yearly output Of 10000
TONS
southern cotton growers have cur
tailed production to the extent Of
50 l-3 per cent.
In 1918 Canada had 147 clothing fac
tories and 1,400 establishments where
custom clothing was made
By 1927 Wisconsin expects to lead
al the other states Ia the Union In the
manufacture of paper
An attempt 5 being made TO organ
ize the retail clerks in Canada 50 that
their working conditions can be bet
tered
English silk mills have ceased to
work overtime because Of a great de-
crease in the English demand for silk
en- wear.
TO relieve the labor shortage, 1000
business and professional men OF Co
lumbus O., volunteered TO spend one
day each week on rural farms.
The miners wage record again has
been broken one Somerset (Pa)
miner drew $60267 for one month,
working eight and onc-half hours daily.
The New York board Of aldermen
adopted a resolution received from the
board of estimate increasing the sal
aries Of municipal employees 20 per
cent.
j. r. Clynes was again elected pres
idont of the British National Union
Of General Workers, at the congress
of the organization held in Glasgow
recently.
The Csvoco mills Of the United
states Worsted company. employing
800 bands. and Walworth Brothers
worste miil, Lawrence, Mass. employ
ing 300 We're re-opened after shut
down Of two weeks
our of :. 2.S07 votes cast by uuskilled
workers affiliated with the American
Federation OF Labor and the New Eng
land Workers association on the qups-
tion ot returning to work Iii he brass
factories of Waterbury, Conn. there
were but twn votes IN favor Of calling
the strike Off.
In 1914 there were about $4,000 lin
en- spndIes IN operation in Belgium
while during February of this year
out of 3l00oo in working condition
only l03 coo we're in operation There
are now about $500 workers employed
in the Gax-spinning mills Of Flanders
as compared with 10000 In 1914
The BuiIding Industries association.
co,n,,osad Of contractors employing
aboB, balf the 1000 carpenters in ST.
Lonis has announced chat only nan-
union earnenters would be hired by
its members penaing settlement OF
wage dt,pufes 4 number OF union
carpenter~ are on strike because the
association refused to Increase their
wages from ST to S125 an hour.
n Fargo y d. iii arburating d
vaaa distolfe between the Carpeuters
4 UuiDU and contractors. Judge A. Il.
Cole ruled mat the Carpenters' union
sbouId he giyen the preference by the
contractors IN the employment of men.
The arbitrator claimed that this would
he n matter Of fair protection to the
carpcpters trade" Judge Cole also
raised the rate Of pay to 80 cents an
hour.
A temporary restraining order was
issued by Judge Robert J. Tracewell
Of the Nanderburg (Ind) County Su-
perior court against furniture work
ers, who have been on strike since
May .. iie S'IiAeis , uiiioi' o,',' '','o'
organizers ana pieAe's az iol,','','ei' -"
froni interfering ~ allS ""' W. ~
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me ISSUING - ''le 80 'r,-''tie tx -
lolio"ea the sun 'i'eu y = i''' - - $
liailuias' 0iets
Federal Judge foster issueu aii u
der Whlch ~ ellecl FestIalAs ln5i,ipei