Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-10
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

During the fscal year or 1J1D-ZO
nearly $4,000 child-labor permits were
issued In Wisconsin.
The greatest zinc mine in the world,
located In Sussex county, New Jersey,
has been worked almost continuously
since colonial days.
Thirty.ive years ago there were only
125 mills In Japan. Now there are
more than $4,000 modern factories en-
ploying 100000 workers.
Workers In the ready-to-wear trade
In Paris have started protest against
the change of the Saturday afternoon
rest period to Monday morning.
A new agreement secured by the
BARRIERS union In the city Of Roches-
ter, N. Y, calls for $25 week and
so per cent of receipts in excess of $50.
All Rome Qtaly) municipal employ
ees, including the firemen, police, grave
diggers and garbage men, are on a
strike. They demand increased wages
to meet the high cost of living.
OF the Industries In Finland, the
respect to the number of employees,
the number being 19,6i5. as compared
with 21,390 in 1915 and "a, 123 in 1913.
A survey of the wages of 4,322 wom-
en- employed In commercial and indus
trial pursuits In Colorado has dis
closed that 13 per cent of those en-
ployed receive less than ST. a week
and that 90 per cent receive less than
SIS.
The Kansas Supreme court set the
hearing of the second Alexander
Howat appeal for June Z. This is an
appeal from a sentence imposed upon
Howat for violating an injunction
against calling strike of coal
miners.
The title of the act creating the
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
is broad enough to cover all its pro-
visions, the State Supreme court held
In the case against Jerry Scott. q
switchman, arrested at Kansas City
strike a year ago. The court refused
to consider other questions as to Its
validity.
The San Francisco Building Trades
council voted unanimously TO entel
the building material business ant
authorized President p. ii. Mccarthy
to proceed with organization plans
The enterprise is to be financed b,
the various unions affiliated with this
council. Shortage of building mate
rails is declared by the council TO bs
the cause of unemployment in building
trades.
Government authorities are pre-
pared to operate all public utilities IL
the city of Mexico If the threat of .
general strike is carried cut by strik
ing employees of the Ericsson Tele
phone company and their sympa
thizers, 1t is officially stated. isolated
instances of sabotage, such as wire
cutting and the destruction of tn,
telephone company's property, are re
ported.
The union metal workers Of St Jo
seph, Mo-, notified their former employ
ers they would accept 1919 wage scale
of rs cents an hour. Until three weeks
ago the metal workers had been receiv
ing 81, and when reduced TO rs cent,
quit work. The employers refuse {,
discharge nonunion men who have beer
working during the wage controversy
and announce that they have adopted
the "open shop"
In sympathy with the striking sea
men the Norwegian National Fedora
ton of Trade Unions declared strik,
of all its members except railway men
firemen and hospital workers, begin
ming May 20. One hundred and twent,
thousand persons are affected.
Approximately so per cent of tn,
car men employed by the Detroit Uni
ted railway in Detroit, Port Huron
Flint, Ann Arbor, Pontiac and Noun
Clemens voted TO accept a wage reduc
ton. The new scale viii be IS, 8,
and 60 cents an hour. The men hay,
been receiving 20. 70 and 70 cents.