Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-21
OTHER LABOR ITEMS

AoAhpSolo WOIhcIS Ill LuSlduu lldN0
had their pay reduced Is per cent.
Cloakmakers in Boston returned to
work under the old system of collec-
tive bargaining.
The Indian government is investi-
eating the possibilities Of rnanufac.
turing paper from bamboo in Burma.
1t is estimated that there are 600,-
600 persons in this country who have
suffered vocational handicaps from in
dustrial accidents.
Forty-nine brick manufacturing
plants in various parts Of the country
were forced to remain closed during
May because of lack Of orders.
In Kansas women who perform
mems work are entitled to the same
wages as men, according to ruling
Of the Court of Industrial Relations.
The slump in the demand for dia-
monds has caused practically all the
mines in Africa to shut down, and
all the natives are idle and on the
verge Of starvation.
Liz Sli1hC VI uAlOu carpenters Ut
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has been
in effect since April 1, was settled
when the men agreed to return to
work for S7h cents an hour.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor rejected pro-
posals for national campaign for six
hour day at eight hours pay and abo-
lition of overtime in industry.
The police and firemen's strike at
Quebec, Canada, was settled on the
city's terms. These include $1-a-
week increase to police and rs cents
for firemen. The strikers agreed to
return to work at once.
The British Trades Union congress
declared that unemployment should
be a direct charge on the industry
affected and that the responsibility
for unemployment should be borne
by industry.
The national committee Of the Span
ish Communist party has distributed
widely among the workers unions a
manifesto calling for national strike
as protest against repression of the
working class"
At Montreal, several hundred union
job printers refused to renew their
contract expiring June 80, which calls
for $32 plus 81 bonus for 4s-hour
week. They demanded 44-hour
week and straight $40 wage.
Unemployment is being gradually
reduced throughout Germany. The
number of persons supported by the
state fell off 10000 in May to $4,000,
while partial support was being given
to 100000, according to official figures.
The federal house of representa-
tlves passed bill recently passed by
the senate, changing the Hawaiian
land laws SO that corporations may
own more than 5000 acres and pro-
hibiting the employment Of Japanese
on public works.
At Sandusky, Ohio, officials Of the
American Crayon company announced
that its plants would close at least
two weeks and probably longer. The
industry has been working part ca
pacity. Three hundred are out of en-
ployment.
Several manufacturing firms in Ger
many now have agents in Italy, en-
deavoring to persuade skilled mechan-
les to leave their native country and
go to Germany, where they are prom
Used better wages than they are re-
ceiving at home.
At Springfield, Mass, the machinists
union. with membership of about q
GOO, voluntarily accepted wage re-
duction Of - per cent. The action
was taken in a secret meeting and is
Immediately effective. No pressure
to bring about the cut has been
brought by employing concerns, many
of which are now operating either on
part time or with much reduced forces.
Thousands of unemployed Berlin
workmen entered the Labor Union as
sembly and demanded that all work
men who had had steady employment
should give up their jobs in order that
the idle workmen might be employed.
The president of the Labor Union as
sembly was badly beaten with black
jacks and left bleeding on the floor.
The police cleared the building after
the uproar had continued for two
hours.
Amid confusion and turmoil the con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor adopted report condemning
the Russian soviet government as ian
enemy OF labor" and with destroying
the self-government of the Russian
people and imposing vicious tyran-
n.y."
Although three steel mills of the
Youngstown district announced sus-
pension of operations for one week,
increased operations at other plants
make the weeks schedule the best for
several weeks, at about 50 per cent
Of capacity.