The Owosso times., 1922-06-23
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

The bread distributors of Paris are
almost exclusively women.
In Belgium women have been EN-,
ployed in the railway, postal and tele-
graph service since 1882.
Women physicians in Japan. al
| though rare, have been remarkably
successful in their practice.
| The weaving of cotton, one of the
| chief Industries of Corea, is mostly
carried on by the country women at
| home.
BY vote of $4,000 to 10000, repre-
sentatives of AZ British engineering
unions whose 100000 workers have
been locked out since May /, decided
to accept the employers terms.
There is hardly any kind of man
hal labor that Finnish women will not
turn their hands to. 1t is n COM
mon sight in that country to see them
working as stone masons and carpen-
ters.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing COM
pany opened its COllidge mill. Wages
and working hours will be those an
nounced Feb. 2, fiftyfour-hour
week and a 20 per cent wage reduc-
tiOn. which caused strike that now
is in its fourth month.
The Consumers league will continue
its fight for minimum wage legisla-
tion in behalf of women workers of
Kentucky, according to q summary Of
reports made at the annual meeting
and just issued by Mrs. Ross P. Hal
leck of Louisville, president of the
organization.
Wage Increases of 15 per cent, to
ore miners and 10 per cent, to coal
miners have been made effective as of
May 16 by the Tennessee Coal, Iron
& Railroad Company. The advance,
described as the<first upward move
ment of wages In the district since
the postwar depression, was made on
the company's initiative.
The threatened lockout Of operatives
in the British cotton spinning trade to
the number of 100000 has been
averted. The dispute was over the
action Of the workers at ROyton and
Middleton in the Oldham district, who
were on strike against a new wage
cut, the Master Cotton Spinners' feder-
alton deciding to lock out the other
workers unless the strikers returned.
The men have returned to work.
The Sydney IN. S. W. Labor
council, which favors direct action"
has published a manifesto i'm which
it recommends its members and sup
porters to vote for government can
didates, on the ground that although
the DOOley government is not likely to
go forward as fast as the council
would like, it will prepare the way for
the future triumph of communism in
New South Wales.
J. w. Blower, owner of the large
Hisylvania mine number twenty-five
in the Sunday Creek (Ohio) valley,
has offered his miners 60 per cent of
the total receipts from the sale of the
coal they produce if they return to
work. He will keep 30 per cent for
operating expenses and 10 per cent
for profit and, il at the end of the
year it is found that operating ex-
penses do not equal the 80 per cent
the balance will be given to the men,
Overtime in three of the big packing
plants, Armour 4 Co., Swift & Co.
and Morris Il Co. will be paid hence
forth only after ten hours of work.
according to an announcement made
by officials of the Chicago plants.
They deny, however, that the plan in
operation in any way abolishes the
eight-hour day and explain that the
changes have been made with the full
approval Of the employees through
their plant organizations, which give |
them a voice In working conditions.
Transportation was crippled and no
newspapers appeared in Rome, Italy. |
as the result of the general strike |
called by Socialists following their |
clash with fascist. Feeling is still run
ming high in the San Lorenzo section |
where the fighting took place.
Secretary of Labor Davis will make |
tour of the steel mills In Pennsyl- |
vania and other states to study labor |
and manufacturing conditions, In con-
nection with the general desire for |
abolition Of the 12-hour day in the in
dustry. Davis will make the tour on
his own initiative.