The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-02-10
INTERNATIONAL
LABOR NEWS
Argentina

Argentina
Labor Troubles.-A general strike
attended by extreme lawlessness, mas
been in progress in the Santa Cruz
territory. A number of strikers have
been killed and imprisoned. Chilean
troops are guarding the Chilean Dor
der.
Australia
Idle Mines.-On account of foreign
competition and the wage basis de-
manded by miners, most of the mines
of the Commonwealth have been idle
for some time past, and the opera
tors refuse to reopen them.
Bermuda
Immigrant Diversion.-Report has
it that it is proposed by the Colonial
Government to divert 100 of the sur
plus Ellis Island immigrants to Ber-
muda for manual labor, and that the
government has offered to pay pas
sage and to provide employment for
two years at four shillings per day.
China
Money Loaning Bureau.-On ac-
count of unemployment and poverty,
the Marking Chamber of Commerce
has decided to establish bureau
which will advance small sums of
money to petty traders and peddlers
and thus encourage them to engage
in the promotion of honest business.
Cuba
Strikes.-The harbor strikes at Ha-
vana, recently reported, have been
augmented by a sympathetic strike
of the cartment and truckmen. The
tobacco workers have also proposed
to strike. The outlook is unfavor-
able, notwithstanding the govern
ment's attempt to bring about an
agreement between the labor organ
izations and the employers.
England
Reduction in Prices.-During No
vember, foodstuffs and metal prices
fell appreciably, the wholesale out
distancing the retail prices in the
general reduction.
Finland
Depression in Metal Industries
The difficult financial situation, the
high prices of raw materials, and the
German competition are contributing
causes to the continued depression in
the metal industries, which have add
ed considerably to the per cent of
increase in Finland's unemployed.
France
Competition in Glass Industry
Competition of the glass industries of
Czecho- Slovakia, it is asserted, is
largely the cause of an acute depres-
sion in the glass industrial region of
France. Many French establishments
have been closed since last spring,
it is said; while Czecho-Slovakia,
which possessed over 200 glasswork-
ers before the war, has added three
more large establishments to its
glass factories.
Italy
Drought in Venetia and Tyrol. -
There has been no rainfall in these
districts for nearly a year, as re-
suit of which great damage has been
caused to the crops. Forest fires
have added to the unfavorable sit
uation.
Relief of Unemployed.-The Min
isterial Committee has assigned sub
statltial money loans for drainage,
railway, provincial and har-
Dor projects, in the hope that activi-
ties in the construction of same will
absorb many of it's unemployed per-
sons.
Germany
Continued Rise in Prices.-More
than rs commodities, including food
stuffs, textiles, metals and coal, con-
tinued to rise in price during Novem-
Der, 1921. The general rise varied
A b ,.o4r
instances commodities reached fig
ures 33 times their pre-war prices.
Peru
Demands by Labor Committees
Labor committees are demanding
that labor centers be opened, that
free passage be given to workers
who wish to go elsewhere for en-
that the manufacture of
alsoholic drinks be prohibited, and
that the cost of living be reduced.
Poland
Decrease in Population.-The lat
est census report of the Polish Sta
tistical Bureau shows that the popu-
lation of Poland decreased from 27,-
357, 1923 in 1911 to 24,406,103 in 1921.
Switzerland
Decrease in Emigration.-The fed
eral emigration office at Berne re-
ports a decrease of 1,648 for 1921
in the number Of persons leaving
Switzerland during the year.
With the exception of the textile and
witch industries, which are showing
slight improvement, practically all
the principal industries of Switzer-
land continue to be iniuriously af-
fected by the spreading Of unemploy-
ment. In November, one factory was
forced to discharge 220 of its en-
ployes on account of lack of work.