Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-05-25
OTHER LABOR NOTES


at the mines was $1,143,O ,O01, ,5O7.
An addition will be constructed to
the Royersford (Pa.) needle works
and a two-story annex to the stove
plant Of the Floyd-Wells company.
The shortest coal strike was in 1918,
when 1895 men lost six days, and the
longest in 1910, when 218,493 men lost
88 days.
The average monthly wage Of farm
laborers on April / was $32 month
So to $40 lower than a year ago, ac-
Cording to G. ]. West, state-federal
agricultural statistician.
A strike was called in Is restaurants
at Haverhill, Mass, by the Cooks and
Walters union when restaurant pro-
prietors refused to sign new agree
ments recognizing the union. About
100 persons are involved.
The pay rolls Of the three Warren
CO., steel mills totaled $4,000, COW
ering wages earned over a ten-day
working period This is one of the
largest pay rolls since the close Of the
World war.
Industrial plants normally have the
lead as a consumer Of bituminous coal,
using 80 out of each 100 tons mined.
Railroads use % tons, public utilities
tons, households 10 tons, cOkemakers
is tons.
Approximately 800 non-union min
ers employed by the Davis Coal and
Coke company at Boswell, Somerset
county, Kentucky, went on strike. In
the neighborhOod Of $40 miners are
employed at the Davis operation.
Many mine workers Of the anthra-
cite region win not return to the
mines when the suspension is over, as
they are taking advantage Of their en-
forced idleness to make ''break"
long contemplated and are buying
farms.
A wage reduction of 10 per cent Is
proposed by the Ludlow (AGass.) Man
ufacturing association. The spinning
department is now operating four days
a week. The company claims it is
necessary to reduce labor costs in or
der to meet competition.
Chicago's 10000 members of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America are going to have their own
bank, to be known as the Amalga-
mated Bank and Trust company, with
capital Of 100000 and a surplus of
100000.
Summaries now being prepared In
the statistical section Of the Illinois
department Of labor show strong ten
denotes toward lowering of the per
centages Of unemployment in the
state, George B. Arnold, director of
the department, said.
President Brophy and other officers
of the United Mine Workers are tenn
porarily restrained from holding meet
ings with miners on the property of or
in the vicinity of property owned by
four Of the largest coal companies In
Somerset county, Pennsylvania,
through an injunction granted by
Judge John A. Burkey of the Somer-
set common pleas court
Wage rates in the packing industry
during 1921, according TO Department
Of Labor statistics, dropped sharply
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ment peaks of 1920, but remained at
the end of the year we'll above stand
ards Of 1917. For men the average
wages during 1921 were estimated to
be 5035 cents an hour, and for women
S6 2-10 cents.
Nearly every industry In New York
state showed gain in employment in
March. as compared with the previous
month, the average increase in the
number Of workers employed being 1
per cent. Several industries showed
very large gains In employment and
only a few showed a reduction, most
of these being due to seasonal mac
tivity. "A
The bne big union" movement,
which President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor as
sailed IN a speech at Chicago recently.
received another setback. Delegates
to the sixth biennial convention of the
railway employees department, A. B.
OF l., rejected a plan of amalgama-
ton into one union OF all rail em-
ployees
Strikers in the Kansas coal fields
have received their last aid, at least
for the present, from the Illinois
United Mine Workers, It was an
nounced at state headquarters. Re
lief has continued for six months, IN
which time the Illinois workers pro-
yided the Howat strikers provisions
costing $4,000. Relief was stopped
because Of the nationwide coal strike.
From 1912 to 1919, both inclusive,
there were coal strikes every year.
Since 1900, the only years IN which
there were no strikes were 1901, 1908
1908. 1905. 1907. 1909 and 1911