The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-12-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


Braun, before the social reform COM
mittee of the reichstag declared that
there are not more than 11,0oO un-
employed in Germany today.
The strike Of the seamen at Bor-
deaux, France, ended. The dockwork-
ers and coal handlers at Marseilles,
however, voted tentatively in favor of
a sympathetic strike movement in that
port.
More than 80 men were laid off on
the d. I. & l., Henry Ford's railroad.
Depreciation of business is said to
have caused the management Of the
road to curtail expenses in reducing
its working force.
Probably the largest single organi-
zation Of workers in Great Britain is
the Workingmen's club and Institute
union, which has just celebrated It's
diamond jubilee 1t has a membership
of 1900 clubs. containing 100000
members.
Governor Brown announced that
two-thirds of the state troops which
have been guarding shops of the Bos.
ton & Maine railroad in Concord, n.
H., since the strike began there sew
eral months ago would be withdrawn.
Three companies have been on duty.
Union teamsters employed by the
Cleveland Builders Supply company
went on strike. The strike was called
to force recognition of the union, as
serting that union men would no long
er work with nonunion teamsters and
that the company must use all union
or all nonunion men.
A worlds record for steel ingot pro-
duction by a 12-inch furnace plant is
claimed by the Brier Hill Steel com
pany, Youngstown, Ohio. The output
of the plant during September was
6S,197 tons, compared with 6T,G40
tons. the previous record made in Oc-
toher 1902.
In Norway the peak of wages was
reached in November 1920, and during
approximately the year following de-
! clnes ranging from 3 per cent in shoe
making to 20 per cent in textiles took
| place The total increase over 191 4
ranged from 219 per cent for litho-
graphers and 412 per cent for brewers.
! Amalgamation of the 16 railroad
brotherhoods in one big union was rec
commended in resolutions adopted by
! the United Brotherhood of Mainte-
J nance of Way Employees and Railway
! Shop Laborers in triennial convention.
/ The resolutions, three in number and
along similar lines, were carried by
three to one votes, after heated de-
bate.
The policy committee of the United
Mine Workers of America reafirmed
the demands of the February conyen-
tion in Indianapolis, insisting on the
continuance of present wages in coal
mines until 1925; and the siX-hour day
and five-day week, time and one-half
for overtime. and double time on sun
days and holidays. These demands
will be presented to the next scale
conference of miners and operators.
prior to the expiration March 81, next,
of the Cleveland agreement, which
now is in force.
The new strike at the mills Of b.
b. & r. Knight, Providence, r. l., was
averted after operatives had threat
ened to walk out in protest against
alleged discrimination in re-employ-
ment against those who had been on
strike. The workers under the latest
adjustment accept a tifty-four hour
week with an increase of 20 per cent
in pay
Reductions in wages and the pro
posed reversion from the 44-hour week
to a 4S-hOur week are to be strenuous
ly resisted by the trades and indus
trial unions of New South Wales.