The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-17
LABOR CONDITIONS
 IN FOREIGN LANDS
AUSTRIA

Landlords U1timatum.-Accordi to published reports, landlords of the Central Union of Landlords of Vlen- ma and the Provinces of Austria have addressed an ultimatum to the gov ernment in which they demand new regulations concerning rents, and modification of the law for the pro lection of tenants, to whom they have been forced to grant pre-War rents since 1917. The landlords make the threat that unless measures are taken in their favor they will cease all pub ! lie payments to be made in connection with house property which, they state, is going to decay on account of their lack of means with which to main tain the same.
 GERMANY
 Municipal Kitchens to be Reopen ed.-Municipal. organizations III Ores den have decided to resume the giving of midday meals to persons ot small means. Those entitled to obtain these meals will be persons with house hold of their own, having an income of not over 375 marks per week, or persons not having household, with an income of 33o marks or less. These sums are increased by I35 marks tor each child over six years ot age.
 Wages.-According to-, an article which recently appeared in the "kol, nische Zeitung" skilled laborers and professional people are receiving rela- lively much lower real incomes than unskilled laborers, as compared with pre-war times. GREECE
 Housing of Refugee to the terms of a proposed law, the inhabitants of all cities with popu- lation of more than 5000 will be obliged to provide shelter for one or more refugees in each house.
 JAPAN
 Compulsory Holiday.-In order to avoid wholesale discharge of em- ployes at it's shipyard at Nagaski, the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company has inaugurated system whereby its I3,- 900 employees are compelled to take a weeks holiday, in turn, during which time they are to be given 6o per cent or more of their salaries.
 MEXICO ~.
 Appropriat:on for Workingmen's Houses.-Ten million pesos for the construction of workingmen's houses, to be sold to them on easy terms and at low prices, have been asked ot con gress by the executive of the republic
 Establishment of Agricultural Col ies-Authorization has been grant ed to the secretary of the local Labor Federation in San Pedro las Colonias by the Department of Hacienda to get together a group of laborers to whom land, financial assistance, and farming will be given in an effort to establish permanent agricultural colonies
 Immigration.-Rece press reports announce the arrival in Chlhuahua. from Canada, by way of Fl Paso, of 5000 Mennonites, provided with funds with which to start their farms and irrieate their lands on the Bustillos and Santa Clara ranches. Seven hum dred more families are expected i'll December, it is stated, bringing up the Mexican colony to 7,5oo persons
 SWITZERLAND
 Unemployment.-T has been a fall of 2,277, in one months time, in the number of persons entirely unem- ployed in Switzerland.
 Protest of Watch Industry.-At the recent conference of labor delegates from all the watch and clock-mak1ng industries of Switzerland, resolution was voted protesting against the eml- grafton policy of the Federal Council, and also demanding the strict enforce ment of the eight-hour day in the watch and clock-making industries, in order to simplify the question of re- taining employees and furnishing them | work. An additional resolution de 1 clared that in all future conflicts be- l tween employers and employees, the | latter should submit the matter to the l Swiss Federation of Metal and Watch | Workers, as the only competent tribunal
 NETHERLANDS
 Unemployment in Amsterdam.- to statistics recently issued by the Municipal Labor Bureau, un- increased nearly 40 per cent during the past year.