The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-01-06
INTERNATIONAL
LABOR NEWS

ARGENTINA.-Buenos Aires.-An
important decision has been rendered
upholding the constitutionality of the
new rental laws, one of which pro-
vides that proprietary rights in rent
al property are restricted to promote
general well-being.
AUSTRIA.-Civil Employees. - A
widely published statement that Aus
tria has 1853, 900 civil employees, is be-
ing qualified by governmental sta
tisticians, who point out that these
include all workers in the railway,
post, telegraph, telephone, tobacco
and slat industries, which are con-
Quoted as governmental monopolies.
Those engaged in the actual admin
istration of the government, not in
GLIDING those industries, such as are
connected with courts, school teach
ing, police and army, are numbered
at 94,930.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Eight
Hour Law.-Recent DEGREES in refer
ence to the eight-hour law in Bel
gium have been modified to meet the
requirements of the sugar industry,
on the ground of constant manufac-
tuning processes that are necessary
Immediately after harvesting the
beet crop. The modification is linn
tied to twelve hours labor each day,
but a forty eight-hour week is not
to be disturbed.
CANADA.-Inviting immigration.
Reliable reports from Ottawa say
that efforts will be invested to Sc
cure agricultural settlers in selected
sections of Canada, and that these
efforts may include carefully organ
lied colonization plans of kind not
before undertaken in immigration
work.
ENGLAND.-Flat Houses in Lon
don.-Housing problems in London
have brought out demand for flat
houses of the kind used in New York.
At the present time rents are in
many cases taxes have increased to
a point where they equal the rent.
The annual shortage of houses in
Great Britain is estimated at 10000.
FINLAND.-Viborg BY Finnish
law every man is required to give a
toll of from 70 to 80 days labor to
the state each year. Exemptions
from this obligation have been grant
ed where laborers devote their time
to hunting wolves, bears and other
wild animals, that are doing great
damage to the population by their
onslaughts.
Need Skilled Labor.-Difficulty in
holding skilled labor in Finland has
grown acute. Importation from 9TH
er countries has not been success
full.
FRANCE.-Pas-de-Ca Calais. - I'm
willing to risk break with the min
ers, the operators of mines in this
district, after conference with their
workmen, have decided to maintain
the present wage scale, although they
declare they shall not be able to
make profit without a reduction.
ITALY.-Unemployment. - Com
bined figures on unemployment in
Tuscany and Emilia show an in
crease for November of II, $40, due
probably to cessation of agricultural
operations.
Cloth Workers Agree.-By an
agreement reached between the mill
owners and the syndicate of cloth
workers, Independent of the Cham
Der of Labor, work in the garment
industry has been resumed at Prato.
Genoa.-After conference in
Rome called by the minister of la
Dor and participated in by represen-
tatives Of the workmen and en-
ployers, the general sympathetic
strike in the Department of Liguria,
in favor of the metal workers, has
been terminated.
Protest Law.-The Italian Syndi-
cate of Railroad Workers threaten a
general strike upon common carriers
as a protest against the law institut-
ing penalties for railroad men who
abandon work in groups without the
consent of the state.
Population.-A general census of
Italy was begun December l. In
1914 the population was 36,120,118.
In 1919 it was 36,099,657.
Standardization and Repara-
tion.-During the month of Novem
Der 2,758 persons emigrated from
Spain and 1892 returned. Of these
854 went to Cuba, while 1,180 re-
turned from that country. Argentina
was the objective of 1856 Spanish
emigrants, while only one person
went to the United States and one
returned from that country.
SWITZERLAND. International
Labor Conference.-The sharp di-
vision between the French represen-
tatives and other constituents of the
Third International Labor Conference
was decided by the conference as
suming its competence to discuss in
ternational agricultural problems.
This decision was holly contested by
the French delegates. However, the
proposals to limit the working hours
for agricultural labor lacked the two
thirds vote necessary to passage.
Unemployment.-D the month
the total number of unemployed has
decreased 1000, and the partially
unemployed 10000.