The Owosso times., 1922-02-17
OTHER LABOR NOTES

IVooO LnllIcS, Wltn approximately t,uS"
operators engaged in running them.
The total unemployment in Italy on
December 81 was 463,10S, of which
364,370 were men and 9S,75S women.
The average pay of a workingmaD
in Russia now is $4,000 rubles a
month, or about 50 cents in American
money.
All mills in Rhode Island employing
nurses are, under the law, compelled
to hire only those who are legally
qualified.
Hawaii is SOrely In need of field
labor, and unless men are found TO
harvest the sugar crop it will be -
total failure.
In California number of state COM
missions and boards have been con
solidated TO form the department of
labor and industrial relations.
The bakers strike at Mexico City
is ended. The decision to call off the
strike came after conference of rep
resentatives of those concerned with
Governor Casca of the federal district.
Gains have been made in the num-
ber Of new men returning to work in
the mines Of the Kansas field, S21
miners having resumed work. accord
ing to figures given out by the South
western Interstate Coal Operators as
sOciation. The operators announced
that total Of 5,527 miners are now
working in the Pittsburg field.
Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indi-
ana State Federation of Labor, an
nounced that a union label week will
be observed in Indiana the week of
April II. A campaign will be con-
Quoted to acquaint the public with the
various labels Of trade unions. The
central union indorsed the campaign
and the observance of the week and
pledges it's support.
Surveying the unemployment situa
tlon in Maine, Gov. Percival p. Baxter
reaches the conclusion that the situa-
tiOn is improving, that Maine is more
fortunate than other states in having
smaller proportion of unemployed,
and that the problem Is one for local
solution. Construction Oh the state
with the coming Of spring are the only
means Of relief offered by the state.
Workers of all races in Hawaii are
considering an international organiZa-
ton among the rank and file to be
known as the United Workers Of Ha-
wall. The aim is to readjust the trade
unions in Hawaii and build up an in
dustrial form of organization that will
unite in one body all the wage work
ers without discrimination as to sex,
race, creed, craft or color and gain a
direct voice in the management of in
dustry.
Operations at the plant of the Cen
tral Steel company and the Massillon
Rolling Mill company, which with the
National Pressed Steel company re-
Gently were consolidated in an S1S,0OO,-
600 merger, were increased, according
to f. X. Griffiths, general manager.
Two additional open hearth furnaces
were placed in operation at the Cen
trail Steel plant, while several addi-
tional hot mills at the rolling mill re-
sumed.
Wages of Boston teamsters will be
continued at the present scale for one
year, the board of arbitration and con-
ciliatiOn decided In settling the con-
trOversy between the Team Owners
Association of Boston and Truck Driv.
ers' Union % of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs,
Stablemen and Helpers. reduction
of SO a week was asked for by the
owners. The award Is made effective
from January 3.
Wage cuts for workers in the Utah
smelters OF the American Smelling
and Mining and Refining company and
the international Smelling company
were announced. The reductions are
50 cents a day for workers receiving
1915 or more and 40 cents for work.
ers receiving less.
In the Scandinavian count:sg
women are invading every field i
human endeavor, including dent
and civil engineering. They ar. $50
establishing their own newspapers, and |
entering pulpits for which men can
NOT be obtained.