The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-06-30

among the metallurgical industry and
other factory owners to make a 10
per cent reduction in all wages.
! ENGLAND: Maltese Emigration.
! There has recently been under dis
: cussion at London, between the sup
erintendent of emigration of the Is
| land of Malta and the London author
tiles, the difficult position of the
population of the island due to the
reduction of employment on admiral
ty work and the objections raised in
various British colonies to the arrival
of Maltest emigrants.
Wage Rates.-Since the beginning
of 1922 changes in rates of wages
reported to the department of labor
have resulted in a net reduction of
81, 100000 in the weekly rates of
wages of nearly 100000 workpeople
and a net increase of about 81 400 in
the wages of 10000 workpeople.
FRANCE: Reconstruction is
reported that industrial recOnstruc-
ton is we'll advanced in the depart
ment of the north, &c per cent of the
destroyed factories have been wholly
or partly replaced.
GERMANY: Bavaria.-The ma
chine industries were idle throughout
April owing to the continuing strike
in the metal trades, and the textile
industry has been in a critical posi-
ton on account of the higher prices
for raw material and the latest in
crease in wages.
HUNGARY: Mining Wages-Up-
on request of the miners employed
in the state collieries, the Hungarian
government has decided to pay them
the same wages and to grant them
the same favors received by miners
employed in private mines.
IRELAND: Unemployment-Un
employment shows a distinct increase
in the 26 counties of Ireland. Off
cial figures of the ministry of labor
show that in the week ended May 8,
1922, the number was 44,032, an in
crease of 1,001 on the previous
weeks number of unemployed.
ITALY: Sulphur Industry.-In a
resolution passed by the committee
of delegates of the sulphur Censor
tium and 200 sulphur mine operators
from all over the Island of Sicily,
it was resolved that the government
had failed to make such provisions as
would assure the rational develop
ment of the sulphur industry. Fol-
lowing the adoption of this resolu-
ton the sulphur consortium council
rendered its resignation and all sui
phur mine operators agreed to the
closing down of their mines.
unemployment. - Unemployment
continues in Venice and Venetia. and
although the total for April. 1922,
in the province of Venice was some
what less than the total for March,
1922, it was almost double the
amount of unemployment during the
corresponding months of 1921.
SCOTLAND: Unemployment.-At
no time since the strike of the coal
miners, more than year ago, has
there been as much unemployment in
the Glasgow district as during the
month of April, 1922. This unfav-
orable condition is due principally to
the strikes in the engineering trades.
SPAIN: Wage Controversies. -
Strikes are predicted at Barcelona
and Bilbao. principally among the
metallurgical workers, because of con-
ued disputes as to wage reductions
announced by employers. At meet
ings of the laborers in the principal
contors of the industry it is stated
that the decision has been to refuse
to accept any reduction in wages or
increase in working hours.
Brazil
Rio de Janiero.-According to re-
cent press reports, the Brazilian Min
istry of Agriculture has received a
request from the Protective Emigra-
ton Office of Berlin for the trans
portation by the Brazilian Govern
ment of 10000 German families, COM
prising about $4,000 agricultural la
borers who are reported to be refu-
gees from Poland in Germany.
Denmark
Unemployment-A the gen.
eral lockout has been settled and the
men in the different industrial lines
are gradually going back to work.
there are still $4,000 laborers out of
work, which is 5000 in excess of the
number of unemployed at the same
period in 1921.
Germany
Labor School.-Frankfurt has taken
the initiative in establishing an Acad-
emy of Labor, the first of it's kind in
Germany, where such members of the
working classes as have manifested
unusual ability and are thought
worthy of a higher course of train
ing than they have received in pub
lie schools are given free instruction.
The academy is operated at the ex-
pense of the State and the Univer-
sity of Frankfurt, while the trade
unions bear the living expenses OF
the students during their stay IN
Frankfurt.
Unemployment.-W the excep-
ton of the agricultural regions, the
number of Italy's unemployed is
gradually decreasing. Numerous fac
tories continue to work, either on
short hours or by the system of al
formation of groups of workmen.
Norway
Bergen.-Dutch miners. at the rate
of fifty a week, are passing through
Bergen en- route to the mines of the
Merchandise Spitzbergen Company,
which expects to ship between 10000
and 10000 tons of coal during the
summer season.
Spain
Madrid.-The closing of the tin
| plate plant of the Altos Hornos Com
pany; various strikes and wage cuts;
and movement to reduce the wages
of coal miners, form the principal
items of labor news from Bilbao,
| Santander. and Asturias, respec-