The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-12
OTHER LABOR NOTES


Investigations made by the Tokyo
chamber Of commerce show that wages
Of general laborers In Tokyo are on
downward grade.
Topeka's organized labor's cooper
ative grocery store has definitely
given up tho fight one Of Its hackers
claiming to have lost more than S12,.
600.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, Chicago & Al
ton shop employees voted to accept the
proposal Of Receiver w. g. Bird and
the strike was declared of. The men
returned to work.
Members Of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers In st. Paul and Mime
apolis have assessed themselves from
$16 to $25 each for the union reserve
fund.
A proposal for 2-cent-an-hour In
crease for the track and common Ia
bOrers Of the maintenance Of way
union, numbering about 100000, was
temporarily refused BY the United
SIdtts ldDOT DOaTQ.
About 10000 men are on strike In the
province Of Antwerp following the
agreement among the metallurgical
industry and other factory owners to
make a 10 per cent reduction In all
wages.
The Australian Labor Council Of Ac-
tion issued manifesto denouncing the
attitude Of Premier Hughes on the
Near East question and threatening
a general strike In the event Of war,
so as to prevent the manufacture Of
munitions or the transport Of troops.
The Edison Portland Cement COM
pany of Orange, N. j., announced
that 1t had put into effect wage In
crease OF cents per hour for Its
mill employees. This affects more
than 900 employees and took effect
on September 1B.
Prospects for the -four industry are
brighter than at any time In six years,
and for the first time since the war
several Of the largest milling compa-
MES Of Minneapolis, known as the
worlds largest -four producers, are op-
Grating at normal capacity.
Potteries of the country closed Oc-
tober 1. The manufacturers took the
position that they will accept, instead
Of attempting to resist, or to have re-
considered, the minority vote by which
the National Brotherhood Of Opera
tive Potters declared for q strike on
that date, to force restoring Of the
per cent wage cut the workers ac-
cepted last November.
Proposed establishment Of zone or
auxiliary trade schools was indorsed
by the twenty-ninth biennial conven-
tion Of the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants Union of
North America at Knoxville, Tenn.
Manufacturers Of printing machinery
and supplies will be expected to CO.
operate, as was done at the Des
Moines branch school
The Sailors Union of the Great
Lakes, which ordered its members on
boats of the Lake Carriers association
to strike on October /, sent a tele-
gram to Secretary Of Commerce Hoov-
er asking that the government take
steps to prevent the associations boats
from violating the seaman's law, K. B.
Nolan, secretary Of the sailors union,
announced.
With the construction OF a $125,O0O
addition to the Union Printers home,
authorized by the board Of trustees,
the home viii be enabled to care for
sufferers from locomotor ataxia, pa
ralysis and like ailments, Superin-
tendent John @. Daley of the home an
nounced. Heretofore the institution
which is operated by the International
Typographical union. has barred such
cases.
The French Seamen's confederation
has proposed that q commission Of
chip owners and employees be named
to study the present dispute over the
eight-hour law. IL unable TO agree on
solution of the difficulty the commits
sion will name two arbitrators and the
confederation two, these four to select
fifth. Both ship owners and en-
ployees will bind themselves to accept
the decision Of the commission or arbi-
traitors.
Wages Of certain classes OF male
and female workers employed in the
button trade in London have been re-
duced by the trade board controlling
the industry. A gain was shown for
four out of seven industries, and for
the city as whole. The plants are
operating at about rs per cent OF nor
NAL capacity.
The Fort Smith and Western rail-
road signed an agreement with its
striking shopmen, and they returned
to work. United States Marshal Hen