The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-09
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Between 10,UOO and ZOOOO barrels
of paint are used each year in the tex
tile mills of the United States.
The state Supreme court of North
Carolina has ruled that bonus should
be considered as wages, and not as
gift.
During November, 1922, construction
contracts awarded In Canada amounted
to $21, $4,000, as compared with $16,-
639,800 for November 1921.
The United States census bureau re-
ports that the average wage last year
for 1916 workers in the leather glove
and mitten industry was $14.S0 week.
The board of governors of the Inter
national Allied Printing Trades asso-
citation adopted a resolution indOrsing
the American Federation Of Labor's
stand against the ship subsidy bill.
The average weekly earnings of fac
tory workers in New York state in De
cember were >$2639, according to In
dustrial Commissioner Henry ID. Sayer.
This was a gain of 80 cents over No
vember and gain of $1.48 since De
cember of 1921
The authorities are investigating
fire of mysterious origin which de-
stroyed the tipple of the Sullivan
Brothers Coal company at Carlos
near Frostburg Md, entailing loss
of $1,000 and throwing nearly 100
men out of work
The shopmens strike last summer
cost the Missouri Pacific railroad So,
100000 in direct expenses, and neces-
STATED the purchase of Is new loco
motives costing S3,000,0O0 Z. G. Wells,
assistant general manager testified at
Il hearing at st. Louis.
Ninety members of the Associated
Marine Workers, employed on the 10
tug boats of the Newtown Greek Tow
ing company, New York, went on
strike. The Marine Workers have
1900 members on 400 boats. The New
town Greek company refused to grant
the workers an increase OF $15 q
month.
Extensive improvements costing ST.
G00,o00 are to be made at once at the
New Castle (Pa) works Of the Car
negie Steel company. it was announced
by George A. Bigby, general superin-
tcndent Of the plant The money has
been appropriated Many Of the inn
proyements are to be completed by
summer.
General Manager c. l.. Bardo of the
| New Haven and Central New England
railroads announced that as soon as
details could be worked out the 1000
| employees in the mechanical and cleo
trica transmission and communica-
| lion departments, together with their
dependents, would be protected under
a huge group policy involving nearly
$7,000000 of life insurance
With spring navigation on the Great
Lakes scheduled to open about April
/, X B. Nolan, international secretary
of the Seamens union, announced that
the sailors strike for an eight-hour
day on boats controlled by the Lake
| Carriers association has practically
been called off. I'VE intend to take
! up the strike matter again before nav
gation opens this spring" said Nolan.
Organized cloakmakers in New York
city have perfected a system of relief
| for their unemployed members The
| plan provides for the abolition Of all
overtime, every effort to place as
many workers as possible In the shops
under all circumstances" and to levy
| a 3 per cent assessment for the benefit
| of those who have been left entirely
| without jobs and are in destitute con
| dition.
| The jobless in Sweden will here
| after be helped to find new jobs
| through employment bureaus which
| charge no fees, or they may benefit
| from a new system of unemployment
| insurance, both the insurance and the
| iob-finding being helped along by ap-
| preparations from the state govern
| ment, if the recommendations made by
| the social insurance commission at
| Stockholm are accepted.
| Castor county, N. O., with its 103
cotton mills, is one Of the largest tex
| tile centers in the country, and its
labor conditions are regarded as typi-
| ical of the state The mill owners de
clare that the employment of children
| under fourteen years Of age has been
almost entirely wiped out in the last
few years, and they say that, apart
| from the humanitarian and educa-
| tional and citizenship phases, 1t is I'M
sound business to employ boys and
girls of twelve to fourteen years.
At least 10 persons were killed and
more than 80 wounded in clash be-
tween federal soldiers and striking
street car workers, in front of the labor
headquarters at Mexico City few
days ago.
That more than 125,000 work
men are still out Of employment is
the condition indicated by the recent
national employment census conducted
by the Americanisr1 commission Of the
American Legion, Garland w. Powell,
national director of the commission,
stated in an address to a meeting of
Louisville legion men.
AN EXPLANATION
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