The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-09-02
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Seven hundred BARRIERS In Newark,
N. j., won wage increase after
weeks strike.
Union bricklayers signed new con-
tract with Cleveland employers pro-
viding for wage Increase to $1.62 an
hour.
The Federal Reserve bank of Phil
adelphia reports decline In industrial
employment and wages paid In Penn
sylvania.
Eight thousand were thrown out of
work by the recent strike at the state
electricity commissions works at Yal-
lourn. Australia.
Joseph 2. Ryan was elected presi
denl uf the International Longshore.
mems Union of North America at its
annual convention at Philadelphia
The Labor court set up by the
Fascist regime In Italy held It's first
session; farmers and agricultural
workers appealed to it and agreed to
accept It's decision.
Chicago meat packing plants EN-,
| ployed 9.S per cent more persons for
| the month Of June, an unprecedented
| gain for that industry for that month,
1t was revealed through a survey
made by the Illinois department of
| labor.
| No city In Georgia has right to
| adopt fixed scale Of wages for pub
| lie works, according to decision Of
the state Supreme court, which had
the effect of voiding an ordinance
passed last August by the Atlanta
city council.
The widespread growth of home
work on neckties Is endangering the
welfare of 5000 men and women In
the industry, Louis Waldman, counsel
for the United Neckwear Makers
union, declared In q statement made
at New York.
A court restraining order and an
order for machine guns and ammuni-
tion figured In the first step of Ohio
operators to carry out their threat to
run the mines In the Ohio field with
nonunion labor, since no agreement
has been reached with the union on a
wage scale.
The four-day sessions of the thirty
first annual convention of the Ameri-
can Photo-Engraver association end
ed with the election of officers for
the ensuing year. Victor w. Hurst
Of Rochester, N. Y, was chosen pres
ident to succeed Charles A. Stinson
of Philadelphia.
Flotation of a $40OO,0O0 mortgage
against the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers bank and office build
ings at Cleveland is being considered
as q means of Strengthening the flnan
cial position of the brotherhood. The
two buildings already carry mortgages
of $5,OO0,OO0, but their appraised vaIu
alton is S11,OOOOOO
The $4,000 shopmen of the Balti
more & Ohio railroad who had been
on flye-and-a-half-day week schedule
since April Is, have had the halliday
restored, but have been put on four
days a month furlough, according to
notices sent the shop crafts by George
a. Emerson, Baltimore, chief Of mo.
tive power and equipment.
A proposition Of the Publishers as
in wages of $1.50 week for both da!
and night workers was under q new
contract to be In force until June !
1928. Day workers will receive 1925
Nr a 46-hour week and night mel
$3.50 for 45-hour week. The unioI
had asked for $54 for day men an,
$50 for night workers
II the Ohio miners union is willin
to meet the operators to discuss tn
competitive wage scale offered fo
Ohio mines the operators will be yer
glad to hold Joint conference, 1t wa
said at the operators headquarters {
Cleveland. But IL the union off1cia
intend to maintain their stand for I'll
continuance of the Jacksonville sea
any further meetings will be futile,
was emphasized.
The drive by employers to reduc
wages and union standards In til
building trades was scored by Joh
J. Hynes, president Of the Intern,
tional Sheet Metal Workers assoc
alton, at the convention Of the unio
at Atlantic City. Asserting that IL
union was we'll able to maintain i
position, Hynes declared that durir
the last three years the workers hay
enjoyed better wages, working COZ
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