The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-08
Labor News From Britdin

| LOndOn.-Leaders of Britains work
ing women who are already organized
| in Trade Unions are realizing more
deeply than ever the opportunities Of
| raising the status of the women work
erS now flooding into the war trades.
| have had an opportunity Of talking
again with the woman who this year
occupies the chair Of Britain'S Trades
Union Congress, Anne Loughlin, whose
year of office will asSuredly be marked
by Il significant increase in the number
of Trade Union women. Already she
tells me, within the last twelve months,
there has been substantial recruit
ment Of women by the union. Member
ship has increased by nearly u per
cent, not including the now consider
able and continuous enrolment of
women i'm the engineering trades by
the Amalgamated Engineering Unions.
Anne Loughlin is firmly of the Opin-
ion that women workers are joining
the Unions in greater numbers because
the unions have been trying to give
effect in their agreements with en-
ployers to the principle of equal pay
for equal work. The annual confer
ence is to be held next month (ApriI
10 of delegates from the Unions will
women members: and to that confer
ence, Miss LOughlin said, a report will
be presented showing how the prin
ciple of the rate for the job has de
: veloped under wartime conditions II
is in operation now in nearly thirty
Industries.
Basic Rate After Probationary PeriOt
In the engineering trades, for in
stance, there is an agreement by whci
women who are able to do Il man:
I job independently without supervision
5 or help,are entitled to the engineern;
=. basic rate and national bonus after ;
probationary period.
A similar agreement exists in th'
shipbuilding, boilermaking and vehicle
building trades-including women il
: the shipbuilding yards employed ol
work normally done by joiners an'
carpenters In the clothing and boo
and shoe trades the same principl
, now applies. The Union of Boot an'
Shoe Operatives have negotiated al
agreement by which women are pai'
. after one month the day wage rat
!, paid to the male operative for al
! equivalent quantity of work.
= In the printing and kindred trade
there are agreements which provid
!. for payment of the mems wage Wher
women do work. recognized as men
work. Women employed as press tele2
;, raphists on the private wires of news
}. paper offices and news agencies unde
agreements negotiated by the Nationa
Union of Press Telegraphists, after
: qualifying period, are to be cOnsdere
:, to be equal in all relevant respects t
|, No. 115. - Sanitary, Trenton, N. .
s Maurice RiZZiellO, 253 Elmer st. Meet
}. first and second Wednesday in OF
Castlermini hall, Clinton and Mott ST.
:, No. 176. = Porcelain, Macomb, II
Z. Mildred Cunningham, 434 n. Monro
q st. Meets first and third Thursday i
!, Lyons building, Washington st.
No. III. - Sanitary, Robinson, II
!, Lloyd Darnold, p. O. Box 26 Meet
u every Thursday in Labor Temple.
! No. 178. - Artware, Sebrng, Ohi
+ Betty Nestor, 323 w. Oregon Av'
Meets second and fourth Wednesda
in X of Z. hall.
!, No. 18O.-Artware, Huntington Parl
- Calf. Alice Marris, 1922 e. Watche
ST., Bell Gardens, Calf. Meets secon
7 Tuesday in EfelI Club House, 2oC
G Clarendon Ave.
I No. 1Sl. Title, Porcelain and Ar
ware, Trenton, N. J. James Fraser, Al
% n Clinton Ave- Meets first and thir
! Tuesday in Falcon hall, n. Olden Av
No. observation-disclosures, Los Angelo
: Calf. Richard Swan, 341S Drew 5
, Meets first and third Wednesday
p, American hall, 227 North Ave. s.
, Los Angeles.
No. 1S4.-Chinaware Trenton, n.
q Walter II. Smith, 6G6 Princeton Av
= Meets second and fourth Monday
,f Polish Falcons halls, Brunswick an
Indiana Ave.
, No. 1S5. - Porcelain, Trenton, N.
!, Louisa Johnstone, 35S Brunswick Ave
II second floor. Meets third Monday, co
ner Calhoun and Ingram SITS.
=" No. 1876. Stone, Dinner and Ar
W ware, Los Angeles, Calf Lemuel !
: Beckelhymer, 100 West Ave. %. Nee
# first and third Friday, Wednesda
Morning Breakfast Club, Sichel an
O East Ave. 2S.
st No. 137. Porcelain, Trenton, N.
" Anne Scalemere, 80 Kelsey Ave. Nee
y second Thursday in Polish hall, Mort
II Olden and Bruieng Ave.
+ No. 1S9. Feldspar, Erwin, Ten
If l.. G. Stephens, II. d. No. |, Box 53
Meets second Monday of each mont
o. lO7 S. Main st.
" No. 190.-POrcelain, East LiverpoC
ST Elizabeth Mumaw, 1905 Ohio Av
ii Meets first and third Friday in N.
P. Of O. p. banquet hall.
No. 191.-General and China War
n, Hamilton, Ont, Canada. w. A. Gra
ley, A Biggar Ave-, Hamilton, Or
O, Canada.
,t No. 192. - Generalware, Warehous
I'd men, Packers, Decorating Kilnmen, S
IN bring, o. Arthur II. Greene, 395 Or
gon Ave-, Sebring, Ohio.
o. No. 19S.-Sanitary Trenton, N.