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FRENCH MINERS
MAKE DEMANDS
Fifty Per Cent Wage Increase
and the Adoption of the Eight
Hour Day!
IN NATURE OF ULTIMATUM
Possibility That Workmen of France
and Britain May Act In Unison
General New of Importance
in Labor World.
A congress , of the Union of the
Miners of the Pas de Calais, France,
toqk place at Bruay recently. The
most important, questions aeaii wun
were those of the eight-hour working
day, which, together with an increase
in wages, Is demanded by all the min
ers. Though there , Is unanimity In
making the claim from the mine own-
tr hnth th rAttk nt lnmiifu ftnfi the
I means of securing the acceptance of
" the demands were the subject of a long
and sometimes heated discussion" at
the congress; A resolution was finally
adopted, demanding a wage increase
.of 50 per cent for every section of mine
workers ; the eight-hour. day ; and that
the demands of the miners of the Pa
de Calais union should be made known
to the French railway employees, as
well as t6 the British miners and rail
' way employees, "who hare themseires
addressed an ultimatum to the French
and British governments in order that
if one or the other did not obtain sat
isfaction by conciliatory means to be
first . adopted, a concerted movement
should take place at a date to be flied
by common agreement."
GENERAL LABOR NOTES
Sixty dollars per month and every-
wing zouna win oe tne wage kvhiv wr
farm help in the Canadian2 West this
cummer. ,
' During the .first . 11 months of 1918,
2,205 men were killed by coal-mine ac
cidents, as compared with 2,395 for the
same months in 1917. , i
The war labor,: board -decided unauj-'-mously
for' the adoption of a 48-hour
week for nearly 110,000 workers lri 488
eiltf taills fa the New 'York district.
xue oemauua ox uie wireiess wpeni-
tors on British mercantile vessels for
an Increase " in' wages", have been con
ceded and the strike notices have been
withdrawn", . :Y' V 1
The first wage conference held un
der' the new minimum wage law foif
women in4 private employ; in . the' Dis
trict of Columbia reported, a minimum
wage of $15.50 per week." , ' . ; -'For
the first time in-the history of
Winona, Minn., a union labor ticket
was successful at the 'polls and elect
ed Julius Protz, union wagon sop
foreman, as mayor. The union candi
date polled 1810 votes against 1,369
for his opponent, W. F. Kohler, presi
dent Of the Minnesota Harness com
pany, well-to-do manufacturer.
, The governor of New York indorses
the minimum wage bill for women, one
of -the six measures comprising the so
called woman's legislative program ad
vocated by, various ' women's organiza
tions. The governor sent his indorse
ment to the legislature in a message
urging that this, the Foley-Bewley bill.
receive favorable consideration.
' By a vote, street railway employee
rejected a ' counter-proposition of the
Mahoning : and . Shenango- Railway
company io their recent demand for
higher wages, by which the company'
offered to continue in effect - the parf
scale of 4346 and 48 cents an-hour"
which expires April 1. The men de
mand a scale of 48, 53 and 55 cents. '
The no. beer no work strike pro
posed for "July 1 was condemned by
400 delegates of the New Jersey State'
Federation of Labor and State Build
ing Trades council at a joint meeting.
The- delegates, ..however, . adopted res
olutions urging congress to repeal both
wartime and permanent, prohibition
and calling on President; Wilson . for
aid, ; . -
' The ballot of the Welsh miners gives
a majority of 123,127 in favor of ac
cepting the report of the commission
which, headed by Jtfstlce Sankey, rec
ommended - improvements In working
conditions. The vote was : For ac
ceptance, 142,556; against, 19,429. Oth
er mining districts similarly have ap
proved the report. This, it is believed,
assures the acceptance of the commis
sion's .recommendations by the miners'
convention. . . ? . r
The carpenters' strike at New York
was settled when Supreme Court Jus
tice Dugro, umpire,, rendered a decision
which was accepted . by both sides.
Carpenters in and around New York
. will get jua Increase, hut not the $1 a
day increase they asked. Until July
1 carpenters employed on shop work
shall receive $5.50 a day and those on
xne ouisiae a. Aiier mat aate tney
shall get $5.75 for shop work and $6.25
j for outside work. 1 f J
Employees of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company, who are members pf
the Amalgamated Association ' of
street and Electric Railway Employees
of America, voted to postpone indefi
nitely a strike to enforce demands for
higher wages, shorter working hours
and recognition of their union.
Postmaster ' General Burleson said
in an interview that increases in tele
phone and telegraph - rates provided
only for, advances in the wages, of em
ployees granted or contemplated and
for greater 'cost of material and sup
plies and that no part of the increases
benefit owners of the systems.
XEVENTHAIr IN NEW YORK.
Business Agent of Capmakers
t. Attends Convention.
Benjamin Leventhal, business agent of
the New Haven Local of the United
Cloth Hat and " Cap Makers of North
America, was in New York this week
as a delegate to the biennial convention
cf the orsranization. At the last meet
ing of the New Haven union; the meet
ing gave him instructions upon several
matters. ,The union will meet tonight
and choose a delegate to the annual
convention of .the' Connecticut Federa
tion of Labor at Meriden. -
DECREASE IN WAGES SHOWN
Reduction of Hour Responsible for
New York Factory Workers Mak
ing Less Than Formerly.
The bureau of statistics of the New
York state Industrial commission re-"
ports that factory wages In the state
from January to February declined 5
per cent, due, so It is believed, to re
duction In working time rather than
In rates of payment. During that same
time In which earnings In general have
decreased 4 per cent, the cost of food,
retail, has declined 7 per cent. In
December and January together, it Is
said, earnings decreased 5 per cent
and the cost of food 8 per cent.
The most noticeable decrease in
wages, the report says, were in the
textile and metal industries, being 9
and 10 per cent ' respectively. The
firearms group, however, shows an in
creased wage of 26 per cent in Febru
ary over January. The entire wage
output for the month of February is
said to have been 14 per cent greater
Tfian that of February, 1918, and 33
per cent greater than that of Febru
ary. 1917. '
OF INTEREST TO WORKERS
The output of the coal mines in
Great Britain during 1918 amounted to
over 227,987,000. ,
Thirty1 thousand Italian workmen
are to' be sent to France to work in
the devastated regions.
Great Britain ljas over 50,000 boot
and " shoe workers, all of whom are
now employed on full time.
' There is little opposition on the' part
of omplbyers to the demand of ' horse
shoers in Cincinnati for an eight-hanr
day: " - - r
Cereal mill workers in Cincinnati are
being1 organized by the international
Union of United Brewery, Cereal and
Soft-Drink Workers.
i Oga'hiKed cooks waiters and' wait
resses in El Paso, Tex., have secured
a new wage scale which makes no dis
crimination' because of" sex.
The average wages of laborers ; in
the factories of India during the last
year were generally somewhat lower
than the wages of workers not in fac
tories. . ( ' . ;' ;
Woman organizer of the State Fed
eration of Labor, and the labor coun
cil in' Seattle, Wash.have issued an
appeal to workfngwomen to join the
trade union movement.
' A new shipyard5 will be established
in St. Louis, employing about 400 per
sons; to build the four setf-propelled
barges to be used by the government
service :on the' Warrior river section
of the Mississippi-Warrior waterways.
The four barges will cost $1,000,000.
A wage scale of $6 a day (or three
years for 150 cutters and quarry men
in the granite' quarries at West Sulli
van1 and Franklin, Me., was announced
by the quarry owners. This is an ad
vance of $1.75 a day. The paving cut
ters, who are paid for piecework have
not yet submitted their schedule. .J'
Both houses or the Iowa legislature
passed' a bill reducing from ten . to
eight the hours - of labor for children
under sixteen years of age. Where
part-time schools are established, the
weekly limit is reduced from 48. to 40
hours. The bill also provides that chil
dren must not be employed before 7
a. m. or after 6 p. m.
The union printing pressmen of New
York wil make a demand upon their
employers , for a 44-hour work week
and an , Increase of 23, per cent in
wages to become effective October 1,
according to a decision made at the
rseml-annual conference of the New
York; State League of Printing Press
men and Assistants' unions held at
Rochester. '
Equal representation1 for ; working-
men and Women with their employers In
the textile industries of Philadelphia
Is one of the basic policies of the new
man-and-management textile council
just organized in the Quaker city. The
council was formed f or .theprlmory
purpose of solving labor "troubles, In-,
dustrlal readjustments ana employ
ment problems. It represents indus
tries in the textile groups employing
fully 150,000 men and women.
An eight-hour bill for all classes of
Swedish labor is now ready to be in
troduced Into parliament. Special leg
islation will be necessary for seamen
and for workers iff mines. The pro
posals, If passed, will come into force
June 1, 1920, and lapse December 31,
1923. ' The immediate effect of the
proposed bill is an enormous fall in the
price of stocks, as manufacturers as
sert that wages now' being paid will
make it Impossible for Swedish fac
tories to continue production.
. It Is Stated that the Australian coal
mine owners have agreed to increase
miners' wages 22 per cent and that
the commonwealth government, simul
taneously, has sanctioned an increase
in the price of coal. The premier 6f
New South Wales objects to the new
arrangement, saying it would cost New
South Wales $500,000 annually. Act
ingPremier Watt of Australia; how
ever, says the coal . shortage is grave
and opposition by New South Wales
may result in the "most serious dislo
cation of. the Industry Australia has
ever seen.
The executive committee of Duluth
and St. Louis county readjustment
committee favored granting striking
bricklayers $1 an hour.. Before the
war the men got 85 cents, and for the
past year 90 cents. The contractors
agreed to accept recommendations of
the committee.
More than 5,000 workers in cigar
factories at Tampa, FlaM were placed
on half time to prevent them, accord
ing to the manufacturers, from rally
ing to the support of several thousand
workmen in 22 other plants, who, de
manding installation of electric eleva
tors, recently went on strike.
VICTORY LOAN.
Permanent Record of Connecti
cut's Work to Be Compiled.
A permanent record of the support
given the Victory Liberty loan by each
Connecticut community will be con
tained in a history of Connecticut's suc
cessful efforts in the five Liberty loan
drives, according to announcement made
by W. H. Putnam, chairman of the
Connecticut Liberty loan committee.
This uniaue and interesting chapter of
Connecticut's war contribution will be
compiled: by Frank G. Macomber, state
director of publicity, who has been ap
"UN-CHRISTIAN,
UN-AMERICAN"
E. F. Albee, President of Keith
VUlUllr, UUIO U1U1B UU M.
Work in His Theatres
Vaudeville performers in the Keith
theatres have received orders from
Edward F. Albee, president of the
B. F. Keith circuit, prohibiting them
from any slurring reference to the
work of the Y. M. C. A. overseas.
"Un-American, ufi-Christianlike and
a blot upon the intelligence and upon
our gratitude tor what the organiza
tkn has done," is the way in which
Mr. Albee stigmatizes criticism of the
Y. M. C A. in a letter addressed by
him to A. G. Knebel associate general
secretary of the "Y War Work Coun
cil. He bases the. statements in his let
ter upon information obtained by him
self and the employes of his theaters
throughout the country in conversa
tion with thousand of soldiers. Mr.
Albee declares that he personally
knows "of the high esteem in which
the theatrical profession holds the Y.
M. C. A. and all kindred institutions
that have done so much from the be
ginning of the wari in the foreign
countries.
He speaks also of the assistance
that actors and. artists have so freely
rendered and ' are still rendering, to
the Association, saying: "The Theatri
cal people, as a whole," have , done
splendid work, especially the artists,
from the' beginning of the war, and
are still doing it, being active In en
tertaining the soldiers . in the hospit
als, at the cantonments, benefits of all
kinds given for the relief and aid so
cieties for our homecoming troops.''
"The Young Men's Christian Asso--dation's
devotion, energy and self
sacrifice," Mr. Albee continues," has
been so glorious and of such', magni
tude that one cannot believe that any
one . would consciously criticise its
great work; or refer to it any , way ex
cepting in the most laudatory terms.
""I have read some wonderful letters
f fonj artists abroad connected with the
Young Men's Christian Assn. who
have been entertaining" soldiers, who
deny that there is any condition exist
ing in the workings of that organiza
tion which is. not of the most liberal
and humanitarian kind. '.
"Praise has been given to the
workers of the Y. M. C A. without
stint, and to blame this great organic
zation for the short-comings of a few,
would be un-American, un-Christlike
and a blot upon the intelligence and
upon our gratitude for what the - or
ganization has done., I have : talked
with hundreds of soldiers, I might say,
through my employes, we have talked
with thousands of them, who visit our
tneatera each week, especially the
wounded, to whom we give an enter
tainment one morning of each week,
and we have not, up to the present
time, heard one 'adverse criticism. On
the contrary, there has been nothing
but unstinted praise . for the' self-sacrifice
and the heroic deeds; performed
as stretcher bearers and other danger
ous volunteer work by- those who went
abroad in the service of the Young
Men's Christian Association."
TELLS STORY OF
"MORTAL 26TH"
Y. M. CL- A. Issues Book of '
Interesting Facts
"The Immortal Yankee Division"
Is the name of a combined divisional
history, dfrectory and ' book of statls
tics of the 26th which the Northeas
tern department of the Y. M. C. A.
headquarters in the Little building; is
distributing with its compliments.
The book was compiled with the offi
cial cognizance of Maj.-Gen. Edwards,
whose picture forms the frontispiece,
and Maj. Hyatt, his aide, assisted in
preparation of the material, which is
omcaai. a. reature ia , "Zt reasons
why the YD will be retaembered 'for
ever." A chronological table of
"where the division has been" con
tains a condensed history of the or
ganization. The vital statistics in
clude 'the successive periods spent by
the unit ur the front lines, prisoners
and material captured, the total cas
ualties suffered, distance gained on
different fronts and sectors occupied.
A table shows the Identity of the
various regiments, battalions, trains,
companies, batteries, troops and de
tachments, with local organizations
of various state services.' There are
also a list of battles, the present
strength and the citations awarded
the division and its subordinate or
ganizations. The front cover bears
the words: . "The Immortal 26th,"
with YD insignia, and the back cover
announces that one's discharge
papers are good for three month's
membership in his home town "Y."
Correspondence by the Ton
Pads, February; Some idea of the
number of letters American soldiers
write home may be gained from the
jact that a single 'item passed by the
7. M. C. A. Purchasing Department
'a one month' was for 100,000,000 let
terheads. : and 100,000,000 envelopes,
which are expected to last the sol
diers three months:
pointed by the state chairman, as his
torian of the Liberty loan organization.
The total subscription raised by each
town, together with the respective quota
alloted, for each of the five loans will
be included, and wilL signify whether 'he
one hundred per cent, record achieved
in the earlier loans was maintained ahd
made permanent in the last and final
Victory loan drive.
This patriotic record will be filed in
the State Library at Hartford, as a fea
ture of Connecticut's participation in the
war.
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WALLY THE BARBER;
W ally the Barber, for a number of
years proprietor of a barber shop on
Congress av-nue." has resnmed the trade
after being employed., for some time as
a strong man. by Fitzgerald & .Malone
In their cafe arid' gymnasium. J He is
now employed in a shop on George
street? If the Barbers' Union ever en
gages a physical instructor or boxing
teacher. Wally will get the job. He still
detains his interest in hunting and keeps
his kennel of pointers and setters.
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ports to our various organizations'
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BOLSHEVIKS FIRED.
Detroit Factories Discharge Un
American Agitators.
Detroit, May 9. In Detroit , there are
five jobs available' for every soldier who
returns; from tbe.warand two jobs for
every civilian now out of emp!oyjent
That statement-is made on the aur
thprity of Bureau of the Red Cross,
established for the purpose of finding
empoyment for returned soldiers, Every
day the office has appeals for men which
must be left unsatisfied because there
are not enough .soldiers to take the
places. . " . . . '
Not only is this true, but the rate of
pay is going up daily and is now said
to be the highest point in the-history
of industrial Detroit '
As employers have decided they will
have none of the Bolshevik element md
other disturbers the Red Cross Bureau
has an order for 350 men a week from
one f large lant.. These are to take the
places of Bolsheviki and other agitators
who are un-American, who are being
dropped from the pay-roll of factories.
If the man. behind the mahoisrany
doesn't display the button of the; Bar
tenders' union play safe patronize the
fellow who shows his colors.
will surely be attained.
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FARMERS UNIONIZED.
London, May -9. More than 100,000
British farm workers are ' unionized.
Their ojganiiation is known as the Na
tional Agricultural1 Laborers'and Rura
Workers Union. , They have more than
2,000 locals. Theyare going to have a
lot to do with improvement of rural
housing conditions too. They're urging
now a minimum wage of $12 a. week
for a six-day workinsr week of, 44 hours
the -year around. They ; would work
'unavoidable overtime at'' time andi a
half' for week days and double time for
Sunday. . - ' . "", '.
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' and Boxes.
BREWERY WORKERS' UNION; ,
No. 37, New Haren
. Gust. Beuhler, Secretaryv V
' 571 Columbus Avenue.. '
Meets every third Sunday, 139 Orangt
- - Street. '
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