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Show WAR MAKES GEM CUTTERS IDLE Young Bulgarian "Women Not Investing Dowries iu "Diamonds "Dia-monds as "Usual. Special Cable lo The Tribune. PAULS. 'Nov. A curious reaction of the war In the Balkans is.lo bo found in the deficiency of employment fo thu Parisian Pa-risian diamond cutters. It seems that yomiff Bulgarian women are great wearers wear-ers of diamonds. They wear their dowries dow-ries in this form. Just as Hindoo women do In tho form of silver and roUI brace- , let and anklets. The center of tho Bulgarian Bul-garian diamond supply Is Antwerp: 1'ar-is 1'ar-is cuts diamonds for Antwerp, so the Parisian diamond cutters have less work than usual. Diamond workers of Paris twelve years ugo earned less than 510 a week, and their working day was ton and one-half hours. By trade union action they havo established a piecework rate which lyings In fixm 512 to 51r, a week. They have alio secured the enforcement of tho working work-ing conditions for which the whole trade union movement In France Is aslclng. They have a working week of forty-eight forty-eight hours and a Salurday half-holiday. Moreover, tho piecework rule- is ldenll-I ldenll-I cal for men and woincii. j |