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Show OTHER LABOR NOTES Forty men were re employed In the freight department r.t the M., K. & T. shops at Sedalla, Vo. They were laid off January 19. In the oplniou of President nard-Ing, nard-Ing, a consistent effort Is being made to abolish the twelve-hour day In the steel -Industry. It was said at the White House that the committee appointed ap-pointed by Elbert H. Gary Is making a ciinvoHS of the situation. At present the New England cotton piJIls are not making much efforj to I tlniulate production because the price of cotton Is so much higher thun the price of cotton goods that It Is actually actual-ly more profitable for the mills to be closed down than to run at present cloth prices. Organized labor should answer re-.cent re-.cent decisions of the Supreme court with a campaign to obtain the enactment enact-ment of a law which will protect It from suits for damages by employers. Instead of denouncing the laws, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers stated In a bulletin.' The police at Cherbourg, France, are Insisting that passport regulations must be observed and state that France does not want striking coal miners from America to remain In that country. A number of men were refused admission from the Majestic and were described s miners. With the avowed purpose of meeting all legal attacks aimed at labor unions, the American Federation of Lubor added to its program for curbing the powers exercised by the courts by directing di-recting the establishment at Washington Washing-ton of a lubor defense council, composed com-posed of lawyers selected by the federation's fed-eration's officers. .The council primarily prima-rily will defend the unions against any suits that may be filed under recent Supreme court decisions adverse to labor. Due to. sharp advances In the cost of living, there has been of late considerable con-siderable agitation for Increased wages in Poland. The textile workers In Lodz have made a general demand for 50 per cent Increase In wages and mill owners have recognized the necessity neces-sity of granting some advance. A compromise probably will be arrived at without stoppage in the mills, although al-though there bus been a recent tendency tend-ency for orders to slacken, says Acting Commercial Attache Smith, Warsaw. The "Help Wanted" sign, which was In obscurity for so many months, now makes Its belated appeurunce, only to find that the worker In many States has been absorbed In agriculture or some other Industry. In fact, points out the Christian Science Monitor of Boston, "whereas within recent months there was much unemployment throughout the United States, it la shown today that virtually all workers work-ers who arc noi v!nrily Wl or on strike can find profitable employment." In two states, Kentucky and New Mexico, Mex-ico, according to reports to 'the Department Depart-ment of Labor, the unemployment problem has virtually solved Itself. "In almost every line of business," notes the Washington Star, "there Is a steady, If slow, Increase in employment. employ-ment. There Is no boom, Just as there hns been no panic; the reaction Is gradual. Just as the decline was gradual, grad-ual, and this Is more wholesome than a spasmodic revival would be." In more than twenty states, says the Le-partment Le-partment of Labor, there Is already a hortugo of workers In some Industry. In a large number of agricultural states the reports tell us that there Is a shortage of farm help. Three nonunion mines near Knox-ville. Knox-ville. Ind., were cloned following a visit of a large group of union sympathizers sympa-thizers from Pershing. The nonunion workers were ordered to leave the mines, which they did. There were no disorders. Employees of the United Hallways of Havana, Cuba, went on strike. A few passenger trains, manned by Inspectors, In-spectors, were running, but no freight traffic was reported. The strike is a protest against 0 rearrangement Of wages and hours and nffuct about 10 I 000 inch. . ' |