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Show GENERAL LABOR NEWS As the result of an unusually early decline In factory operations in IIU-Dols, IIU-Dols, the number of unemployed In the state was the largest in March for any March since 1922. Canada's old age pension bill will become law as soon as approved by the governor general, according to the tabloid tab-loid of International labor news Issued by the Department of Labor. Labor has become the largest party In the legislative assembly of Victoria, Australia, In consequence of the state elections, but Is still In a minority of 9 in the full house of 0.1 members. Application of the principle of granting grant-ing sick leave with pay to office employees em-ployees Is gradually being extended to Industrial workers, according to a survey sur-vey Issued by the bureau of labor statistics, Department of Labor. Approximately $10,000,000 have been paid out by the Bricklayer?", Masons' and Plasterers' International union since the Inaguratlon of the relief fund in 1914, the exact figure up to and Including the fiscal year ending June B0, 1920, being $9,193,348.40. The Carnegie Steel company ( wUI spend $1,250,000 In Improving - the Fsrrell (Pa.) plant About one-third of this amount will be spent to Install a turbine blower at the blast furnaces and the remainder for a breakdown mill in the rolling department. As the result of a strike of 27 log trainmen employed by ' the Cherry River Boom and Lumber company, at Bichwood, V. Va., and vicinity, 700 sawmill workers and woodmen of the company were made Idle' at Its mills, which were forced to suspend opera-tlons. opera-tlons. Several thousand shop craft workers work-ers on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad were offered the alternative of a five-day five-day week or an indefinite lay-off. Depression De-pression in business resulting from the strike In bituminous coal fields is given giv-en as the renson for the order by officials of-ficials of the company. An Increase In wages for 19 crafts of the building Industries for 13 months heglnning April 23, was announced an-nounced by the associated building In-riustrles In-riustrles of Cincinnati- and vicinity. Luborers will receive CO cents an hour and hod carriers, 07 . The Increuse for other crafts will be 8 cents an 1 hour for the first six months and 214 " ? cents for the lust seven. The William Cramp A Sons Ship & Engine Building coqipany, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, announced It bad decided to "discontinue "dis-continue shipbuilding operations and turn Its shipbuilding properties to other oth-er uses." "This decision," says the announcement of the world-famous shipbuilding company, "Is due to the general curtailment of the naval construction con-struction program and the continued depression In merchant shipbuilding." The United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at Richmond, Va., has np-V np-V held the Federal District court of West J Virginia In .granting an Injunction against anion leaders during suspended suspend-ed operations in the West Virginia coal fields In 1920 and 1921. The Appellate Ap-pellate court held that, while the legality le-gality of labor unions was established In the Clayton act, efforts of union leaders to halt production In the conl fields constituted a restraint of trade. |