New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 3

| T o) 1928 MAY SET NEW RECORD FOR LABOR Comparatively Few Strikes and Lockouts Washington., Aug. 31 —The pres- €nt year is virtually certain to set a new low record for strikes and lock- outs Last year saw 734 labor disputes Produced less than 250, fewer than in any eimilar period for many years, and the total for 12 months will be somewhere between 500 and 600, it 19 estimateq | 4 That compares with a high rec- | rd of 4,450 in 1917 and an annual average of 3,500 from 1916 to 1921, inclusive. These figures, demonstrating a decrease of S0 or 85 per cent in the number of labor disputes since 1916, have been complled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They include both strikes and lockouts. Summer Sees Most April and May are always the months of greatest etrike activity, Summer, of course, time for a strike viewpoint. But this year only 59 strikes began in each of those| monthe, as against 7 and 107 in April and May, 1927, More than 50 per cent of all kes in 1927 occurred in three New York, Pennsylvania and chusetts. More than 75 per cent of them were in nine states, the others being California, Connec- ticut, Tilinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Rhode Island. SIX important manutacturing cities failed for the first time to report a single industrial dispute: Cincinnati, Mi Toledo, Youngetow Only 15 in- | volved women workers and 132 in- | cluded both sexes. Uni bor was connected with disputes and only 67 vaged by unorganized work- nces the strikers or- r walking out Causes of Strikes Demands for wage increases caus- €d 142 strikes. Demands for recogni- tion of the union caused 113. Other canses involving wages were respon- sible tor disputes, wage cuts 57 of employes 50. Many ved combinations ot The disputes in which hours or recognition figured were 72 per cent great majority of these dis. s were comparatively small, in- ing no more than 250 workers. involved more than 1,000 two of them more than end only 10.000 rger ones, howeer, brought the average number of employes affected per strike up to 476, high- un. The first five months of 1928 | ' |cording to Lady Heath, est for three years, though far below the high water mark of 1794. It appears that 350,000 workers struck in 1927, of whom more than half were in the bituminous coal fields, which saw the biggest strike of the year. From 1916 to 1922, how- ever, more than a million workers walked out—or were locked out— each year, and 1919 set a remark- ably high record with ¢,160,000. With the bituminous strike abandoned, the biggest strike now in progress is that of 25,000 New Bedford textile mill operatives, which began on April 16 Coal Mines Lead The labor statistics bureau re- ports 225,000 coal miners as divectly involved in 1927 industrial disputes and 56,000 building trades workers. The clothing industry was third with 14,250 men and women out, and tex- tiles next with 9.300. In 1926 the clothing workers supplied 125,000 of the 330,000 who went out during the vear. Some 640 strikes were ended in {1927 and the great majority were among the 734 which began that vear. The bureau saye 235 were settled in favor of the employes, 169 were won by the employers, 129 were compromised and in 29 cases the workers returned to their jobs pend- ing arbitration. In the 12 months ending with May, 1928, the total number of working is the best|daye lost through labor disputes was from the unjon jabout 42,000,000, SEES TRIUMPH IN. STORE FOR FEMALE AVIATORS Lady Heath Says Women's Sensitiv- ity Assures Success For Her Sex in Commercial Flying London, Aug. 31 (UP)--Women | should make as good airplane pilots for commercial flying as men, ac- holder of the world's altitude record for light scaplanes. and one of Great Britain's best known women pilots. ‘Flying” says Lady Heath, is largely a matter of “feel.” ahd wom- en’s hands are generally more sensi- tive than men's, “Therefore,” r: easons Lady Heath, “there is no reason why, given equal chances, women should not stand an equal chance of success against men “Many people have an idea that learning to fly a light airplane is both a difficult and dangerous af- fair. That this is not the case is aptly proved by a business man who quite recently determined to become an aviator “Pressed for time, he decided to try to learn during his luncheon hours, and succeeded in gaining his pilot's license in no more than 12 half-hour lessons. 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Probably : his most successful | business trip was in 1923, when he travelled as a “Yankee drummer,” preceding the first of his ships to make the cruise. He called on rub- ber men in Singapore and tin m:n in Penang. ' He called on everyone in the Far East, and elsewhere, why might have business. Captain Dollar got plenty of laughs, but little business—on his first visits. Two days later he re- visited each of the men he had met —and collected a few more laughs Then he obtained permission of the | manager of the Singapore stock ex- | change for his agent to write on the | exchange's blackboard the day and | hour of arrival of the round-the- | world ships in New York. The Dol- | lar Company cabled this informa- tion regularly and after its third ap- pearance on the . blackboard the rubber men decided that one of these “fly by night Americans,” had made good on bottoms for delivery and that New York had become their logical market. With the rub. ber, came tin, and in such large quantities that the Dollar line had difficulty tinding hold space The first round-the-world ship | now has seven others for company, all flying the Dollar flag and seek- ing to live up to the line’s promise | of leaving every port on scheduled time. In 1924, the first year of the round-the.world service, the Dollar ships carried $5.290,746 worth of freight from Los Angeles and San Francisco to etraits settlements Last year the total was $9,885,104 WHAT'S THIS, PROWLER WHO THRIVES ON ARSENIC Strange Oregon Critter Uses Poison | | As Proper Seasoning for | His Prey Oakland, Ore, Aug 20 (UP)— There's gold in them thar hills of Southern Oregon, and also, Egbert, stranger critters afoot than you ever heard tell of. One of them g the Prowling Wa- daloo, so named by A B. Leonard. a rancher 20 miles west of Oakland | tion industries, morta! eye, {s so ferocious and of such durable digestive equipment that he garnishes his fowl with the arsenic lard and likes it. Leonard has'been supplying the fowl, much against his wishes, and thereby hangs this epic tale. Chickens were missing regularly from the Leonard ranch. Failing to trap the marauders, Leonard em- ployed a novel method of getting the culprits by rubbing arsenic-filled lard on the wings and neck feathers of his fowls. The first victim proved to be a bob-cat. Next was a horned owl. Here the raiding halted for awhile until the Prowling Wadaloo discov- ered the Leonard chicken establish- ment. The Wadaloo left his calling card in the form of a neat pile of chicken feathers, the bill and the gizzard. The chicken itself, completely re- Ducoed the previous day with arsen- ic lard, was gone where the wood- bine twineth. The next day the Leonar¢ chick- ens were shellacked heavier than ever with the poisonous compound Came the dawn—-and still another chicken was missing. “We! said Rancher Leonard, in an exclusive statement to the United Press, “as long as the Wadaloo pulls every feather off my fowls and stacks 'em in a necat pile and leaves the chicken-run in a tidy condition, T guess 1 should be thankful for small favo: LINDBERGH'S HOME T0 LEAD IN AIR INDUSTRY [ Atlantic Flyers' Backers Sees St. Louis as Pace-Setter for Popularity. St. Louis, Aug. 31 (A—Harold M. Bixby, who took a chance on “Slim" Lindbergh, wants his home city to become the nation's leader in avia- “Within there years,” he predict- ed, “St. Louis will be the pace-set- ter in airplane industries—a posi- tion to be as coveted as the leader in automobile manufacturing—it it can hold its present position.” Bixby, chairman of the board of the St. Louis chamber of commerce, was one of the chief sponsors of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight “While we are developing air- ports, St. Louis must not lose sight of the industrial side of aviation. When cities throughout the United States were talking good roads, De- troit was angling for manufacturing plants. Of course we want fine air- ports and well-lighted routes {into the eity." St. Louis s planning improve- ments at the Lambert-8t. Louis field. which has been taken over as a municipal airport. 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