Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — WORLD WORKERS [ARTICLE]

WORLD WORKERS

About 90 per cent of the German masons and their helpers are in the military service. Fruit growers of California have declared in favor of the importation of Chinese “and other labor.” Retail merchants in Los Angeles, CaU favor earlier closing and have organized with this object in view. Thirty women wearing khaki trousers are working,as pipefitters in a large New Jersey chemical plant. _ Membership of the Austrian trade unions has been reduced nearly 60 per cent by the effects of the war. In nearly all the shipbuilding plants in England and Scotland women are employed in large numbers. One plant alone employs over 6,000 of them.