Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-06-28
OF INTEREST TO LABOR

Gait (Canada) police have received
q wage increase.
There are over 100 local trade union
bodies in Australia.
Dakota farmers are uniting to elm
mate the middleman.
Austria's trade union membership
includes 10000 women.
Women of Fife Scotland, have
agreed to provide the labor for har-
vesting the flax crop.
Sixty days leave for farm work is
being granted United States naval re-
cruits at Providence, r. l.
Hotels have been commandeered In
Sunderland, England, for the accom-
modatiOn Of shipyard laborers.
Over 100000 labOrers are to be i'm
ported into the United States from
Porto Rico and the Virgin Isles.
Congressman Cooper of Ohio fitted
himself for his present high position
while working as q railroad man.
A regiment of stevedores is being
recruited in this country to help re-
lieve congestion at Atlantic ports.
Laundry girls of Kansas City, Mo-,
have won a shorter wOrkday. The
next fight will be for a living wage.
Two million women are working on
farms in the United States, Of whom
100000 are under the age Of twenty.
President GOmpers is seeking an
eight-hour day and fixed wage scale
for shipbuilders in government plants.
Women workers in New York are
combining to resist low war wages
which they claim will be forced upon
them.
During January 10000 applied for
work to the New York state bureau
and posts were found for 5000 of
them.
New Westminster (Canada) school
board this year increased teachers sal
aries to the amount of $205,000 over
last year.
The Brotherhood of American Lo-
comotive Engineers has been asked to
furnish 80 men for service on United
States tanks.
A senate bill proposes that each
government employee to whom child
is born should automatically have his
pay increased.
The average wage increase or
33 1-3 per cent asked by railroad men
in this country would amount to $82,-
100000 annually.
Following Maryland's example, the
state of New York has passed law
compelling male idlers to turn their
hands to useful work.
Every village school in New York
state is to have a pig-raising class
with 80 porkers. This means an addi-
tional $4,000 hogs in the state,
Timothy Shea, acting president Of
the Brotherhood of Firemen, claims
that cOlored members Of his organiza-
ton are paid less than white men.
The Pittsburgh UphOlsterers' union
is conducting an organizing campaign
among upholsterers, carpet layers, sew
ers and women employed in shops
and stores.
The New York city board of alder
men has introduced a law giving the
employees of the street cleaning de-
partment the same advantages as well
organized trade unions.
The Canadian government will not
conscript men for farm labor under
the military service act, but will take
immediate steps to secure a registra-
ton and inventory of the man power
of the Dominion.
Danbury (COnn.) hat manufacture
ers have refused the request Of citi-
zens to save the town from financial
ruin by opening their factories under
old conditions. The employers locked
out their workers last May, when the
latter asked that a contract be re-
newed.
A nationwide weighing and meas
uring of babies and children Of pre-
school age began April to be follow
ed by an educational campaign
which it is hoped will diminish at
least one-third the annual total OF
100000 preventable deaths Of children
under FIVE years.