Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-04-19
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

tuTerS ndVlng granted III per ceHL
increase in wages. About 1900 who
worked for contractors employed by
the manufacturers remained on strike.
The contractors, 1t was charged, were
trying to compel the manufacturers to
pay greater advance to them than
was given the employees.
Organized labor will ask the Chi
cagO city council to pass an ordinance
compelling city officials to do all de-
partment work in municipal shops.
The Chicago Federation of Labor Will
prepare the ordinance Resolutions
adopted say that only $4,000 was ap-
prOpriated to run the municipal shops,
which turned out $325O00 in work in
1915 and $622, 900 In 1917.
Members and officials of the Chi
cagO branch Of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America indorsed
the manifesto Of the national officers
in secOnding the formal approval of
the war aims as enunciated by the In
terRllied labor council, the war aims
stated by President Wilson and de-
clarlng sympathy for the war for de-
mOcracy
On account of lack of oil for fuel,
part Of the plant of the International
Paper company at Livermore Falls,
Me-, was closed for an indefinite Pc
r1od, throwing 300 employees out Of
work. Ten machines Of the newsprint
department and the sulphite wood
plants, run by water power, were not
affected.
The women Of Allegheny county,
Pa, want to be aviatrices, butchers,
actresses and detectives, but they
don't want to be munitions workers.
Out Of $4,000 women, only ten seem
even remotely interested In Shrapnel,
bombs and fuses: just 81 have had
training and "a have only the intent.
Representatives of every variety of
public employee in the state appeared
before the senate civil service commit
tee at Albany to urge favorable action
on the bill of Senator James ]. Walker
of New York, giving dismissed civil
service employees the right to appeal
to the courts.
Regulations requiring inclusion in
every contract for war construction
Of a clause limiting the daily service
Of workmen engaged In such work
to eight hours have been suspended
for the duration of the present emer-
gency the war department announced.
Organization Of the street car men
at Topeka, Kan, began when fifty mo-
tOrmen and conductors employed by
the Topeka Street Railway company
signed applications for membership in
local union Of which John Zinn was
elected president.
Secretary McAdoo has called on
American labor not to object If the
nations war policy OF conserving
credit results In curtailed building op-
erations, but to seek some other kind
of employment If necessary as a pa
triotic duty.
Four dollars a day for pick-and-
shovel men is being demanded by the
laborers employed in Norwich, Conn.
They are now receiving $2,75 to 1925
day. Formerly street laborers
throughout the state received $1.50
a day.
Thirty thousand textile workers may
become idle in Fall River, Mass, as
a result of a strike called by the fire
men in 100 cotton mills. The men de-
mand an eight-hour day, without re-
ductlon in wages, and closed shop.
The men In the workshops of the
Austrian railways have struck and re-
fused to obey the orders Of the mill
tary to return to work, the Berlin Lo7
kal Anzeiger states. The strike, it is
added, is spreading to other factories.
Ten thousand persons employed by
the Liggett & Myers Tobacco company
in ST. Louis struck for an eight-hour
day, increased pay and recognition of
the union. Twelve Industries were af-
fected by the strike.
The largest notice Of increase OF
stock to be filed In long time came
from the McKeesport Tinplate COM
pany Of McKeesport, which raised it's
stock from 100000 to $10,OOOOOO.
According to British government
statistics recently compiled it takes five
women to do the work of four men in
| the munition factories.
ConScription of wealth will be one
of the main planks In the British Labor
party platform.
Oakland (Cal.) municipal firemen
have formed a union and affiliated with
the A. T. of L.
Casualty figures for switchmen
show the percentage Is greater than
| for the armies in Europe.
Chicago business men urge increased
pay for municipal employees receiving
small wages.
The legislature of Massachusetts has
provided for pioneer work In a va
riety of fields touching upon the sub
ject of social insurance.
One man was killed in industry in
Massachusetts, every six hours last