Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-02-22
That Is the Demand Formulated
by the Brotherhoods of
Rai!roaderS.
ALL NATIONS LINES INVOLVED
Answer to Proposal Is Asked to Be
Made not Later Than Dec. 81
General News of Interest
In Labor World.

lie their demands for an increase OF
40 per cent in pay. w. G.
Lee, president of the brotherhood OF,
Railroad Trainmen, and A. B. Garrett
son. president Of the Order of Railway |
Conductors, signed the wage schedule
which virtually every railroad i'll the.
United States is asked to approve. re-
quest that an answer to the proposal be
made in writing to the general chair
men of the labor organizations on or
before December 81, 1917, accompanies
the schedule. Article A of the sched-
ule deals with the passenger service.
Trains propelled by steam or other mo-
tive power on runs of 155 miles or less |
day are the basis of reckoning. 1t IS
asked that conductors receive not less
than 3.5 cents mile, $5.43 day, or
of $116.40 a month; fiagmen and brake
than 2.5 cents a mile, $3.S8 a day
or Sl16.40 q month f1agmen and brake
men, not less than 2.33 cents mile,
1851 a day or $10S.30 a month. These
rates apply to miles in excess of the
daily minimum and to extra service.
Women are replacing men in the
federal bureau Of mines, and recently
night force of 25 women was taken on
to handle the increased volume OF
work. Since the beginning of the war
the force has been more than quad
rupled in the department of the IN
terror. Night workers get 80 cents an
hour. An effort is being made to en-
ploy women who are out OF work or
are waiting for employment. NO Wom-
an employed during the day is per-
mitted to join this night squad. The
former staff of the bureau, which Oc-
cupied the old arsenal grounds at
Washington, numbered 200, all OF
whom were men.
Many employers engaged directly or
indirectly in manufacture of goods for
the government since the war, nave
asked the Ohio state industrial COM
mission for relaxation or even general
suspension Of laws regulating child and
woman labor, according to report to
Governor Dix. Inability to get sut-
ficient help to complete contracts on
schedule time is the reason advanced
invariably, 1t is stated. The commits
sion has refused any exceptions or con
cessiOns.
The Window Cleaners Protective
union, local No. 1876, Of the A. L. OF
L., signed an agreement with the EN-
ployers' organization, the Citizens
accnniofinY1 in Now YORK
A closed shop was agreed upon, raise
of So a week all around and an eight
hour day. =.
The United States Steel Corporation
is to build great shipyard at Mobile,
Ala. 1t will cover II, 800 acres and will
contain 10 marine ways, with a full
equipment of shops Of all kinds used
in shipbuilding. Two villages, one for
whites and the other for negroes, are
to be built and will have 1900 houses.
The Mobile company will be known as
the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company.
The Pennsylvania Railroad system
has issued pamphlet Of instructions,
for military guards and watchmen,
whereby men unfamiliar with railroad
conditions may avoid danger while dis
charging their duties. The rules are
based on those issued for protection OF
railroad employees and have been eS-
pecially adapted to the needs of mill
tary guards.
A threatened strike Of the $4,000
operatives in the 110 cotton mills of
Fall River, Mass, was called off. Mem
bers Of the five textile unions voted to
accept the proposition of the Cotton
Manufacturers association for a 121z
per cent increase in wages, work to.
continue without interruption for 10
per cent advance.
In accordance with an arrangement
made between the German and Turkish
authorities, 500 Turkish boys have been
distributed in twOS and threes through
out Germany-300 being apprenticed to.
various trades and 200 to cOlliery work.
They are shortly to be followed by 500
others, who will devote their attention
to agriculture.
One of the most important questions.
and one which has assumed political,
prominence at many electoral cam
paigns, is that of the housing of the
working classes. This subject Is now
being taken in hand by departmental
committee appointed by the govern.
ment
The Legislatures of five states pro-.
vided during the current year for vari-'
Gus lines of Investigation in social In
surance. The states taking such action
are Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Wisconsin.
In France law has been passed set.
ting up special fund for payment Of
compensation for Industrial accidents
to men employed In industry who nave
been previously disabled in the war
The British government has made a
pledge to British labor that every en-
ployer shall, after the war, "reinstate
the working conditions of his factory
on the pre-war basis"