Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-05-10
IN WORLD OF LABOR

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Farmers of Umatilla county, Ore
gOn will pay more wages for labor
this year than ever before. Every man
owning wheat land in the prosperous
sections of that county is already be-
ginning to plan his pay roll for the
coming season. The labor situation
will be a critical one, too, for labor is
very scarce. The wage scale for this
year will average $50 a month, or 50
higher than last year. These wages
include board so that the farmer fac
ing the high cost of fOodstuffs will
find his expenses will cut big hole
In his pOCketbOok this season. For a
man and his wife the wages offered
are $50 a month. Only two farmers
in the county are offering $45, and a
few are Offering $50 for single men,
but the majority offer $50.
A threatened strike of $4,000 Cen
tral Pennsylvania coal miners was
halted when the convention of district
No. ., United Mine Workers, in ses-
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declaring that they will ask the fed
eral fuel administration to investigate
wage conditions in the district and re-
quest that the miners be represented
on the investigating committee. This
plan was adopted instead Of calling
a general strike, although the miners
say they are confident the coal oper-
ators can afford to pay the 20 per cent
wage increase demanded. John p.
White, former international president
of the miners union, represented the
fuel administration, and his influence
prevented q strike vote.
Industrial Workers Of the World
who drive spikes into spruce logs are
traitors to this country and should be
stood against a wall and shot, Will H.
Hays, chairman Of the Republican ma
tional committee, asserted in address
ing a mass meeting at Seattle, Wash,
at which he was the principal speaker.
Industrial peace is necessary to win
the war, the speaker said, adding that
there must be "mOre volunteering and
less profteering."
An increase of 80 per cent over the
previous month in the demand for la
Dor was shown in the report of the
Boston public employment bureau for
March. The average daily demand
was 90, as compared with 81 in March,
1917, and the average daily number of
positions filled was So The greatest
demand was for mechanics and labor
ers.
Four thousand machinists employed
by 200 firms in Cook county demand
ed 10 cents more an hour, beginning
May l. Some now get So and others
81 cents per hour. The new schedule
provides half holidays Saturday dur
ing June, July, August and September.
Atlanta (Ga.) plumbers and pipe
filters secured q union shop agree
ment which calls for a minimum rate
of $3.50 for an eight-hOur day and the
Saturday half holiday.
Ninety-eight and One-half per cent
of the Remington Arms machinists and
tOOlmakers voted to strike unless their
demands for higher wages are granted
by the company.
Officers of the International Broth
erhood Of RoOkbinders report that for
the month ended February 10, 147
men and 172 women were admitted.
Nearly 900 sawmill employees of
Marinette and Menominee, Wis, will
receive a raise in wages of 25 cents a
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Four Hundred car men in the en-
ploy of Wilkes-Barre Railway company
were given an increase in wages that
amounts to $4,000 annually.
Women by diluting the British army
from the kitchens up to clerical work
have now released ten divisions for
the firing line.
st. Louis (Mo.) Cement Finishers'
union secured a new wage agree
ment. Wages are increased to 75 and
so cents an hour.
When a wOrkingman in England
leaves his occupation and doesn't find
another in IA days he is automatically
in the army.
Machinists of Kingston, Canada
have established a nine-hour wOrkday
and a wage scale of 81 cents an hour.
Organized labor protested against
the attempted employment of women
by the Kenosha CWis.) street railway.
Nebraska has declined with thanks"
the offer of eastern college girls to
work on farms in that state.
Ninety factories are engaged in the
production of the new Liberty motor
truck.
the new Canadian parliament.
Bakers at Cincinnati, O., have in
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