Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-12
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR

A number of corn cutters employed
on an Ohio farm are receiving So a
day and board.
Nearly 1000 oil companies have been
organized In the north Texas fields as
a result of the booms of recent years.
The number of persons killed on rail
ways of the United States during 1918
decreased 80 per cent over the fatal
tiles in 1917.
Proposed amalgamation with the
American Federation of Labor was re-
tected by the Iowa State Teachers as
sociation at its recent convention.
Bank clerks in Oakland, Cal, who
have been receiving $50 per month,
plan the forming of an organization to
better themselves in the way OF
wages.
A recent study including more than
10000 women employed in factories
and stores in New York state reveal
ed that more than half work for less
than $14 week.
At Ogden, Utah, Roy Woodward,
business agent of the teamsters union,
arrested as the leader in disturbances
on August %, was sentenced to serve
two 3O-day terms in the city Jail,
Shipbulders at the Fore River
shipyards, Quincy, Mass, have applied
for charter for cooperative bank,
the stated purpose of which is to as
Sist in intoxicating thrift and In estab-
fishing homes.
A delegation Of union men from
Waynesboro, Pa, paid the $2,492.S4
fines and costs for the "a strikers in
Jail at Chambersburg. The strikers
30 days sentences having expired, they
were released.
Eleven hundred 1ongshoremen en-
ployed at st. John n. b. accepted the
steamship interests compromise wage
offer of 70 cents an hour. The men
are now receiving go cents an hour
and they demanded so cents.
The strike of bricklayers at the
West of Scotland Steel works at Glas-
cow has collapsed, ballot of the men
having resulted in a vote for the re-
sumption of work The employers
agreed to discuss the wage question
with the men within a week after work
has been resumed.
London is to retain its women ambu-
lance drivers. Their retention was
hotly contested by labor members at
meeting of the asylum's board, but
the chairman of the committee said
that women had faced danger in air
raids and were entitled to due conSid-
GRAFTON. His motion to retain them
was carried.
Provisions in the district Of Colum-
bia policemen's pay bill to prohibit
other federal employees from belong
Ing to organizations affiliated with Ia
Dor unions, employing strike methods,
we're eliminated from the measure by
senate and house conferees. A clause
prohibiting local policemen from strik-
ing was retained.
The weekly report of the department
of labor lists seven new labor cOntro-
versies brought to the attention Of the
department during the week ended No
vember 10, as compared with IA and 13
for the two previous weeks. There
are pending for adjustment A strikes
and Ill controversies. Four strikes
were adjusted during the week.
Fountain pen makers in nearly
every factory in Brooklyn went on
strike. A general strike was declared
by 400 members of the Hard Rubber
Turner's union, connected with the
American Federation Of Labor The
Fountain Pen Manufacturers assOcia
ton has refused to meet union repre-
sentatives or grant any concessions.
A wage agreement retroactive to
Oct. l last, and running to Dec. !,
1920, providing a scale of 60 cents an
hour for mOtormen and conductors
and 4714 cents for brakemen, has been
signed by the Illinois Traction system
with it's employees, traction officials
announced The men were given 10
per cent increase over the old scale
for August and September
Increases of 40 per cent in the pay
of Massachusetts state employees re-
ceiving less than $1,000 year, and of
25 per cent in the pay of those receiv
ing from $1,000 to $500 a year, are
asked in a petition presented by 800
state employees to Calvin Coolidge,
governor of Massachusetts. The petit
ton asserts that many unskilled labor
ers are better paid than state employ
ees under the civil service.
A strike of employees Of the sheet
mills of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel
company at Conshohocken, Pa, was
settled by the strikers themselves, who
took a vote to return to work The
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