Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-04
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Hungary has over $4,000 female
trade unionists.
In the factories in Sweden there are
% women to every 100 men.
Women are employed as glassbIow-
ers and engravers in England.
Over $500 girls were placed on
farms last year by the Ontario labor
bureau.
Argentina is threatened with strike
of tenant farmers throughout the re-
public.
Toronto (Canada) street railway
men have been granted an increase in
pay.
In some parts of England dogs wool
is being spun and manufactured into
garments.
Nearly 10000 people are employed
in the various plants of the Armour
Packing company.
During the first ten months of 1918
2,04S men were killed by coal mine
accidents in the United States.
One hundred thousand Canadian
women are represented in the FEEDER
alton of Women's Societies recently
formed at Winnipeg, Canada.
French postofflce and telegraph
workers have been granted 200 per
cent increase in wages. Under the
provisions Of the bill wOmen's wages
will be the same as men for the same
kind of work.
Fur manufacturers In New York
have granted their workers higher
wages and a guarantee against slack
season layoffs. The increase in wages
amounts to about 40 per cent over the
old minimum.
Park Place cOlliery, near MahanOy
City, Pa, owned by the Lehigh Rail-
road company, IS been placed on
seven-hOur schedule for an indefinite
period. Over 800 men and boys are
employed in the mine.
The Welsh tinplate conciliation
board at Swansea, Wales, has granted
a further increase bonus throughout
the trade ranging from IS to 20 per
cent on present bonuses, which already
amount to 90 per cent.
To protect mineworkers from pos
Sible injury by explosion in gaseous
mines and to instruct new miners of
underground danger, the anthracite
coal industry has posted precaution-
airy rules in and about the coal mines.
The twenty-four international
unions in the the steel industry have
a membership of over 100000. They
cover the iron and steel industry in
all its branches from the men who
dig the coal and iron ore to the men
who load out the finished products at
the plants.
In order to take care of unemployed
soldiers, the federal government of
Australia has appropriated S2,50O,0OO
for the construction of public works,
pending the completion of a larger
loan scheme to provide work for the
home coming Anzacs along more per-
manent lines
Twelve hundred members of the
Railway Clerks union employed by
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis railway went on strike, alleg-
ing unfair treatment Of the union by
A. T. OttarsOn, federal auditor for the
railroad administration. The entire
system is affected
Following a shutdown for one week
TO fOrestall a strike of it's machinists,
the New York Airbrake companys
plant, WatertOwn, n. Y, opened as an
open shop. Estimates by union Off
cials place the number Of men who re-
turned at from Is to $50 out of a
total Of 1900 union machinists en-
ployed at the plant. Company officials
claim 400 machinists returned to work.
l.. i. LindelOff, secretary of the
painters district council, and J. d. Ris-
ing, chairman of the wage committee,
announced at Chicago that an agree
ment had been reached granting a
raise Of l21a cents an hour to painters
and decorators. Mr.. Rising said the
increase in spring rates for all classes
Of painting and decorating will be
about IS per cent.
The Toronto Railwaymen's union has
decided to accept the increase award
ed them by the majority of the board
of cOnciliation, which was 2h cents
an hour for first-year men and 2 cents
an hour for all other men.