Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-11-07
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Agricultural workers in Norway
number over 100000.
For every 100 situations in SwitZer-
land there are 513 applicants.
In Japan only Is cents a day is paid
carpenters for ten-hour day.
Nearly 100000 persons are employed
in the printing trade in Great Britain.
The National Association of Laundry
Workers has a membership of over
100000
Nearly 9 per cent of the workers in
the pulp mills of Canada receive $25 a
week or over.
Working expenses on the London
tramwayS rose from 13 cents mile
in 1913 to 80 cents in 1918.
Fourteen thousand miners resumed
work at Delaware and Hudson mines
in Pennsylvania and will await award
by Cancellation board.
The average daily wage of men has
increased 241 per cent and of women
the German Imperial Workers Ga
Zette.
Peruvian railways are threatened
with complete tie-up owing to the
suspension Of work by employees, who
demand a substantial increase in
wages.
In cities of 5000 population or over
in Minnesota the minimum wage for
women workers is $11 a week of 4S
hours and % cents an hour for addi-
tional time worked. This schedule ap-
plies to all occupations.
A general strike affecting thousands
in all kinds of labor broke out on the
water front at Mobile, Ala. LongshOre-
men are demanding SO per day and
eight hours. Coal handlers are demand
ing 81 per hour with an eight hour
day.
What is said to be the first strike
Of coffin painters and decorators in
st. Louis is on at the plant of the
st. Louis Coffin company. The men de-
mand an increase of ten cents an hour.
They are now getting forty to fifty
cents
One of the largest cigar concerns in
Pennsylvania, operating string Of
factories offered an increase of 10 per
cent to it's cigarmakers, who are on
strike for so per cent raise and bet
ter working conditions. The firm
claims some of it's men have already
returned. 1t was announced at Read
ing that approximately 10000 cigar
factory employees are out in the
United States.
How to place 10000 former service
men in positions for which they are
fitted is the problem faced by the re-
employment committee of New York
City. Alfred L. Smith, executive sec.
retary Of the body which is trying to
find jobs for ex-fighters through the
unemployment bureau, issued state
ment in which he urged employers to
remember that the work must be
provided not only for many of the men
in the First division, but also for
thousands of others who were in the
dIIny, navy VI IHdIlHcS.
The difficulty in procuring sufficient
trained workers in the garment indus
try in this country because immigra-
tion has entirely ceased promises to be
obviated in large measure by the
installation of industrial training,
which the government is promoting
through the United States as a branch
of the department of labor. The gov
ernment's aid for the industry is in
the form of four books, which set
forth in detail practical methods Of
teaching old and new workers the
most approved ways of performing
their tasks.
There is a shortage of more than
1000 coal miners in the Springfield
Qllinois) district. Officials of the Unit
ed Mine Workers union announce
mines in the district are handicapped
by the shortage and that coal produc-
tion is suffering as result.
Employees of the Mianus Manu-
featuring company, manufacturers Of
wooden blankets, Greenwich, Conn.,,
went on strike. Strike leaders claim
the entire 300 employees went out.
The strike vote was taken following
the refusal of the company to grant
demands for a forty-four-hour week
and Q new basis for QYsghmA :.