Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

England mas over Low uli'"
a total membership exceeding 4'ooo'-
600.
In the last 20 years 100000 auto
mobiles have been produced III the
United States.
London is to retain it's women am
bulance drivers despite protests from
labor leaders.
British, American and Italian inter
ests plan construction of large snip
yards in Peru.
About 2OO,OOO,OO0 tons Of bituminouS
coal is used each year by the railroads
In the United States.
Civic employees in Ottawa, Canada,
have asked that their wages be III
creased 10 cents an hour.
Eighty per cent of the piano man
ufacturers in the United States have
factories in New York city.
Annual production Of bituminouS
coal in the United States in recent
years has averaged 500OOOOOO short
tons.
Investigation has shown that when
ever the labor of women approXimateS
that of men the death rate Of women
rises.
Overs employed IN the Paterson (N.
j. silk mills have been granted Al
hour working week, but no increase
in wages.
Department Of labor reports for In"
last three years show that ll,U't2
strikes have occurred, mostly duTin1
the month of May.
1t is stated that the daily loss at
udd's match factory, Stratford Can
.da, by the pilfering of employees is
20 gross of boxes.
In 1917 there were 400 local unions
in Massachusetts, with total mem
bership of 277,720, of which number
3S.874 were women.
The hourly wage Of steel and iron
mill workers in 1919 was 221 per cent
Of the hourly wage in 1913, or two and
one-tifth times as great.
Director General Hines estimates III
crease in pay Of shOpmen at $4,OOO,00O
a month, or $20,OO0,O00 retroactive
from May l, 1919, to October /.
After an investigation in western
Pennsylvania Senator Kenyon found
so per cent of employees Of some steel
mills could not speak English.
Total production of bituminOus coal
in the United States since the begin
ming Of the year is now 7,118,0O0 tons
less than in same time last year.
From September, 1914, TO March,
1919, the hourly earnings Of men EN-
ployed in eight leading industries in
the United States increased by from
"A to 112 per cent.
At a cost of 100000 a cotton mill
ed a modern hotel, where several hun
dred of its women employees may live
at an expense of $3.50 a week.
Shipbuilding and repair was stopped
on the East Boston waterfront by
strike of 400 ship carpenters for an
increase in wages. They demanded so
cents an hour instead of the existing
80cent rate.
A general strike was declared In
Rome, Milan and Florence. There was
a complete cessation of work. There
was no disorder, except in Milan,
where two persons were killed and
many were wounded.
Stenographers of Detroit have form
ed a union and affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. Eff
| no IN i'm
They say that the average weekly
wage is SIT, which, they say, repre-
sents no increase over the pre-war
scale, and is inadequate.
Mohawk, Wolverine, and Michigan
mines, at HOughtOn, Mich, employing
1000 miners, announced that every
man working for the corporation here
after has a life insurance policy for
sums ranging from $1,000 to $500.
paid for by the corporation without
medical examination, and paid for
without direct or indirect charges to
the employee.
Representatives OF the Calgary
! (Canada) metal trades unions and of
the different contract shops in that
city entered into an agreement on May
| II, 1919, for a 44-hOur week and Ger.
| tain minimum wage rates, and provid,
ing that "whatever is the general basis
of settlement in wages in Toronto OF
Winnipeg will automatically take eff.
feet in Calgary. plus cents over the
highest point"
The Wisconsin Teachers association
has gone on record against uniOnizing
A resolution adopted points to the rec,
ognitiOn of the difference between the
two branches of service, public service
and private service" and urges the
teachers "to remember that teachers
are in public service"
Workmen at the Squantum ship
! building plant, near Boston, have OBJ
tanned word from Josephus Daniels
secretary Of the navy, according tC
| reports, that the Squantum plant will
be continued as permanent destroyer
base, and that as much work as pos
| athIS will be- done there.