Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-09-19
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

More than $1,000 people are employ
ed in the mines, mills and quarries in
Nevada.
Bakery workers in Dubuque, Iowa,
have organized and affiliated with the
trade union movement.
More than 10000 painters in New
York city are demanding fiye-day
week and a fiat wage scale of SIS Il day.
Ninety-five per cent of the phono-
graph cabinets produced in the United
States are made at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The strike of 1000 union workers in
the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corpora
ton yards at SparrOw's Point, Nd
was called off.
The seamen's strike ended at Sgd
ney, N. S. W., when at mass meeting
the men decided to reman the ships
Immediately.
Silesian dispatches show the situa-
ton in that region is much improved,
from 70 to so per cent of the miners
who have been idle having returned to
work.
Four hundred cigar makers employed
in different shops at Baltimore, Nd.
struck for a 44-hOur week, 90 per cent
increase in wages and improved shop
conditions.
Demanding a minimum wage of $50
weekly nearly 5000 walters went on
strike at New York in 900 medium
priced restaurants, according to Will
liam Lehman, secretary Of the Walters
union.
An increase of 10 per cent in wages
has been granted employees of the
Chicago south park system. This is
additional to the 15 per cent war
bonus authorized months ago. and the
bonus is to continue effective until
next May.
About POO employees of Martins
burg's (W. Va.) two woOlen plants
went on a strike for an increase, but
all save so returned to work with the
understanding there will be a general
increase. the amount to be determined
at a conference.
The strike of 5000 employees of the
Cooperative Trading societies in north
England has been called off, an agree
mpnt having been reached between the
men and their employers. The strike
lasted four days, the workers demand
ing a f0rty-four hour week and an in
crease in wages.
Of ,n
ers in Philadelphia struck, tying up
practically every large building opera
ton. While no statement was made
by the bricklGyers, maSOns and plas-
terers' union, prominent contracting
firms said the men were striking for
S1.25 an hour, an increase of 3712
cents.
A walkout of practically all the
miners of Burke, Mullan and Nine
Mile districts of the Occur dAlenes
occurred following a vote by members
of the international Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers. Fifteen
hundred men are out, TO enforce the
demand for an eight-hour day from
portal to portal.
Machinists of Akron, Ohio, voted
unanimously to go on strike for in
creased wages and changed working
conditions. More than 5000 men, EN-
ployed in 26 factories, including the
large rubber plants, would be affected
The demands include, besides in
creased wages, abolition of all bonus
and premium systems, second and
third shift men to receive for 40 hours
the same pay frst-shift men receive
for a 44-hour week.
A settlement has been reached be-
tween the Belgian government and the
railway, postal and telegraph opera
tives, whose demand for a minimum
wage of eight francs daily was grant
ed, it is announced. The strike COM
mittee organized by the men has been
dissolved.
Anthracite miners in session at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, declared for the
check-off, a six-hOur workday, five
days a week, and an increase of 60
per cent in wages. The tridistrict con-
vention, in session to formulate the
demands of the Miners, adopted the
report of the scale committee.