Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-11-28
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

c., are contending for the eight-hour
day.
Nine states now have in force health
insurance which must be paid to wage
workers.
Philadelphia bricklayers are now
commanding $1.10 per hour for eight
hours work.
A general strike has been declared
at Huelva, Spain. RiOting has occurred
at the mines.
Soap making, which is dependent
upon the olive oil industry, is the
principal industry in Tunis.
Chile has made more progress in
manufacturing than any other west
coast country of South America.
From $4,000 to $4,000 a year is the
average wage being earned by ped
dlers throughout the United States.
Shipping and transport workers at
Dresden went on strike recently.
Food supplies of the city were cut off.
Rollers employed by the United
States Steel corporation earn as high
as $50 day, with an average of $50.
The output of Japanese coal mines
during 1918 amounted to 20,835, ,254
tons, an increase Of about 80 per cent.
During the last weeks Of the war
the pay roll at Hog Island shipyard
| amounted to over 81 100000 each week.
Coal miners in Great Britain decided
! to reject the plan Of the government
to put the mines on profit-sharing
| basis
The suspension of work by miners
in Germany caused many of the min
ing companies in that country to go
| bankrupt
Trolley workers in Connellsville, Pa,
who have been working steadily since
May 1 last, will receive about $40 in
back pay.
Scranton (Pa.) trOlleymen have been
granted an increase in wages Of 4
cents an hour, making their hourly
wage so cents.
Labor employers in Beaumont, Tex
as, have organized an Open-shop asso-
citation, incorporated to meet labor-un-
| ion demands.
The proposed enforcement Of an
eight-hOur day, it is estimated, will
lessen the output of spinning mills in
Japan by 40 per cent.
More than 27,OOO employees of the
federal and municipal governments in
the District of Columbia are receiving
+ laCS tban SQ0 q month
The upper chamber of the Holland
parliament unanimously passed bill
establishing an eight-hour workday
and a forty-fve-hour week.
Under a recognition plan, employees
of the Larkin Soap company, at Buff
falo, N. Y, will be able to become
stockholders in the concern.
The general strike called by the Ger
man metal workers has collapsed
Troops have occupied the headquarters
of the Independent Socialists
Throughout the London & North
! western Railway system all women
employees, except the salaried staff,
! have received notice to leave.
III Cdlldud Tie DIlChIdyCIS,
| plasterers, marble settlers and tile set
| ters are under one charter and affiliat-
ed with the International Bricklayers'
union.
More than $50 striking Chicago
! butchers have returned to work at
| shops where the union scale has been
! granted. About 300 men are still out
| and hundreds will be called out from
! day to day. Settlement of the strike
is predicted soon.
Government workers on the Hama
! (HonOlulu) wharf struck for more pay.
| The law requires employment of citi-
ZenS on government jobs when they
can be hired. But non-citizens may
| be hired when citizens will not work.
So 'noncitizens are on the job now.
Union drug store employees, from
registered pharmacists to soda clerks
and porters, struck in Greater New
| York to enforce demands for higher
wages and shorter hours. The strik-
ers are enrolled in the United Drug
| Clerks local, which claims a member
ship of 1000.
Hope of early settlement of the
strike of nearly 5000 New Orleans
! fongshoremen went glimmering, when
the leaders of the strikers reiterated
! that they would not return to work
until they are granted 81 an hour, with
50 an hour overtime and So an hour
on Sundays.
An Englishman has adapted brick
making machine for forming plastic
clay tamping plugs to be used for blast
| ing in mines.
In an effort to forestall union Of
hatmakers, extra efforts are being
made TO attract as many workers as
possible to the trimmed hat industry.
The building trades strike, which
has been in progress at Lille, France,
has been settled, the employers agree
ing to pay higher rates Professionally
| for the months of November and De-
cember. This will mean an addition
al expenditure by the employers for
tho two months Of 80,O0Q,OQ0 francs.