Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-18
IN WORLD OF LABOR

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of the coal inquiry commission in not
making a favorable report on all OF
their demands.
The Russian soviet government, says
a wireless dispatch, is instituting a
system of registration preparatory to
enforcing the principle of compulsory
work for all.
Advices from Barcelona, Spain, state
that the recent solution to the strikes
there appears to be merely of a pro-
visional nature and that the present
calm in that city may prove transitory.
Refusing to work under the super
vision Of a newly appointed general
foreman, more than 1000 shipworkers
at the Merill-Stevens Shipbuilding
yard, near Jacksonville, Fla, went on
strike. Work in the yards was practi-
cally suspended.
More wages and shorter hours will
be asked for 10000 railroad telegraph
ers of the Pennsylvania lines. The ex-
ecutive committee of the Railroad
Telegraphers association, in meeting,
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railroad administration.
The secretary Of the loomfixers'
union has received word that the war
labor board had granted the demand
of textile workers in the Blackstone
Valley Or. I.) for a Is per cent in
crease which will date back to July /
and affect about 10000 employees.
More than 200 granite cutters de-
clared strike at Milford, N H., claim
ing that manufacturers failed to keep
an agreement made recently relating to
proposed increase in wages. The
wage increase was held up by the Ma
tiOnal Granite Manufacturers aSsocia-
ton.
Approximately $1OO00O,00O will be
spent in road building in Pennsylvania
in the next four years. A bill authoriz-
ing the state to issue bonds up to $780,
/ 100000 is going through the legisla-
| ture. In addition, the state will re-
ceive federal aid, and the counties are
expected to expend many millions OF
dollars for road purposes.
Employees of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company, which operates the
| subways, elevated lines and many of
the surface lines in that borough, de-
cided at meeting to submit a demand
for new working conditions to Lindley
M. Garrison, recently appointed federal
receiver of the company.
The Boston & Albany railroad inau-
gurated five-day working schedule for
its employees in the railroad shops In
West Springfield, Mass, the plan to
continue until business improves. The
plan was adopted In preference to
laying off any Of the skilled workers.
Between $50 and 600 men are affected
The men are said to be agreeable to
the plan.
The national committee Of the Gen
eral Federation of Labor has decided
to placard the walls of France with an
appeal to workers and to public opin-
ion generally A protest will be made
against armed Intervention in Russia,
the incomplete character Of the inter-
national labor charter and "the alb
sence of guarantees in the league of
nations covenant, which does not full
fill the conditions set forth by Presi-
dent Wilson's fourteen points," 1t Is
said.
Mems clothing workers affiliated with
the Amalgamated Workers Of America,
involving two locals, were called out
on strike at Cincinnati by Sidney Hill
man, New York, general president
The demands are said to be for 20
per cent increase in wages, system
of collective bargaining, time and a
half for overtime and a division OF
work among employees In slack sea-
sons Recently the men were granted
a 44-hour week. approximately 1000
men went out.
Members Of the Portland (Ore.)
Boilermakers' union adopted a resolu-
ton in which they expressed their de-
termination to "go to work at the
regular time," disregarding the turn
ing forward of clocks on March 80
Committees were appointed to endeav-
or to obtain the cooperation Of the
Metal Trades council and the Central
Labor Union council in the plan. Boil
ermakers said they believed the time
change would benefit the street car
company, and that this was one rea-
son they were opposed to 1t.
Dining car conductors have become
unionized. J. A. Hennessy, national
chairman, says there are now 800 in
the union, 104 Of which are Chicago
men.
Denial of advices made public at
Portland, Ore, that the Washington
shipyard wage conference had reached
an agreement to extend the Macy
award six months from March 30 was
made by G. r. Barrett, secretary of the
Tacoma Metal Trades council. He said
the denial was contained in tele-
gram from representatives Of the coun-
Gil attending the Washington confer