Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-06-06
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

For every 100 vacant situations for
females in Switzerland there are S6.7
applicants. 0
New York state forbids women in
the core rooms of foundres to lift
more than % pounds.
The New South Wales government
is preparing a bill to compel employers
to reinstate returned soldiers.
1t is estimated that there are now
100000 unemployed in Germany, one
fourth of whom are in Berlin.
Buffalo patternmakers have been
awarded an increase of IS per cent in
wages, with a minimum of 81 an hour.
Two-thirds Of the women who re-
placed men in various positions in New
York state receive less than $15
week.
Engineers employed in 60 artificial
ice plants at Chicago were granted an
increase of S1.20 a day and a strike
was averted.
Female labor is so cheap and abun-
dant in Japan that more than 60 per
cent of the total number Of employees
in the factories are women.
Trade unionists at San Diego, Cal,
are discussing organization with public
school teachers, many Of whom are
agreed on the value of collective ac-
ton.
Mexico is to have national work
mems compensation law which will in
, clude many of the important features
of similar laws enacted by states in
this country.
British Columbia has put into effect
a minimum wage of $12.75 week for
girls and women more than Is years OF
age who are employed in the mercan-
tile industries of that province.
Many of the small Independent iron
mines on the Mesaba range have closed
reducing their working forces 40 to
60 per cent because of unsettled condi-
tions in the steel market.
Striking members of the typograph-
ical union employed on the four local
dailies at Albany, N. Y, voted to re-
turn to work pending arbitrating Of
their differences with the publishers
over the matter Of wages.
Recent legislation enacted by the
Brazilian congress and officially pro-
mulgated by the vice president Of
Brazil provides for the payment Of
compensation to workingmen killed or
injured in the performance of labor.
Cotton operatives in England are
now working 5515 hours a week, the
machinery in both the spinning mills
and weaving sheds running ten hours
a day from Monday to Friday, and
five and a half hours on Saturday.
Through the excellent work of the
training service of the department of
labor an unskilled workman in a Chi
cago machine shop, was enabled to In
crease his earnings from $15 week to
$24 in six months. He started in as a
sweeper
The union coal miners of Arkansas
won a 15-year fight against the oper-
ators when the Arkansas legislature,
which closed recently, passed in Origi-
nal form and without the slightest
change a bill providing for wash
houses at all coal mines in the state
employing ten or more men.
The new British Servants union has
adopted the following program: An
eight-hour day; time and half for over
| time; double time for Sundays; whole
day off every month; whole day off
| every week after six months service;
a minimum wage of $3.50 a year where
only one servant is kept; a minimum
| wage for kitchen and scullery maids,
$3.50; house maids, $175; parlor maids,
5000; and cooks, 1925.
general increase Of wages for all
employees of the Southern New Eng
land Telephone company was an
nOunced. For the operators the COM
| pauy fixes a minimum rate Of $40 a
week and a maximum Of $40. The
| company announces that, as the new
| schedule will require approximately
| $435,O00 yearly, a revision upwards Of
| the local service rates will be made to
secure this amount from subscribers.
Announcement was made of the set
tlement of the mason tenders union
strike that has been in effect at
Springfield, Mass, since April 8, by ref
erence to a board of arbitrators to be
named. Pending adjustment, the men
return to work at the old rate Of $4
day. The union demanded 621a cents
an hour. A compromise offer of Sd
a day was refused and the union then
fell back on a demand for $5 day.
The adoption of labor-saving devices
by the farmers of North Dakota has
resulted in a decrease of about 5 per
cent in the demand for farm labor,
according to A. j. Surratt, field agent
of the department Of agriculture for
the state of North Dakota.
The Duquoin (Ill.) unions OF ldtners
employed at the Majestic, Paradise and
Security mines have just opened a
new cooperative store. The co-opera-
tive store idea has become popular
among the miners Of southern Illinois,
and a number of these stores have
been started in an ALIemQt to ,Es5uce