Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-10
IN tOTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

The total trade-union membership
in Great Britain is over 100000.
The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey has 10000 annual wage earn
erS.
japanese factories drew over 175.
900 workers from the farms during the
war
The textile workers in Toronto, On
tario, are asking for an increase In
wages of Is per cent.
The wages of office and commercial
employees in Norway have increased
from 60 to 70 per cent.
Thirty thousand silk workers in
Pennsylvania have been granted a vol
untary increase in pay of 10 per cent.
The introduction of a cost system
has enabled a British Industrial firm
to reduce a toolrOom cost Y per cent.
Over 10000 decorators and paper
hangers in New York city have sus-
pended work until they receive short
er working hours and increased pay.
SileSian dispatches show that the
situation in that region is much i'm
proved, from 70 to so per cent of the
miners who have been idle having re-
turned to work.
For industries where temperature
records are of value an inventor has
devised registering thermometer that
can be connected to and operated by
an alarm clock.
Six thousand five hundred arsenal
operatives at Tokyo, Japan, struck, de-
manding wage increases. Troops have
been called out to guard arsenals
throughout the country.
Women workers employed on punch
presses in the Underwood Typewriter
cOmpany's plant at Hartford, Conn,
are demanding that they be granted
% per cent increase in wages.
A strike at Cobalt, Ont, involving
% 900 miners, which lasted six weeks,
has been ended, the miners union
voting to accept terms Of settlement
offered by the managers. The men re-
sumed work.
After a four days conference the
American Federation of Railroad
Workers, comprising $4,000 men not in
the brotherhoods and crafts, formally
voted to accept President Wilson's
proposition on wages.
The general strike of cigar makers,
which began in York, Pa, in August,
has failed. The strike started at the
factory of the General Cigar company,
Yoak0rC and hackers
quit work. OF the number, 175 are
back on the job.
In Norway the wages of men have
increased most at Haugesund; those
of women at Stavanger. The increases
range as follows: q per cent increase
for bakers at Sarpborg, and 3Oo per
cent for workmen at Haugesund; "a
per cent for housemaidS at Fredrlk-
stad, and 220 per cent for herring Wo-
men at Stavanger.
The Massachusetts supreme court
held that the National Equipment com
pany was within the law when it eS-
tablished as a condition of employ
ment at it's Springfield factories that
the employees should not be union
men. A local union of the National
Association of Machinists had sought
to organize the workers.
A proposal for increasing pay of all
city employees of Boston was present
ed to the city council. The plan pro-
yides that increases of 27 per cent
would be made in all salaries less than
1,5OO, and that the increase would be
graduated down to five per cent in the
case of salaries exceeding $4,000. The
annual expense, if the plan is accept
ed, will be $3,0O0,0OO.
The 80 Delaware & Hudson Coal
company's anthracite coal mines in the
Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys,
employing 10000 men and boys, were
closed by a strike. The issue involv-
ed is that brought out some days
ago when the miners of the Carbon
dale district numbering nearly 1000
quit work in protest against excessive
dockage, too frequent layoffs OF groups
of men for alleged dirty coal and the
use of mechanical leaders.
Factory wages in New York state
have advanced 75.49 per cent since
1915, according to figures gathered by
the New York state industrial com
mission. The average weekly earn
ings of factory employee in New
York City increased from $12.99 in
1915 to spas in 1919; and in factor
les outside the city, but within the