Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Ten thousand walters went on strike
at Paris, France, for an eight-hour day
and an increase in wages.
Two hundred and fifty members of
the British parliament signed d proc
lamatiOn opposing naturalization of
industries. A new drastic scheme of
rationing is said to be forthcoming
soon.
Employees of the Vulcan Louisville
Smelling company of North Chicago,
numbering $50, went on strike because
the demands for 55 cents an hour were
refused. They were receiving 46 cents.
The men also demand time and q half
for overtime.
BY vote of 2 to I, the delegates to
the eleventh district convention of the
United Mine Workers of America, rep
resenting 10000 coal miners of lndi-
ana, voted against asking congress to
recognize pa per cent beer as non
Intoxicating beverage.
While British union leaders were
discussing the governments demand
for guarantees that no strikes be
called in the coal mines for three
months, 10000 miners struck in the
Yorkshire district. Thirteen hundred
miners have struck in Kent.
Striking candymakers at Chicago
voted to go back to work. The man
ufacturers refused to allow them a
"closed shop" but did give them a
44-hour week with pay at the rate of
SO hours, time and one-half for over
time, and double time pay for Sundays
and holidays.
Elevated, subway and street car SER
vice in Boston and it's suburbs was
completely paralyzed when $500 men
and women employees Of the Boston
Elevated Railway company went on
strike. Over a million and half per
sons were left without street railway
transportation service.
At the Pennsylvania Railroad Sys-
TEN federatiOn's convention the dele
gates went on record as indorsing the
strike of 10000 workmen of the WHY'S
Overland automobile plants in Toledo.
w. f. Hershey of Pitcairn, Pa, presi-
said the federation pledged itself to
support the Toledo wOrkmen in their
demands for an eight-hour day and
recognition of the union.
A shrewd blow has been struck at
the zone Big Union" scheme by the
federal council of the Australian
Workers union, one of the most pow
erful in Australia. In manifesto is
sued to members of the A. w. U. the
federal council states that, having
dealt exhaustively with the zone Big
Union" scheme the executive council
of the A. w. U. has unanimously re-
jected it.
An agreement for a new wage scale
providing an increase of 81 a day for
mine and Smelter employees Of the
Anaconda Copper Mining company at
Butte, Mont, and at Great Falls and
Anaconda, was reached at a confer
ence between G. f. Kelley, president
of the company, and representatives OF
the employees. The agreement, If ac'
cepted by the labor unions, will be-
come effective as of July l last, and
restores the wage scale in effect prior
to the wage reduction of last Febru
ary. 1t would remain in effect for one
year.
The corner stone Of the new build
ing of the International Association OF
MachinistS at Washington was la1C
by officers of that organization a short
time ago.
The American Flint Glass Workers
closed their forty-third convention al
Bellaire, O., selecting Atlantic City FOL
the 1920 convention. President VII
liam p. Clarke OF Toledo was re-elect
ed and his salary raised to $5OOO
Other officers elected were: Vice pres
ident, ]. M. GilhoOley; secretary
treasurer, G. j. Shipman, and assist
ant secretary treasurer, Harry Cook
nj oP Toledo