Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-09-26
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Inc musicians union In Toronto,
Ont, now has a membership of 1,20O.
The H. G.. Goodman shoe factories
at Lancaster, Pa, voluntarily granted
a 10 per cent increase to all employees.
Four thousand women employees in
the United States bureau of engraving
and printing receive less than $1,08O
year.
AS a solution of her industrial prob
lem Canada proposes to enact legisla-
tiOn that will make capital and labor
partners.
The first great railroad strike, in
1877, involved only three roads, the
Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania
and the Erie.
The coal shortage in Germany is
daily becoming worse, according to re-
ports. Many margarine factories have
been compelled to close.
An international agreement provid-
ing for six-hour days for coal miners,
with four shifts a day, will be sought
by the Essen Germany coal commits
sion.
Seven thousand cigar makers on
strike at Tampa, Fla, voted to return
to work. They accepted the manufac-
turers' offer of a Is per cent increase
in wages.
The channel tunnel from Dover, Eng
land, to Calais, France, is the biggest
undertaking the British government
has broached i'll order to give employ
ment to men liberated from the army
forces.
Prominent business men Of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, estimate that the
car strike in Rhode Island cost bust
ness interests on the average of $1,OOO,-
900 daily. The strike had then lasted
for two and a half weeks.
Electrical workers employed in six
mines of the Occur d'Alene district
struck in sympathy with the miners
who walked out some days ago, union
leaders announced. No statement was
made as to the number involved.
John G. Bales, who has been chief of
the Kenton (Ohio) fire department
thirty-three years, has asked city coun-
Gil for more pay. All of the volunteer
fire fighters in the city have Joined
him in an appeal for increased COM
pensatiOn.
A Is per cent wage advance and a
five-day working week for the 1000
shoe operatives of Lynn, Mass, effec-
tive at once, was provided for. An
agreement was signed by representa-
tives of eighteen shoe factories and
the Joint Shoe Workers council.
Although the average weekly earn
ings of factory workers in New York
state increased 50 per cent from June,
1914, to July, 1919, food prices were
90 per cent higher during the same
period, according to an announcement
by the state industrial commission.
Because their employers refused to
grant their demands for a wage scale
of 81 an hour 50 union plumbers at
Winston Salem, N. c., are on strike.
The plumbing shop owners offered
871a cents an hour for eight or nine
hours, and time and half for work
on Saturday afternoons. Practically
every plumbing shop is closed.
The city commissioners Of Emporia,
Kan, have adopted a resolution in
creasing the wages of the city en-
ployees 10 to 25 per cent because of
the high cost of living. The iremen,
police and employees Of the water and
street departments are affected by the
order. A similar resolution was put
into effect last summer.
Union men working in the building
trades at Elizabeth, N. j., have sub
mitted demands to the master build
ers for a straight 81 an hour for a
44-hour week. The crafts joining in
the demand are the carpenters, paint
ers, plumbers and sheet metal work
ers. The present scale for these crafts
ranges from Sc a day to $3.50.
An increase of so per cent in the sal
aries of post office employees to put
their incomes on a prewar basis Is
asked by a resolution passed by the
four local organizations of post office
employees at Bloomington, III. The
resolution states that although the
cost of living has increased 80 per
cent since 1914 the postal workers
have secured an increase of only 20
per cent in that period.
Thomas S. Jelly of Lynn, Mass,
shoe manufacturer, has petitioned the
superior court for an injunction to re-
strian the United Leather Workers
International union from displaying in
front of his plant banner stating
that strike is in progress. Damages
also were asked.
A meeting of returned soldiers was
held at Cobalt Ont, recently when a
committee was formed to wait on the
managers association and the miners
union with a view to reaching a settle
ment of the miners strike. reso-
luton was passed calling for the ex-
Clusion of aliens from the mines,