Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Happenings of Importance in This and
Other Countries During the
Past Few Days.

over OOU,OUU WOlueH dCleu as Lar III
managers while the war was in prog
reSS.
During 1913 the number of women
factory workers throughout the coun-
try nearly doubled.
New York city has a woman shoe
sinner who is making a comfortable
living from her enterprise.
Mrs. Mary s. Burnham, of Port
land, is the first woman in Maine to
be appointed a deputy sheriff.
Income tax reports have revealed
the fact that chorus girls and cabaret
singers in New York are earning from
$25 to $75 week.
Buffalo women have turned their
thrift kitchen into a home bureau for
information and cooked food center,
which it is expected will be self-sup-
porting.
All Of the printing of the Canadian
parliament was tied up by strike Of
100 pressmen employed by the gov
ernment printing bureau. The men
are demanding higher wages.
The reopening of six cottOn-cloth
mills at Fall River, Mass, is an
nounced. These mills, which have been
idle for a number of weeks, will OPP
crate three days q week for the pres
ent
The success of women in general
hotel work, particularly in the clerical
departments, has led many of the
fashionable apartment houses in New
city to install women as managers
and superintendent.
The plans of Henry Ford for his new
company, which will produce a low
priced automobile, contemplate the
employment of 100000 workers when
in full operation, the motor manufac-
turer said.
The Amoskeag and Stark mills at
Manchester, N. H, went oR-full time
schedule, affecting 5000 operatives.
The mills have been working only 81
hours for a number Of weeks. In
number of departments the 48-hour
week has been established.
Under the leadership Of Lady Lon
donderry the English domestic serv-
ants recently employed in munluon
factories have been organized into a
household section of the Womens
league, which provided ambulance
drivers, cooks and various other help
ers during the war.
In December, 1918, the manufactur-
OP VOrly ctufn aYnnn6p6 for
wages a sum larger than any which
has so far been recorded. This amount
was per cent greater than a similar
one in November and e per cent
larger than the total expenditure for
wages in December 1917.
The street car employees at BARGE
Iona, Spain, went on strike, and the
minister of the interior announced
that the men were at once mobilized
under government control. He de-
clares that the same measure will be
promptly applied to the employees Of
any other public utility corporation
who go on strike.
The Piano Workers union formally
agreed to allow women to replace men
drafted into the army, but limited this
agreement for women as substitutes
for the period Of the war and provid-
ed for readiustment conferences. These
women received the same rate of pay
as the men and worked the same num-
Der of hours as the men.
Union men went again through the
gates Of the shipyards of Seattle, Ia
coma and Aberdeen to work on the
big hulls that have stood in various
stages of completion since January q,
when a strike closed the plants. AL
though several thousand men returned
to work, it will be several days be-
fore full forces are employed again.
The joint committee representing the
unions involved in the general strike
in Cuba, which paralyzed business and
traffic for five days, voted to accept
the proposal presented by President
Menocal as arbiter thus terminating
the conflict. The vote was taken after
heated debate lasting eight hours.
The men returned to their places i'm
mediately.
Catherine BreshkOvskaya, grand
mother of the Russian revolution" re-
Gently went before the United States
senate propaganda inquiry committee
and pleaded earnestly that America
send machinery and other materials
to Russia, at once to aid in industrial
reconstruction, which she said would
result in ridding the nation of the
bolshevik burden.
Charles ?. Neill of Washington, UNI
pire of the anthracite Cancellation
board, sustained the contention of the
engineers, fremen and cranemen of
steam shOvels operated by the G. B.
Markle company, HazletOn, Pa, that
they are entitled to an eght-hour day
with a per cent wage increase, in
stead of being paid a flat per cent
advance on the basis of nine hours
The award, retroactive to May IS 1915,
carries with it thousands of dollars
in back pay due on wartime earnings,
and applies to similar employees all
over the anthracite field.
Five hundred delegates representing
50 school organizations of st. Louis