Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-10
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The average pay received by women
time workers is about $6.0S a week.
In Pennsylvania every worker loses
on an. average of six days year due
to sickness.
Sugar mills in Hawaii number over
70 and constitute a large majority of
the industrial plants on the island.
Many factories in Austria have been
compelled to close because of the slen-
der food ratiOns being given workers,
who are unable to work owing to their
lowered vitality.
In the United States women welders
have not been given as many or as diff
ficult types of work as have the English
women, but their field of work has,
nevertheless been varied.
Coal dock workers, on strike at Du-
luth, Mimi, for over a month, voted
unanimously not to accept the new
terms presented by operators, which
had been expected to end the strike.
The Labor Federation of Chile is
sued an order bringing to an end the
general strike. The employees in the
various trades are directed to resume
work at once A conCiliatiOn court
has been formed to settle labor dis
putes.
The Chicago wooden box manufac-
turers granted their employees, men,
bers of the Box Makers union, 10
per cent increase in wages, to take eff
feet at once This is the second ad-
vance in wages made by the employers
in the last two months.
Between 1000 and 1900 union car
penters in Davenport, Rock Island,
Moline and East Moline laid down their
| tools and walked out following a re-
fusal of a majority of the contractors
to increase the wage scale from 70 to
| so cents an hour Building operations
in the four cities were brought prac-
tically to a standstill.
Drivers of garbage wagons at Can
| ton, O., will receive an increase Of pay
| to $125 month, according to an agree
ment tentatively reached at round
! table conference The men now re-
| ceive 500 a month and two weeks ago
| SIIuCh lOI IlSHtl pay buL iSINIASN "
work upon receiving a promise that
their demands would be considered by
the council.
In the New South Wales legislative
assembly a bill introduced by the gov
ernment, compelling employers to re-
| instate all their pre-war employees, in
equally good positions, who have
| served with the cOlOrs, has passed its
first reading. Employers also become
liable to heavy penalties unless they
employ returned soldiers before en-
gaging other workers.
The conference called by President
Wilson to discuss relations between
labor and industry will meet in Wash
ington October 6, and will be cOmpOs-
ed Of five persons selected by the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, five by the national industrial
conference board, Is by the American
Federation of Labor, three by farming
organizations, three by investment
bankers and 10 representatives of the
public.
Time rates of wages in the principal
industries of Denmark are set forth
in recent study by the statistical of
flee of that country. The data show
the average rates of wages for 1914
and for the second quarter of 1917 and
1918 respectively. The inquiry COW
cred 3S,101 wage earners in 1914, A.
$40 in 1917, and 39,036 in 1913. Com
pared with 1914, average rates of wag-
es had increased 81 per cent by April,
1917, 50 per cent by April, 1918, and
85 per cent by July, 1918.
The plant of the Washington wool
en- mills, Fredericksburg, Va, closed
down because the company felt it
could not meet the anticipated de-
mands of employees, who, the COM
pany was informed, were organizing
labor union. Two hundred operators
are out of employment.
The National Federation of Fed
eral Employees began its annual con-
vention at San Francisco by taking ac-
ton to press the Nolan bill in congress
providing for a minimum wage of So
day for all government employees.
The convention represented 744 local
unions in AZ states