Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-05
OTHER LABOR NOTES

ing plants.
Swansea is the center of the British
smelter industry.
Pennsylvania leads in the amount |
of money paid out in compensation |
claims.
More than 100 locomotives were
made in the Philadelphia district dur
ing 1919.
Philadelphia trade unions are plan
ming to have their own educational
institution.
Philadelphia beats the world with |
an annual production of 1OO,OOO,OOO
bed sheets.
American newspapers are now u.s.
ing an average of 1,394,5SO tons of
paper annually.
It is calculated that 10000 automo-
bile tires are turned out every day in
the United States.
Machinery molders in Bangor, Me-,
have established a rate Of $7.2O for
an eight-hour day.
The International League of Trade
unions now has a membership or
more than 27,000000.
During 1920 it is estimated that no
less Than 100000 automobile tires
will be manufactured in the United
States.
Blast furnace and open-hearth la
bOrers constitute the great bulk OF
the seven-day week workers in the
steel industry.
More than fifty per cent of the for
eign commerce of the United States is
now being carried in vessels flying the
American flag.
For the last two months Canadian
shoe factories have been either closed
down or operating at a fraction Of
their normal capacity.
Because their editorials said that
the Filipinos were not ready for in
dependence, linotype operators on the
Manila newspapers suspended work
Disorders have occurred at Union,
Costa Rica, where miners are on
strike and troops have been sent there,
according to advices received at San
Salvador
At Winchendon, Mass, cotton mills
of N. D. White & Sons went on a
three days a week schedule beginning
Sept. 80. One thousand operatives
were affected.
Inquiry into labor conditions in Rus
sia undertaken by the international
labor office of the League of Nations
has been completed and the findings,
which are to be made public shortly,
are in preparation.
The United TypOthetae of America
closing their annual convention, ex-
pressed by resolution their disapproval
of the 44-hOur week and approved the
continuation of the present 4S-hour
week in general use in printing shops
throughout the country.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
held it's annual election of officers, the
election of John Fitzpatrick, presi-
dent: Oscar Nelson, vice-president; E.
N. Nockels, recording and correspond
ent secretary, and F. G. HOpp, finan-
cial secretary, being made by acclama-
ton. President Fitzpatrick's re-elec-
ton is for the fourteenth consecutive
term and that Of Secretary NOckels is
for the eighteenth term.
National committees, so called,
made I'D of employers and employees,
and including representatives of the
ministry of labor, have been so sue
cessful in settling labor disputes in
Belgium that they are being formed
in increasing numbers in various in
dustries. They were very exceptional
in Belgium before the war, and union
labor, which at first regarded them
with distrust, now favor them.
: Deep-sea lOngshoremen affiliated
: with the international LOngshOremen's
!: association voted to renew their con-
!: tract with the shipping interests Op-
!: Grating in North Atlantic ports. More
than 10000 IOngshore workers are af-
fected by the vote The union de-
mands for a twenty-five per cent wage
j increase are reliqushed, preventing a
z threatened tieup of shipping at New
York, and in Boston, Baltimore and
Y Hampton Roads.
More than a dozen Independent
= steel mill owners formed an associa-
j tiOn in Atlantic City to resist any at
y tempt to uniOnize their plants.
= The production of coal for the first
j five months of 1920 was 247,737,273
= tons. an increase of 39,432,273 tons
] over the first five months of the pre-
j vious year.
!; !; In Boston an eight-week campaign
for better conditions has been won by
I the Leather Workers union. En-
. ployers agree to a 44-hour week and
wage increases that range from $3.50
%r QS