Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-16
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

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American Industrial plants employ
100000 women.
England has more than G0,O00 bakery
workers, of whom about 80 per cent
belong to labor unions
The over 6,000 walters employed in
New NOrk's medium-priced restaurants
are demanding a minimum wage of
$50 weekly
In Sacramento, Cal, newspaper print
ers have established a new seal which
calls for $40 a week for night work
and $40 for day work, with a 71Ahour
day.
Workers in Spain will not work
more than eight hours a day, except
in an emergency. and then only after
agreement as been reached as to
wages.
Five large trades of Great Britain,
having taken their grievances to the
court Of arbitration without recourse
to strikes have obtained an increase
in wages of $1.25 week.
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anticipated in Sheffield, England, and
the exhibits in this line range from
the smallest telescope to a lens with
a diameter of nine inches.
The British chamber of commerce at
Sac PaulO, Brazil, has inaugurated a
series Of British industry fairs in or
der to stimulate the importation Of
British manufactured goods in Brazil.
At the end Of 1916 there were at
work in Great Britain LASS industrial
cooperative, diStributiye and prOduc-
tive societies, with an aggregate mem
bership of 1868, 100 and total share
loan and reserve capital of S379, ,283,-
992.
More than 200 employees of the Port
land (Ore.) Railway, Light and Power
company are benefited by the recent
award Of the state cOnciliatory board
which grants them an eight-hour day
The wages Of linemen is advanced
from Sc to $S per day.
The Massachusetts State Grange,
in its fOrty-seventh annual convention
went on record as unalterabIy opposed
10 the 44-hour week on the ground that
1t does not give sufficient working time
to accomplish the big reconstruction
program that confronts this country
The wonderful growth Of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor is shown best
in the figures giving the results Of
organization work. Between May 1,
1919, and August II, 1919, charters
were granted for 278 local unions and
40 central bodies.
Official figures given out by the
South Wales Coal Owners association
show the weekly 4S-hour wages paid
to 10000 skilled miners from which
It appears that 27,0OO received less
than $1460 per week in July, 1914, but
that all excepting about 700 were earn
ing more than this in November, 1913,
and that nearly 10000 were in receipt
of a weekly wage exceeding $2190 at
that time.
Steps to effect a settlement in the
iron mOlders dispute in England are
being taken and the employers have
ntimated their willingness to meet a
representative of the unions concerned.
A subcommittee of the Engineering
and Shipbuilding Trades federation
has been active in trying to bring the
parties together and the Trades Union
congress parliamentary committee is
using its influence to secure the re
opening of negotiations.
A three per cent increase in fac
tory employment during November
was reported by the New York state
industrial commission. The gains were
spread through most of the industries,
the increase being especially strong
in steel mills, shipyards, printing
trades, glove factories in New York
city and the cigar industry, owing to
settlement Of strikes. The piano work
erS' strike is still on, an increase Of
Sc week having been refused.
Officials Of the metal trades and
building trades unions are becoming
alarmed over the shortage of labor at
Toronto Can, the exodus to the United
local industries generally. Thomas
White, secretary of the machinists'
union, states that daily offers of work
in the United States are received at
wages ranging from $1.10 to $1.5O per
hour. Many bricklayers and carpen-
ters have also crossed the border and
are receiving 81 and over an hour.
In the lower paid section of the
granite industry in the United States
and Canada the minimum wage rate
had increased to 81 for the eight-hour
day until just prior to last Labor day
when force Of circumstances increased
the minimum wage in the lowest paid
localities to $3.50 day.
Following the formation of union
in affiliation with the San Francisco
labor council, by members of the San
Francisco fire department, the board
of fire commissioners passed q resOlu