Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-05-28
OTHER LABOR NOTES

ers.
Building trades unions in Great Brit.
ain have total membership Of more
than 100000.
The United States Steel corporation
has the largest number Of employee
stockholders.
The total membership of all Brit
ish labor unions at the beginning of
1919 was 6,624,OOO.
During 1919 the consumption of pa
per In the United States exceeded the
output by about 300 per cent.
Under an agreement just signed,
structural iron workers in New Or
leans will receive ST an hour.
Burlington WI) foundry workers.
who are 100 per cent organized, have
been granted Is per cent increase
In wages.
New Haven tailors are demanding
that they be given an increase of 50
on each complete suit of clothes made
by them.
During the last year pearl button
workers in New York city have been
granted wage increases amounting to
60 per- cent.
Several banking and shipping firms
in Japan have distributed among the"
employees bonuses ranging from aH
TO 200 per cent.
OF the 1902. $50 men who had been
demObilized in Great Britain up TO
January 2, 1851 1874 had been alb.
s0rbed in industry.
AS result of the shortage of houses
in Manchester, England the bricklay-
ers have asked men of other OrganiZa.
tiOns to join them In building their
own homes.
Many lumber mills In northern Min
nesOta, Michigan and Wisconsin we're
closed by the strike of timber workers,
who are demanding an eight-hOur day
in mills and woods and recognition Of
their union.
Plumbing establishments in Birm-
ingham, Ala, declared lockout
against union plumbers in that city
The wOrkmen have made a demand for
SO per day, with double time for
overtime and Sundays and holidays.
Between 5000 and 1000 carpenters
and workers on building operations
struck at Philadelphia for higher wa
ges. A union official stated other
trades had received an advance but
the carpenters had been overlooked.
The deadlock between the scale COM
mitteeS of subdistricts No. and 6
and officials of the Pittsburgh Vein
Operators association was broken
Then both sides agreed on an average
wage increase of u per cent for the
5000 eastern Ohio coal miners.
The Detroit United Railway com
pany received demands for wage
adjustment of it's 1900 city and inter
urban car men. One dollar an hour
is the maximum asked by the employ.
ees, the rate ranging downward to
80 cents for new men. Company off.
Gals agreed to meet a committee Of
the car men, but informed them that
their demands "were so high there is
little hope of our being able TO meet
them"
While union men in the employ of
members of the Builders and Con
tractors association Of Norfolk, Va,
went on strike following the associa-
tons refusal Of their demands for Il
wage of ST an hour, no estimate of
the number of men out has been made
by officers of the association or by the
unions, except carpenters and paint
erS. Union estimates fix the number
of carpenters affected at from $50
to 800 and of painters at about 100
men.
Uncertainty in the wool market and
cancellation of large orders have ne
ceSSitated the suspension of night
work in the woolen mills at Passaic
N. j., manufacturers said. Two local
mills have laid off 1000 workers al
ready, and others are preparing to sus-
had been operating at full capacity
since before the war The Amalga-
mated Association of Textile Workers
has adopted a new schedule calling for
a so per cent increase in wages and
44-hour week.
The production of the two zinc mines
In New Jersey exceeds in value that
of any other state except Oklahoma.
The Insurance bin now before the
house of commons in England will, If
it becomes a law, benefit more than
workers. IT provides Sc a
week for men and So for women.
The Boston Rubber Shoe company.
employing $500 persons in Maiden.
Melrose and Boston. announced that
all of its operatives would receive va.
cations with pay. The first group Of
workers will start their vacation the
first week In August,