Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-09-24
OTHER LABOR NOTES


during 1919, were valued at $14000,-
100000 A cut in the hours of farm
labor from sixty to forty-eight per
week would reduce production by %
per cent.
Telephone service throughout the
island of Porto Rico stopped when
operators and other employees walked
out after a rejection of their demand
for so per cent increase in wages.
An offer of 80 per cent advance was
refused by the strikers.
The Hartford City Ond) Paper
company mills, closed for the past
three weeks by strike, resumed op,
eratiOnS. Men with a clear record,
who cared to return were taken back
at the old wage scale. Others from out
of the city will be imported to take
the places of those who do not re-
turn.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
authorized its president, John Fitz-
patrick, to appoint a committee OF
fifteen for the announced purpose of
United States chamber of commerce
on the closed shop proposition" and
to devise means of preventing open
shop.
The Builders association of Du
Page county, Illinois, declared for an
"Open shop" according to Norman
jefferson of HinSdale, president of the
association. This decision followed a
carpenters and plumbers strike for
S1.25 an hour. The builders say the
strike is in violation of a wage agree
ment.
Linotype operators of Manila's
three American newspapers the Bulle-
tin, Cable News and Times, refused to
work in protest against alleged SIAN
derOuS assertions the newspapers
printed against FilipinOs and their as
pirations for independence. The papers
appear abbreviated and without ad-
vertiSements.
The strike of moving picture crafts
men in the laboratories of the various
New York moving picture studios was
called off according to announcement
by the National Association of the
Moving Picture Industry. The strik-
ers it was said, decided to return to
work and negotiate with the produc-
ers while in their employ.
Cleveland hotels reached an agree
ment with the walters union for an in
creased scale of wages, according to
Of pl
more business agent of the walters.
Under the agreement, Whissemore
said, walters are increased from S15
to $21 weekly; Mattresses, $12 to $1S,
and cooks get an increase of $40.
Carpenters who have been on a
| strike for almost month returned to
work at st. Louis following the grant
| ing of their demands for a wage in
| crease from 81 to S1.25 an hour Not
! more than 500 carpenters were on
! strike at any time since the strike
| began, according to a statement given
out at the Carpenters District COun-
| Gil.
Union employees of the Berkshire
! Mass.) Street Railway company have
rejected a 10 per cent wage increase
offered by the company when the men
threatened to strike Leaders said
| that the men would stand by their de-
mand for an increase of approximate
! ly 40 per cent and that another con-
| ference with General Manager Rich
mOnd had been asked for.
Manufacturers granted a general
increase of five per cent in the cutting
department of the American Flint
| Glass Workers union at a conference
at Atlantic City. On a special line of
work known as sunburst, vineland and
stars an additional advance Of 13 per
cent was granted. The shade and
globe department was given increases
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent.
| LabOrers for the coming harvest in
| Santa Barbara county, California, are
so scarce that authorized representa-
tives of the various fruit associations
and companies have stated to Cover
nor Stevens that they will abide by
any scale Of wages offered employees
that shall be declared reasonable by
the Industrial welfare commission.
Laborers are getting 50 a day and
board.
Four thousand bathing suit workers
went on strike at New York. They
demand forty-four-hour week, 10
per cent wage increase over the mini
mum rates paid before the strike,
fve-day week and six legal holidays.
The strike affects 800 shops.