Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-06-25
What They Are Doing
Notes From LabOr's Field All Over
The Country

Out of 836 professions and trades
followed IN the Netherlands, nearly
half are practiced by women.
Five thousand union walters and
Mattresses employed in New York ho-
tells and restaurants were ordered to
strike. They demand nine hour day.
Members of the Metal PolisherS In
ternational union have voted IN favor
of all metal working trade unions hold
ing a conference for the purpose or
perfecting a closer working alliance.
All deep-sea freight, incoming and
outgoing, was tied up at the port or
Philadelphia as result of the strike
| of longshOremen. More than 5000
members of the Marine Transport
Workers voted to walk out, following
the refusal of employers to grant an
increase of 20 cents an hour. The
men are now paid so cents.
Because of the refusal of the man
agement to sign an agreement to deal
with the union employees through their
regularly elected committee, organized
operatives of the Carleigh cotton mills
went on strike at Raleigh, N. G. All
the strikers, approximately so per cent
of the employees, are members OF the
United Textile Workers OF America.
The plant of the National India Rub
Der company, Bristol, K. l., which has
been closed for the hast month because
of strike, was reOpened under mill
tary guard, without disorder. A con-
siderable number Of operatives went to
work, but 1t was claimed by the
strikers that they did not constitute
a sufficient number to operate each
department of the plant.
All shoe factories in Manchester, N.
H., are running on a 60 per cent basis.
North shore industries, including
the United States Shoe Machinery
&. company, which is combating strike
of machinists, are running on cur
tailed time. One-third of the local
shoe industry in Haverhili Is at a
standstill. Cancelled orders there have
resulted In the return of millions OF
dollars worth of shoes, it is said.
Millions of dollars In goods are tied
up and 10000 mill and factory work
ers of New England are temporarily
out Of work because Of the Suspension
OF operations in nearly dozen large
factories and mills throughout that Sec
ton. Manufacturers of woolen goods
and shoes especially are taking every
opportunity to cut production, and II
not beginning a program of continued
retrenchment are curtailing temporary
opera tons as much as possible.
Notices of readjustment of wages
In the Cabot cotton mills, Brunswick,
Me, employing 700 were posted. 1t
was announced that higher wages have
| been paid here than In some other
mills, and that the readjustment is de-
signed to meet the wage scale in tha
Fall River mills. Although no definite
| figures of the readjusted scale were
| given, employees who had q 10 per
cent increase, as in mills in other sec.
| tions Of New England, expressed dis
! appointment.
Working conditions and wage scale
for Indianapolis PlastererS Local
| Union No. 46 members of which have
| been on strike since April /, were ad-
| tusted, leaving only the Plumbers
| Union No. 73 and SteamftterS Union
| No 440, Of the 16 unions affiliated
with the Marion County Building
| Trades council that have not signed
| agreements with the Building Contract
ors' association of Indianapolis. The
| original demand of the plastererS was
| for ST an hour, but no agreement was
reached before April l. when the old
contract expired and the plasterers
| then presented Il $l.10 demand The
| contractors agreed, in the contract
signed, to give them $l121a an hour.
Refusing offers of arbitration and
conciliation 1000 New Orleans union
carpenters decided to inaugurate the
strike, voted several days ago, to en-
force their demand for wages of 81
an hour, an eight Eour day and
closed shop.
A $5,OO0,O00 textile factory will soon
be started in the vicinity of Chicago
which will be notable for several rea-
sons. One is that it will have the most
modern ideas involved In its planning
and will make greater use Of elec.
tricity than has ever been done be-
fore