Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-29
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The handmade shoe industry is still
Of great importance in Spain.
Skilled mine workers in Spain are
leaving for this country in hordes.
The International Typographical
union has q membership of nearly 75,-
600.
Most Of the furniture used in Para
quay Is made locally by small manu-
facturers.
The Sleeping Car Conductors union
has increased its membership to more
than $500.
Philadelphia has more than 1000
companies engaged in the manufac-
ture of textiles and allied products.
The republic of Brazil is one of the
latest additions to the number of juris-
dictions adopting the principle of work
mems compensation.
Paper board will be manufactured
from southern pine at Hopewell, va,
by a Milwaukee firm, which has pur-
chased 100 acres of land, power house,
steel building and other structures
used during the war for the manufac-
ture Of powder.
Seven hundred employees of the
American Can company walked out of
the firms three Chicago plants in sym
pathy with the general strike that was
declared all over the country of mem
bers Of the international Association
of Machinists In the employ of the
company. The strike was ordered as
a demonstration Of sympathy with
striking union members at the New
ark IN. J) plant.
One delegate was denied a seat on
the charge that he had, "by words and
actions, expressed sympathy with l. w.
w. and 'one big union agitators," at
the annual convention Of the 1nterna-
tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers,
Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers OF
America. The delegate denied a seat
is John McKelvey of Seattle, Wash.
McKelvey also was suspended from
membership in the brotherhood.
Declaring that "the acute depres-
sion in the clothing industry" would
not permit needed wage increases to
workers in Rochester IN. W factories
represented In the Clothiers' exchange,
William N. Leiserson, chairman of the
Rochester market, denied the workers
application for such increases. He
stipulated, however, that should condi-
tions in the industry improve, he would
reopen arbitration proceedings.
The royal commission has recon-
mended granting Of virtually all the
demands of 10000 Nova Scotia miners
| for wage increases and improved liv-
! ing and working conditions, but is ex-
pected to protest against "the miners
policy in striking over the most trivial
matters" it was announced unoff1-
| cially. Per diem men, 1t is said, will
receive the 81 increase demanded and
| contract miners an increase Of 20
| cents a ton.
The closed shop, full recognition OF
| the union and higher minimum scale
| Of wages have been granted by the
Baltimore Cloak Manufacturers asso-
| citation in the new agreement with the
International Ladies' Garment Work
| erS union. The new minimum scale
of wages for the various grades OF
workers is: Coat operators, $50 per
week; skirt operators, $48 full-f1edged
cutters, $45; coat finishers, $27.5O
skirt finishers, $20.50, and pressers
| ha tho
as heretofore Of Al hours.
| An invitation to teachers organiza-
| tions to affiliate with the American
Federation Of Labor, coupled with a
| declaration In favor of further in
creases in teachers salaries until the
minimum pay for a teacher in the
state is $1,000 year, is contained in
the report of the committee on educa
ton of the New York State federation
which was submitted to the state or
ganization at its annual convention al
| BinghamtOn. The report declares fo1
"a thoroughgolng and complete re-
vision upward of teachers salaries
which at present are OutrageOusly low
| especially in rural districts, and a
state law to the effect that the mini
mum actual salaries for teachers shall
not be less than $1,000 a year"
From the time of the signing Of the
armistice on Nov. II, 1913, to June 30
1920, the number of civilian employees
dropped from the United States gov
ernment service was 25,307.
The strike of jOurneymen plumbers
of Youngstown, Ohio has been settled
by an agreement to pay the men $1C
for an eight-hour day, the scale de
manded when they ceased work. Th'
master plumbers had offered $1.18 ar
hour several months ago. Ninety
journeymen and twenty-four employ
ing plumbers are affected by the set
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