Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-26
or INTEREST TO LABOR

the automobile ranks third.
During 1918 there were In British
India 7e jute mills, employing 266,O3S
persons.
Members Of the international Eleva-
tor Constructors union now has passed
the 5000 mark.
The cotton industry In Germany is
producing about % to 80 per cent Its
normal output.
More than 90 per cent Of the auto
mobile tires used In the world are
manufactured in Akron, o.
There are approximately 1,1OO,OOO
persons employed in the 1900 or more
coal mines in Great Britain.
The shipbuilding industry in Can
ada has enough work scheduled to
keep 1t busy for the next two years.
There is a continued expansion Of
cotton mills in the South, and nearly
every day brings reports of new opera
tions being started.
Over 200 distinct products are
turned out by $50 establishments In
South Bend, Ind, with annual wages
of more than $15,OO0,OO0.
During 1918, In the mines In Great
Britain, there were 135 coal mine ia
talities due to explosions, Of which
S5 were at the bituminous mines.
More than $4,000 1ute workers in
India have suspended work until an
adjustment is made Of their demand
for higher wages and allowances.
The textile industry in Belgium has
reached so per cent Of capacity, while
mines and iron and steel mills have
resumed work at 80 per cent OF capaci-
ty.
According to statistics complied by
the bureau OF labor statistics, union
wage scales In the United States In
the general trades averaged IL per
cent higher in 1919 than in' 1918, and
IS per cent higher than In 1913.
At Wheeling, w. Va, f1ve hundred
teamsters, truck drivers and chau1-
fenrs walked out on strike following
the refusal Of their employers to grant
them a S. weekly raise. The men re-
port that quite a number or the nrIns
signed the new scale.
puddlers' tonnage rates rise 10 cents
per ton for March and April over the
rate In January and February, accord
ing to the bi-monthly examination con-
Quoted between the Western Bar Iron
association and the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers. The new rate win be $13.3s a
ton.
Serious labor troubles have broken
out In Japan, the London Daily Mail
saws 1t understands. The newspaper
does not know how far the govern
ment has been able to cope with the
situation, but says disturbances follow
ing q recent report that detachment
of Japanese troops In Siberia had
Joined the bolsheviki caused consider
able uneasiness.
DESPITE national prohibition, 25O
brewery employees between Scranton
and Carbondale (Pa.) have been
granted an increase in wages OF $4
per week and In some cases reduc-
tion In the number Of working hours.
All classes of employees are now On
an eight-hour day and men who for
merly worked seven days week Will
work but six hours hereafter with
no reduction In pay.
The 1000 members Of the Suitcase
and Bagrnakers' union OF New York
city struck for a minimum salary OF
$50 q week for first-class mechanics
and a 25 per cent wage increase for
all other workers, 1t was announced
by Chairman Weiner Of the strike
committee. The manufacturers have
declared for q wage scale on piece
work to take the place of weekly pay
for first-class mechanics. Present pay
In the trade, 80 per cent of which Is
on a weekly basis, is between $42 and
$50 for first-class mechanics, AMI be-
tween $1s and $35 for piece workers,
Weiner said.
Members of the Philadelphia orches-
ira, who recently demanded a whole
sale wage increase, reached an agree
nent with Arthur Judson, manager
Of the orchestra.
Fifty-nine mines, with total pro-
duction under normal conditions OF
55,4OO tons of coal a day, were idle
in the Terre Haute (Ind.) field, due to
the shortage Of coal cars on the SIX
railroads. The largest loss was re-
ported from the mines on the Pennsyl-
vania lines In the Terre Haute-Brazil,
Linton and Bicknell fields, where TWEEN
ty-one mines lost production OF N.22c
tons.