Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-03
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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per cent organized.
Stove mounters of Richmond, Va,
have reOrganized their local and are
affiliated with the Stove Mounters In
ternational union.
The California Federation of Labor
unanimously adopted a resolution
favoring the alien land amendment on
the November ballot.
Trade unionists of the state are
urging the Maryland legislature to ac-
cept the theory of state control of,
workmen's compensation.
Two hundred men were laid off at
the plant of the Laclede Steel COM
pany, Alton, III. The men were en-
plOyed in the roller department.
South Chicago butchers have re-
duced hours and increased wages. The
parties negotiated for three weeks be-
fore they reached an agreement.
More than $23,0OO,0OO has been paid
to persons injured and relatives Of
those killed in industrial accidents in
Pennsylvania during the last four
years.
Riveters numbering between 300 and
400 started a vacation from the Fore
River yards of the Bethlehem Ship
building corporation, Quincy, Mass,
as a protest against working condi-
tiOns.
The management of the Harmony
Knitting Mills Of Cohoes, N. Y, an
nounced that the plant would close for
an indefinite period. The mills give
employment to 1900 persons. Lack
of orders is given as the reason for
the shutdown.
Revised wage lists, bringing in
creases Of from to approximately so
per cent and affecting about 5000 en-
plOyees In the clerical. messenger and
police forces of the Navy department
throughout the country, were sent to
the officials in charge of the navy
yards. These increases were author
lied by Secretary Daniels September 4.
Velour hats that formerly bore the
mark Made in Austria" will in future
bear the mark, Made in Czecho-Slo-
vakia," as nearly all the factories are
in that new country. One manufac-
turer alone used to export to the Uni
ted States, England and France, 30
600 dozen hats a year Rabbit fur is
the principal material and the process
is secret.
In Olympia, Wash, the state indus
trial Insurance commission has ruled
that no matter how a worker is injured
in the course of his employment he is
entitled to compensation unless the ac-
cident is due to his deliberate inten-
ton. This rule was emphasized in
the case of worker who was acci-
dentally shot by police officer, who
was pursuing escaped prisoners. The
state commission is paying the work
er's claim for damages.
A labor university designed to give
workmen and small officeholders an
education which will fit them to be
labor managers and executives has
been created recently at Frankfort,
Germany. All the unions of Germany,
reSdruleSS Ol party, anu pIolcoSoiS
from other labor educational centers
have been asked to send candidates
to this academy Of labor" for the
first enrolment of from so to 200 stu
dents, which number will be increased
later, it is hoped.
It is estimated that there will be
100000 automobiles In the United
States in 1921. Observing the same
ratio, 1t will be necessary to run 49,
428,OOO barrels of crude oil through
the stills in the United States, or l.
1897 barrels per day.
Production of coal In Colorado, al
ready curtailed by a strike of miners
In the northern part of the state, was
still further reduced when 40 miners
in the southern part suspended oper-
ations because of shortage Of rail-
road cars. Seventy-one mines In the
state now are reported idle.