Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-19
OF GENERAL LABOR INTEREST

England has more than 5000 coal
mines.
Various Australian trade unions are
agitating a 40-hour week.
During 1919-19 in Canada there were
13 fatal and I'll nonfatal industrial
accidents, as compared with 18 fatal
and 671 nOnfatal in the preceding
year.
AS compared with December, 1917,
the total number of persons employed
by the railroads in the United States
on June !, 1919, had increased 11.2
per cent.
Wages of garment workers In New
York city have increased nearly 100
per cent since 1917 The present scale
is just double what they received
three years ago.
Plumbers and steamfitters have add
ed their voices to the demands of the
building trades Of Denver for more
money. The plumbers asked for SO
day, an increase of 81.
The high cost Of living is affecting
even the inhabitants of the remote
Fiji islands Some 800 Indian labor
ers have struck for increased wages
owing to dear living"
Average weekly earnings Of factory
workers In New York state for Janu-
ary show Il slight Increase over the
figures made public by the State In
dustrial commission.
CaUnVt CP nina frC SU tho Mo.
nongahela (Pa.) high school refused
to report for duty, after the ultimatum
demanding 40 per cent salary increase
was refused. Ministers and other pro-
fessional men responded TO the boards
call for volunteers.
From a factory village In 1900, when
the annual output was estimated at
SIS, ,606,24S, Winnipeg, Canada, has
grown to fiourlshing city with al an"
nual turnover valued at $57 900 OOO
in 1918. Today there are in Winnipeg
513 industrial establishments manu-
featuring clothing, leather, machinery,
lumber, brick, tile, paper, paint, etc
One hundred and fifty members Of
the New York Plasterers' Hodcarrters'
Protective association, made up Of col
Ored men and which is affiliated with
the Central Labor union and the na-
tiOnal organized labor movement, went
on strike against the contracting plaS-
terers Of the building exchange on
demand for an increase from So to So
per day Of eight hours.
Striking telephone operators en-
plOyed by the New York Telephone
Ompany won their fight for increased
pay when officials of the company an
nounced that a readjuStment OF the
wages of switchboard workers, who
walked out in several exchanges a
few days ago, had been granted. The
decision was reached at a conference
between officials of the company and
representatives of the operators.
Gustav NOske, commander in chief
for the greater Berlin district and
Brandenburg province has issued an
order applying to Berlin and Brand
enburg. threatening Imprisonment
or fine up to $4,000 marks for
melting persons, by speech or in writ
ing, to stop work which would affect
the production or distribution Of food
stuffs. The decree is directed against
threatened strikes of the bakers and
hotel keepers.
Omitting the North Butte mine
catastrophe, in which 161 men were
killed. the fatality rate for 1917 was
800 per 1000 Of 30O-day workers. IN
Guiding the catastrophe, the rate was
4.44, as compared to 3.62 per 1000 of
300-day workers for 1916.
Two hundred thousand men en-
ployed in chemical factories at Milan,
Italy, including 10000 workmen in
pharmaceutical plants, went on strike
for higher wages and a weeks annual
vacation. Glassworkers in Florence
went on strike following the rejection
Of their demand for higher wages.