Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-04-30
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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Massachusetts is the leading shoe
manufacturing state in this country.
Eighty six strikes have occurred in
India recently, affecting 100000 work
erS.
Industrial manufacturing plants in
Indiana now employ more than 100000
women.
A general strike has been called by
the Federation of Workers at Rio
Janeiro.
Public school teachers in Nebraska
will get a salary increase Of $4O0 each
next fall
Girl mill workers in Manchester,
Eng, work q hours week for II
cents an hour.
Chicago q Alton shopmen, who had
been on strike at Bloomington. H., for
about week. at a mass meeting voted
10 return 10 work.
At a meeting organized by the
French Federation of Labor, resou-
tions were adopted declaring that
general strike was the only means by
which the proletariat could realize
their aspirations.
Teachers belonging to a union labor
organization will not be employed by
The board of education of st. Louis. ac-
cOrding TO a statement made by Jesse
Mcdonald, president, following a for
NAL announcement by the board In
which its position was outlined.
The strike of the Welsh steel work
ers, which has seriously crippled the
industry in Wales forlmore than
week past. has been settled 1t was an
nounced that an agreement had been
signed in London for ending the
strike. the men being advised to re-
turn to their work Seventy thousand
men were affected by the walkout,
which was initiated to enforce a de
mand for a 40 per cent increase in
pay.
Petitions are being circulated in the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad shops at Altoo-
M, Pa, asking for a nine-hour day
the first five days of the week and a
five-hour day Saturday. The men are
working eight hours a day, with no
Saturday half-holidays, but they re-
cpive time and half time for overtime.
Another petition asks for return to
She pieceWOrk system. The men are
now on the hour rate. Most of the me-
chanics receive - cents an hour
The Portuguese government has
granted wage increase of $40 month
~ 70 postal workers and telegrapherS,
and the strike in which these workers
have been involved has ended. Some
ef the men, however, have not re-
turned TO work because the govern
ment has not granted the same in
crease TO provincial employees. Men
in the building trades are idle because
contractors have refused to meet them
and discuss wages and working condi
tionS.
The general scale committee repre-
senting the anthracite coal miners by
a virtually unanimous vote decided to
remain II; work after April / pending
negotiation of q new wage agreement
providing the mine owners agree to
make any wage award retroactive TO
that date" Philip Murray, interna
tional vice president of the United
Mine Workers, declared that the
"check-off" demand would be brought
um al once in the wage negotiations
program.
A strike of 1900 engineers EN-
poyed by the British government in
lhe department known as the office of
works was settled by the department
agreeing to the mems demand. The
trouble arose over the dismissal of a
workman by foreman. The speedy
settlement of the strike was assumed
to be due to the fact that buildings, in
Guiding Buckingham palace and houses
of parliament, would otherwise have
been left without electric light or cen
tral heating.
The Utah Associated industries, In
Guiding representatives of business
and financial interests throughout the
state, at meeting at Salt Lake City,
attended by 400 persons, asked the
Utah contractors and builders to for
muIate a new wage and working code,
effective April l, which shall include
that the inherent right of every Amer
lean workman to gain livelihood shall
not be abridged; that employment shall
not be refused to any workman on ac-
count of his aftiliation or nOnaftiliation
with any labor organization"
The California supreme court decid-
ed that under the state workman'S
compensation law an industry is re-
sponsible for compensation to work
ers family. even if he is separated
from that family by divorce.
A general strike was called at
Strasbourg, AlSace-L Lorraine, owing to
the failure of the employers and work
ers to reach an agreement concerning
the mems wage demands. No news
papers were published, the supply of
gas being cut off, and all stores, with
the exception of the food shops, were
closed. The city was quiet, however.