Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-05-21
GENERAL. LABOR NEWS

The automobile industry in Canada
employs more than $4,000 persons
In Norway the various trade unions
are practically 100 per cent organized.
Two new mills under construction
at Gary, Ind, will give employment
to an additional 500 men.
The total annual income of weekly
wage earners in England has more
than doubled in the past four years.
Representatives from practically ev-
cry labor union in France have asked
the premier TO natiOnalize all industry
in that country
Kansas has -four mills with a ca
pacity of turning out sufficient -four to
meet the needs of about 30000,0O0
consumers annually
Philadelphia makes what is equiva.
lent TO more than two pairs Of hosiery
for every man, woman and child in the
United States each year.
Organized reed workers in Los An
geleS, Cal, as result of an organic
ing campaign have been able to in
crease their daily wages.
From July a. 1909, TO March 10
1919, The wages in eight of the lead.
ing industries In Massachusetts ad-
vanced from 62 TO 10 per cent
Railroad workers in southern Aus
tria struck and general strike of
railroad and transportation employees
at Belgrade interrupted all traffic in
Serbia.
Brewery workers in q near beer
plant at La Crosse, Wis, walked out
because their employers would not
grant them a raise of $3.50 week
The employers offered $3.50.
Fifteen wOrkmen were killed and 80
wounded during recent labor disturb
ances in the Asturias region, according
TO reports received at Madrid Spain.
Order has been restored everywhere
ii is announced
1t is estimated that the labor costs
in clothing are now SO high that fully
so per cent of the prices charged go
into the labor required in making the
cloth and trimmings and putting them
into the finished suit.
The japanese government has com
pleted the draft of its trade union law.
The law proposed recognizes the or
ganizatiOn of men in the same trades
and provides for the punishment Of
those who are regarded as a disturb
Ing factor.
In New York city window cleaners
receive $50 per week, telegraph opera
tors $37 TO $40, street car conductors
$6.4O per day and paperhangers So
per day. TailOrs receive $50 per week
for 44-hour week while the helpers
get $40 per week.
Richard Tobin and Michael Maher
are the oldest employees of the Penn
sylvania railroad. The former has
rounded out "a years of service, while
the latter has completed 80 years Of
continuous service. Both will be re-
tired with pensions.
BY comparing the earnings from sal
aries and wages of industrial workers
Of the United States in 1919 with 1919
carefully prepared figures show that
for every dollar received in 1915 the
average wage-earner received SlSl In
1919, an Increase of 81 per cent
Unionism in labor is growing in
japan, although 1t has not been com
mensurate with the development of
industry there, which has grown to
25,0OU mills aud factories, with 1000,
600 workers. Thirty-six years ago
there were only 125 modern factories
in Japan. employing 1900 people
In Denver mining companies and
other employers in Colorado are com
PEELED by law to pay their workers
twice month, but some employers
are paying no attention TO IL. They
are giving the same treatment 10 the
eight hour law Officers of the State
Federation of Labor are preparing 10
give battle 10 these anarchists
Although the established wage seal"