Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-23
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Several cloth works at ROubaix
France, closed owing to strikes.
Houston, Tex, has SO automobile
firms, an increase of Is over last year.
The Federation of Pennsylvania
Women celebrates Its silver jubilee
this year
In England and Wales there are g.
500 coal mines, employing more than
| 100000 persons.
| Metal workers in Berlin, Germany,
who suspended work some months ago,
have returned to their jobs.
The union plumbers of Butte Mont,
| demanded a wage increase from SO to
| $40 a day. In some quarters it Is said
| likely that the raise will be granted.
Lowell (Mass.) firemen have voted
to withdraw from the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at the request of the
fire commissioners. A secret ballot
was taken.
A company to operate the first all
electric steel mill in the country, con
struction of which is to be begun in
Y,
81, 100000 it was announced at YOungs.
town, Ohio.
A survey of the workers in the Mon
tana coal mines made recently shows
that almost half of the 5000 miners
whose cases were investigated are
aliens. Finlanders, Austrians, Italians
and other European races predominate
Sentence of two years Imprisonment
was given at Winnipeg, Manitoba, to
r. B. Russell, one of the labor leaders
In Winnipeg's recent general strike.
Russell was found guilty recently of
seditious conspiracy.
Employees of the American railroad
Of Porto Rico, who have been on
strike since December 3, returned to
work after they were granted a 25 per
cent increase In wages. The wage in
crease followed authorization by the
public service commission for 20
per cent increase in freight rates on
sugar and cane products.
Laborers employed in the steel
works of Scotland have obtained as
ployers and the Iron and Steel Trades
federation, a minimum wage Of els.
FOR 47-hour week, with an allowance
Of Is. for night work The new
agreement is retroactive as from May
l2 last, and in addition the laborers
are to receive an advance of 5s. per
week at the beginning of December.
Two hundred and fifty miners in the
Chicago, Wilmington and Frankfort
nine at South Wilmington, H., went
On strike, claiming they had received
an increase of but IL cents a ton In
who maintain the mine-were granted
q IA per cent increase, the miners say.
Company officials claim there is
statewide agreement between opera
tors and union officials that mine run
coal shall be paid for at an increase
of II cents ton. Miners say they
know of no such agreement
The average weekly earnings Of fac
tory workers in New York state passed |
the $25 mark in November. The aver
age wage reached last month is 100
per cent higher than the average for
June, 1914. For all branches of manu-
featuring in the state, the total pay
roll expenditures We're - per cent |
higher last month than in November, |
1918, although the number of workers
was 2 per cent lower.
The British governments new unem- |
plOyment insurance bill gives an unem-
ployment benefit of 10 shillings to men |
and II shillings to women weekly. The |
of insured persons will |
be three pence from men and two |
pence half penny from women.
Shipping at Philadelphia was brought |
to a standstill. Following threat to
strike unless their employers granted |
demands for more pay and shorter
hours, several hundred men, including |
mates, pilots, cooks, stewards
and deckhands employed on harbOr
and river tugs determined not to wait
IOnger and walked out