Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

Stockton (Cal) painters are now
receiving 81 day.
German stone and pottery workers
receive an average of $1.07 day.
Foundry employees in Wallace, Ida
no, have perfected a strong trade
union.
Journeymen tailors in Bremerton,
Wash, recently won new wage scale
Of $36 week.
All the shoe workers in Auburn, Me-,
have been granted a 10 per cent in
crease in wages.
Between 1913 and 1918 male farm
servants in Sweden received wage in
creases amounting to 104 per cent.
In general, the present wage scale In
Belgium, as compared with 1914,
shows an increase of from 80 to 200
per cent.
The Property Owners association in
tervened in the lockout of construc-
ton workers in Madrid, without ma
terial results.
Woodworkers employed in Wood
stock, Canada, have been granted
44-hour week and q minimum wage OF
55 cents an hour.
Members of the International Typo
graphical union in Victoria, b. c., are
asking for a new wage scale carrying
large increases to become effective at
once.
Independent socialist circles in Ber-
lin are carrying on an agitation in fa-
vor of a general strike, as a protest
against new increase In the cost or
foodstuffs, according to the Frankfort
Gazette.
The eight-hour working day estab-
lished at Stockholm seems to have
caused serious trouble between EN-
ployers and workers and several unions
are now announcing q strike involving
about 10000 men.
Under a profit-sharing plan, Is per
cent Of the earnings of the Forest City
Savings and Trust company in Cleve-
land will go to employees. The EN-
ployees receive their bonuses in quar-
terly installments.
The thousands of textile workers in
Fall River, Mass, who have been idle
for some weeks, pending settlement
Of their wage claims, decided to re-
turn to work and accept the offer of
1914 per cent made by the employers.
Agreements have been signed by en-
ployers and work people in the woolen
and worsted industry in the west riding
of Yorkshire, England, providing for
the periodic adjustment of wages in
correspondence with variation in the
cost of living.
The strike of cooks and walters at
Barcelona, Spain, ended. The men
will return to work on the same con-
ditions as prevailed before the strike,
but proprietors have promised volun-
tary increase in wages when normal
conditions have been re-established.
The strike on the Argentine State
railroad, which began in the province
of Jujuy, in the extreme north, has ex-
| tended to the provinces of Santa Fe
and Salta and the territory of Chaco.
Trains are operating on delayed sched-
ules. guarded by troops. Night train
service has been suspended.
The typesetters employed by the
| Standard Of Anaconda and the Post
of Butte (Mont) have returned to
work upon orders from their interna-
tional officers that the strike, which
caused both papers a temporary sus-
pension, was not tustifable, as the
men disregarded a clause in their
agreement with their employers that
differences should be arbitrated.
A great strike of lockers at all
British ports was averted at a con-
ference between the employers and
men, at which it was agreed to submit
the whole case to an impartial jury
The men demand a minimum Of So
daily. One hundred thousand are di-
rectly affected, but the strike would
tie up all British import and export
trade.
A decision, which may be followed
by very important consequences in
| Nova Scotia, is that of the executive
| of District 26 of the United Mine
Workers of America to support the
demands of the war veterans for the
adoption of scheme of civil re-estab-
lishment in line with the soldiers ideas.
Notification of this decision has al
ready been sent to some of the branch
es of the Great War Veterans associa-
ton in the province.
| Carpenters engaged on the recon
struction of the government grain ele-
vators at Port Colborne Ont, went on
strike for SIPS an hour. The hazard
Gus nature of the work and the un-
favorable weather conditions are re-
sponsible for the demand. The men
had been working for 70 cents an hour.
Members of the Federated Harbor
union, said to number several thou
sand, declared strike at Havana,
Cuba. after a demand for a wage in
crease of from 30 to 40 per cent had
been refused. The union is cOnstitut-
ed of all classes of labOrers working