Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-29
OTHER LABOR NOTES

brlcKlayerS III ddrrlSDuFS, Ed'' Ic-
ceive $1.25 an hour.
The blind basket makers of London
struck for an increase in wages.
Since 1899 the United States has
produced 100000 automobiles.
OF the 225 shipping coal mines In
Indiana only Is are in operation.
Mayor Hylan of New York. is
member Of the Bricklayers' union.
Cotton textile unions in Great Brit
ain have 100000 women members.
There are at present 760,110 civil
employees on the United States pay
rolls.
Rubber manufacturing companies in
Akron, O., employ nearly 100000
workers.
Before the war there were 213 sugar
factories in France, while now there
are only 81.
Building trade unions in Great Brit
ain have total membership Of more
than 100000.
Denmark has but $500 textile work
ers, and more than 10000 iron and
steel workers.
The weekly rate earnings Of rivet-
ers at the Philadelphia navy yard av-'
erage $3938.
Cotton operatives in Lancashire,
England, demand an advance of 60
per cent in wages.
Many of the worsted mills in New
England are now working on q five
day-a-week schedule.
Seventy thousand men are Idle in
South Wales, due to the shortage of
steel in that country.
Overtime work in Scandinavia is
paid for at the rate Of so per cent
over the regular rates.
The United States Steel corpor-
alton has the largest number of en-
ployees as stockholders.
Under an agreement just signed
structural iron workers in New Or
leans will receive 81 an hour.
According to the records Of the state
of Washington, there occurred in the
building trades industry 338 nonfatal
and 83 fatal accidents during 1919.
The average life Of machine file is
25,0O0 strokes and to employ file for
more than the normal period Of use
fulness more than doubles the cost of
the work being done.
England.is now raising funds at the
rate of $50,0OO,0O0 monthly for the
promotion of housing schemes in that
country. Plans have been approved
so far for more than 100000 houses.
The International Typographical
union has purchased 100000 worth
of fourth Liberty loan bonds as part
of its policy to encourage the safest
and most convenient method of invest
ment."
Labor~rs employed in the cane
fields of Barbados earn on an average
of 36 cents day, and women employ
ed in loading coal lighters, carrying
the coal in trays on their heads, re-
ceive about 4S cents day.
Paper board will be manufactured
from southern pine at HOpewell, Va,
by a Milwaukee firm, which has pur-
chased 100 acres Of land, powerhOuse,
steel building and other structures
used during the war for the manufac-
ture of powder.
Having gone into the shoe business
owing to the exigencies Of the war,
the Italian government apparently In
tends to continue its activities for the
present, at least. From compara-
lively small beginning it has increased
the number of factories working for
its account until national shoes now
constitute nearly so per cent Of the
total domestic production. There are
at the present time 54 firms, about 80
per cent of whose production, or 37,O5O
pairs per day is for the account Of the
state.
The Federation of Union Workers,
the most powerful labor organization
in Mexico, has appointed a committee
to take up with other workers organ
izations throughout the Republic the
question of uniting all labor organiza-
tions In Mexico into one confederation.
In East Liverpool, Ohio, employers
and employed In the pottery industry
will establish sick, disability and old
age pension system. The National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters has
joined with the employers association
to this end and will work out plan
that is mutually satisfactory.