Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-05-28
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


hours a day, in three shifts.
Female cotton operatives in Japan
earn on an average Of $15 per month,
Seventy thousand men are idle in
South Wales due to the shortage Of
steel In that country.
TIE Factory Workers federation in
Germany doubled its female member
ship during the last year.
Paper mill workers in HOlyoke,
Mass, have voted to accept 1917 per
cent increase in wages.
Carpet factories in Philadelphia
manufacture enough floor covering III
yards each year to encircle the globe.
: One hundred million wood boxes
were required to pack the last years
output of the canning industries in the
United States, which was, estimated
at 5000, 600, 900 cans.
In New Haven, Conn. organized car
penters rejected an offer Of employers
to raise wages to 80 cents an hour.
The carpenters presented their de
mand for 81 an hour several months
ago.
Journeymen plumbers Of Appleton,
Wis. were raised from 65 to 30 cents
an hour by master builders. They had
asked 81 per hour, but 4 compromise
wage was agreed on for the next three
months.
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.
The insurance department of the
Pennsylvania department Of labor an
nounces that the INSURED payrolls OF
Pennsylvania in the principal industries
are so large that the Keystone state
will practically be self determining in
the future as respects to compensation
insurance rates for these industries"
In New York a trade union organic
ing campaign that includes the entire
| city Is being conducted by the Inter
national Union Of Retail Clerks. Thou
sands of clerks are enrolling IN the
| movement to improve working condi-
tiOns. 1t IS expected to secure every
clerk in New York city as member.
Negotiations are said to be under
way with Great Britain for loan Of
f5,OOO,OOO to be used for construction
In the devastated districts of Belgium.
The unemployed In Germany have
received in the form of unemployment
relief from the revolution up to Octo-
Der 4 1919, q total sum of 4 800 100000
marks.
At meeting at Mountain Ash,
miners from various parts Of the
South Wales cOalfeld, 5000 to 10000
strong. protested against the policy of
the naturalization of miners and pass
ed resolution advocating system
of profit sharing after d fair dividend
had been paid to capital and proper
wages to the workmen mad been paid.
The members of the Buildings
Trades council of Toronto, Canada, are
now ready to launch out into the
building of houses. The scheme
which they propose, Ii approved by
the city council Is that the Building
Trades council, which controls the
monopoly of building trades mechan-
ics in Toronto, will guarantee the re-
quired supply of labor at normal prices
If the municipality will provide the
material and the land.
Between 1000 and 5000 union mold
ers, embracing nearly all the molders
In Cleveland, Ohio, have received
20 per cent advance in wages. An
hourly wage of 80 cents an hour has
been established and not only affects
EMPLOYEES of iron and steel fOundries,
but molders in car wheel, shipbuilding,
stove auto parts, aluminium and brass
factories.
On the great plantation of the Unit
ed States Rubber company in Sumatra
one Of the chief difficulties of the plan
tation managers Is to keep the sources
Of drinking water free from contamina-
tion. The 10000 natives employed on
the plantations show fine disregard
of all the rules of sanitation that are
second nature to an American or Eu-
rOpean.
The strike of 1000 longshoremen
against the United Fruit company, In
effect from Boston to Galveston, has
been settled