Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-06-18
OTHER LABOR NOTES

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Cutlery workers In Sheffield, Eng,
are earning as much as $97.23 week.
On January l this year there were
1O2,950 federal employees at the ma
| tional capital.
The total membership Of all British
labor unions at the beginning of 1919
was 6624,OOO.
This year farm laborers In many
states demand from $50 to 500 per
month and board.
More than $4,000 persons are EN-.
| plOyed in the various lines Of motor
| industry in Canada.
st. Joseph was selected as the
1921 convention city by the Missouri
Federation of Labor.
Since 1918 the wages Of gold beaters
in the United States have been In
creased 1913 per cent.
Artificial silk establishments in Bel
GUM are now employing about so
per cent of their 1914 personnel.
Federal employees in New Haven,
Conn, have organized and affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor.
A 20 per cent increase in salaries
has been granted school teachers OF
Madison, Ga, by the city board Of
education.
The doctors of Quimper, In Brit
tany, France, formed trade union
and decided not to attend strikers and
their families.
Wages Of railway workers in Eng
land are automatically increased one
shilling week when the cost Of living
increases five points.
The February average weekly earn
ing of factory workers In New York
state was S2647, or practically the
same as the average for January.
On the basis of salaries authorized
II months ago the board of regents
of the Kirksville. Mo, Teachers col
lege has announced another increase
of approximately % per cent.
Eight hours pay will be donated by
the New York clothing workers to-
ward defense fund" for the local
organization OF the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America.
Commissioner Dennis A. Murphy Of
fered 44O men in the street depart
ment Of Lowell. Mass, an Increase Of
% cents day, beginning June ]. The
expense of the increase will be $lS.6d2.
The miners convention of subdIs-
trict No. 8, at Christopher, H.. exon
Grated President Lon Fox, Vice Prcsi-
dent d. B. Cobb and Secretary John
Black from charges brought by miners
of the BelleviIe district, growing out
OF the strike last fall.
Cinema operators of Denver. Colo.
under n new wage scale effected by
|. A. 4. S. f.. now receive ST an
hour, work six hours a day. However,
they are on duty seven days a week.
which totals A. hours, and the new
scale is $3.50. The old scale was $50
and $35.
Finland has no labor difficulties,
said its foreign minister, DR. Il. HOl-
ste, who Is on a visit to London, Eng,
in explaining the steadness and prom
ise of his cOuntry's economic and in
dustrial recovery. All the factories
are working well, and they were able
to export all sorts Of timber products,
wood pulp paper. textile goods and
so on.
Readjustment of wage rates for
skilled labor in all navy yards and
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working on government contracts viii
be made before July l by special
board representing the navy depart
ment, the shipping board and the or.
ganiZed crafts. The readjustment
will affect about 10000 men 10 navy
yards aud 10000 in shipyards.
The AmaIgamated Clothing Workers
of America declared in favor of 10
hour working week. The clothing
workers voted to organize a special
educational department, which the
resolution said would include not only
economic and industrial instruction.
but also art. science and culture gen
orally. The object was said TO be the
creation of educational machinery In
every industrial center.
representative of the Independent
Paper Mills. Holyoke. Mass. said that
these mills would concur with the ad-
justment reached by the American
Writing Paper company In granting q
wage increase Of IN per cent to itS
union employees. The union had de-
manded 1914 per cent, but the com
promise offer means a total increase
of 20 per cent since February 1. Thi"
apparently ends the controversy be-
tween the Eagle Lodge of Paper Max
ers and the paper manufacturers.
The French General Confederation
of Labor decided to call off the strikes
1t had ordered in support of the rail-
way mems walkOut. The decision for
the resumption Of work was reached
by vote OF 96 to IL.
Following negotiations between the
Spanish authorities and food handling
syndicates. workers accepted a solu-
ton of questions involved in the pres
ent strike, which was proposed to
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