Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-08
OTHER LABOR NOTES

UIHEh LAbUh NU IES
Akron, O., has % rubber manufac-
turing plants.
San Francisco laborers now receive
Sc per day for eight hours.
Seventy-five years ago the annual
production Of paper in the world was
only 100000 tons.
Ninety cents an hour is the latest
scale Of wages granted to machnists
In Hamilton, Ont
About so per cent Of the wall paper
manufactured in America is made un-
der union conditions
By 1921 the American Federation Of
Labor expects to have a membership
of more than 100000.
The Sleeping Car Conductors union
has increased its membership to more
than $500.
The greater part Of the textile in
dustry in New England is operated on
a basis Of Al hours a week
F. ]. Mears, who Is rapidly coming
to the front In England as an artist,
was formerly a metal worker.
Union labor's $4,000 cooperative
store in Topeka, Kan, is doing an av-
erage daily business Of over S1,1OO.
The average life of a machine file is
$4,000 strokes and to employ file for
more doubles the cost of the work be-
ing done.
The International Union Of Bricklay-
ers, Masons and Plasterers now has
$50 local unions, with a total men,
bership of 10000.
Over 85 per cent Of the electrical
supplies, not including electrical ma
chinery, used in Australia comes from
the United States.
Taking the country as whole, there
are now 100000 employees drawing
government pay, or 25O.OOO more than
there were in April, 1917.
In the automotive industry Ameri-
can workmen are able to produce in
one year the result Of seven years on
the part of European artisans.
There are 5000 salmon fishers in
San Francisco who go once a year to
Alaska for the annual pack. Their
wages aggregate $6,0O0,000.
The Federation of Union Workers,
the most powerful labor organization
In Mexico, has appointed committee
to take up with other workers organ
iZatiOns throughout the republic the
question of uniting all into one con-
federation.
Secretaries of 10000 local unions
throughout the United States were
asked to read at meetings of each
union the declaration of labOr's pOlit-
ical purpose, written by Samuel Com
pers under the title Labor Political
Banner Unfurled."
If Japanese mills had been able to
obtain deliveries of all machinery or
dered from English and United States
builders since 1914, their equipment
would now aggregate about 100000
spindles. The actual spindlage, how
ever, is not over 3,250,O0O
Trade councils composed of repre-
sentatives of employers associations
and of trade unions in a particular
trade or section of an industry are
as a first court of appeal
In the case of disputes which may
arise among workers in England.
A novel strike began near COmpiegne,
France, where a number of men were
engaged In reconstruction work. Two |
hundred and fifty wOrkmen laid down
their tools, not because their working
day was too long, but because it was
100 short. They objected to the eight
hour law. which limits their earning
capacity. They wanted to work two |
hours extra daily, but that course |
would bring them into conflict with the
egal authorities. When Informed of |
his they quit.
In December. 1919, the production of
he coal mines in Belgium, was "a per
cent of what it was in 1913, although |
abor employed amounted to 104 per
cent.
The 1919 output of Oil in the United
States, 415,000000 barrels, would all
low over Niagara Falls IL three hours
md four minutes. according to mathe-
naticians.
The Marconi company announces
hat the strike Of its wireless opera
ors, which began June Is for an in
rease In wages and better conditions
# employment. has been settled.