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


paid 81 an hour.
The world output of silk amounts to
about 700 tons a day.
Philadelphia makes so per cent Of
the cOuntry's glazed kid.
Papermakers in Chattanooga, Tenn,
are 100 per cent organized
Sweden has 90 woolen mills with ap-
proXimately 100000 spindIes.
Canada has 68 plants engaged in
the manufacture of electrical goods.
The Goodrich Tire and Rubber COM
pany of Akron, o., employs 27 teach
ers in its Americanization school.
The building trades organization of
the American Federation of Labor has
declared war on the zone Big Union"
idea.
The number of unemployed in Ber
lin on July IS was 357, 7,143, as against
800, ,126 on July /, according to official
statistics.
Boot and shoe workers in Wilkes
barre, Pa, have received an increase
of 10 to Is per cent in wages through
negotiations.
Furniture makers in johannesburg,
South Africa, are so busy that they
are unable to take all the orders that
are forthcoming.
Operated by compressed air directed
by one man, new implement for use
above the mines literally shovels ore
from piles into cars.
The 10000 separate manufacturing
places In Philadelphia are operated by
an army of skilled mechanics number
ing more than 100000.
The first locomotive with steel
springs was built in England just 100
years ago, and is still to be seen in
the South Kensington museum.
The highest point yet reached in
trade union membership in Canada
was in 1919, when the total number Of
trade unionists reached 337,087.
For testing concrete a government
laboratory in Europe has installed a
hydraulic press with a crushing force
| Of 1000 tons to the square inch.
A loss in production of 10000 dozen
pairs of hosiery is expected to result
| from the curtailment of operations in
| the mills in eastern Pennsylvania.
In Baltimore a decrease of from 30
to 40 per cent is found in the output
| of labor. Wages in the textile indus
try have been doubled, but production
| has decreased more than so per cent
Anticipating a lockout, the metal
workers Of Milan, Italy, seized the fac
tories. A dispatch said the workers
are in full possession and are threaten
| ing the owners with violence. The
situation is serious.
A strike of press feeders employed
| In printing plants in Boston and vi
| cinity spread from small beginning
until about 600 were out. The plants
| affected publish magazines and school
books and do general printing. They
employ about 1000 persons in all de-
partments. The press feeders strike
| is to enforce demands for a wage in
| crease
A new wage schedule affecting about
$4,000 navy yard employees will be put
| into effect on the first pay day after
| September IS. Secretary Daniel an
nounced that he had completed his re-
view of the findings of the navy yard
wage board and that the increases ap-
proved would be ready for application
during the present month. The sched-
ule will be made public later.
Oscar M. Miller Of the Standard Oil
company Of New Jersey opposed the
closed shop principle in an address at
New York, favoring the establish
ment of advisory councils in corpora \
lions upon which men and managers
have representation. Working condi-
tions could be thrashed out by such a
council for presentation to the man.
agement in the most favorable form.
he said
All but two barber shops granted
the demands Of Detroit organized bar
bers for shorter hours and a new
wage scale, 1t was reported at the
unions headquarters. Agreements
with the two shops were expected. The
BARRIERS demand an 11-hour day and
a 13-hour day On Saturday instead of
the former IL and 14-hour schedule,
and also demanded a guarantee of
$50 week and 60 per cent of all they
take in over $40 a week, instead of a
S25 guarantee and 60 per cent Of all
over $35.
Members of the Sailors, Engineers
and Cooks union of Canada have made
a demand upon the various steamship
companies for an increase of 25 per
cent In wages. The union decided to
give the companies until September
20 to reply.
A new union has been organized in
Muncie, Ind. 1t 1t a strikeless union
composed Of the stationary engineers
Of the city, and is known as the Mum
Gle Association Of Stationary En-
gineers. Resolutions declaring the or
ganzation shall not be used for the
furtherance of strikes were adopted.