Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-16
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Dyers employed in the Paterson On,
J) silk mills have been granted a Al
hour working week, but no increase
in pay.
Equal representation for women and
men in the governing boards OF the
federated trade unions of Belgium has
been accomplished.
Servant girls in Des Moines, Ia, are
contemplating the forming of a union
with view to securing shorter work
ing hours and higher wages.
Members Of the Aurora Ol) police
department demanded that they be
placed on an eight-hour day. Men
were working 10 and II hours a day.
Factory employees in New York
state worked shorter hours and their
weekly earnings were II per cent
greater in August than year previ-
Ous
From September, 1914, to March,
1919, the hourly earnings Of men en-
ployed in eight leading industries in
the United States increased by from "A
to 112 per cent.
At Antwerp before the war the num-
Der Of persons working in IA groups
of industry ranged from 2O,7OO to
21,70O, but in March, 1919, this num-
Der had dwindled to 2,300.
In San Francisco upholstering shops
are refusing to pay the new wage rate
to women members of the UphOlster-
ers union, with the result that the
men employees are refusing to work.
Moving picture machine operators
in HobOken, n j., have put in a de-
mand for an increase in wages from
15 to 30 per cent, the scale to be fixed
according to the seating capacity and
price of admission.
Agreements have been signed by en-
ployers and work people in the woolen
and wOrsted industry in the West rid
ing of Yorkshire, England, providing
for the periodic adjustment of wages
in correspondence with variations in
the cost of living.
Indications of an increasing molina
ton to work on the part Of the Ba-
varian wage earners is seen in the re-
solve Of the Christian trade unions to
refuse to rest on Saturday and also
on Revolution day, as had been re-
Quested by the industrial council and
the socialist party.
OF the 38,O00,0O0 working men and |
women in the United States, the di-
vision of safety engineering finds that |
700 OO0 annually lose limbs or ora Ioid |
up by accident for an average of four |
weeks. The money loss in wages ag-
gregates $50,0O0,000 Human careless |
ness is chiefly responsible; and in only |
u per cent of the cases are indus
trial accidents proven to be directly |
to machinery.
The British Engineering and Ship !
building Trades federation has ap-
pointed a committee of six to coop
crate Jointly with a similar committee
from the Employers federation to in
vestigate and report On the economic
effect of a 44-hour week throughout
the industry. 1t is proposed that the
shall visit the United
States to ascertain the introduction of
q 44hour week in the Shipbuilding
yards there,
A general strike throughout Great
Britain is planned for February by the
so-called triple alliance, composed of
railway men, miners and transport
it was reliably reported Ma
of the mines will be the
chief demand of the alliance, and,
unless the government acquiesces, the
stage is reported set for a solid walk
out of all miners, railway and trans
port workers. AS was done previous
to the recent big railway tie-up, the
government has begun to take prepara-
tory steps to meet the strike, should it
The Cooperative Wholesale society
composed of workers in Manchester,
England, has invested $6,0OO00O in
farms and land for food production. A
woOlen mill has been started with
promising results. So prosperous is
the society that it sells some of its
products below cost.
Germany is considering the project
Df electrification of its railways. It
IS officially announced that the cleo
-rltication will be carried out by pro-
gressive stages. HIgh-pOwer plants
will be established in coal regions and
the current carried from them to sub