Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

4'NN AColdhu Ou average VI
100000 tons of coal annually.
The 1874 locals affiliated with the In
ternational Bookbinders' union now
have a membership of more than
1000.
Increased wages paid to coal miners
In New Zealand are responsible for
only 3S per cent of the increased cost
Of production.
From August s. 1918, to December
81, 1919, "a cargo carriers and four
army transports were launched at the
Hog Island shipyard.
Albert Rose, who has just retired
after Sc years of service in the Chat
ham (England) dockyard, was never
late and never lost an hour.
BY putting their workers on a piece
work basis a New Bedford (Mass)
textile mill has been able to increase
production nearly 40 per cent.
A committee Of Is will revise the
industrial accident code in the state
of Washington and submit the same in
the next legislature for action.
New Jersey is forty-sixth among the
states Of the Union in point of size,
but is fifteenth in value Of it's min
eral products and third in value per
square mile.
Full agreement on differences on
wages and working conditions in the
Iowa coal fields was reached by sub
committees of miners and operators,
1t was announced by the operators.
Ten thousand men went back to
work at New York after employers of
two-thirds of the striking painters
signed a new wage scale agreement
under which they will receive $40 a
day instead Of SO, union officials an
nOunced.
Declaring that it was not their in.
tention to fight union labor, but to
"stOp union domination" Of their
plants, seven of the largest ship build
ing and repair plants of Mobile, Ala,
announced an "open shop" policy.
The company officials in a public no.
tice announced that all union men in
their employ desiring to remain would
be kept at work.
Official figures given out by the
South Wales Coal Owners association
show the weekly (48 hours) wages
paid to 10000 skilled miners, from
which it appears that about 27,OOO re-
ceived less than $14.60 per week in
July, 1914, but that all except about
700 were earning more than this in
November, 1918, and that nearly 10000
were in receipt of a weekly wage ex-
ceeding $21.90 at that time.
Resolutions favoring passage of a
territorial law to permit importation
into the Philippines of contract la
Dor from China, Java, Indo-C China and
India were adopted by the agricultural
congress held at Manila, addressed by
representatives from many sections Of |
the Philippines. The resolutions de-
clare that the importation Of contract
laborers will result in the rapid eco
nomic development of the islands.
Indefinite postponement of general |
strike of thousands of workers in the |
building trades of New York-carpen-
ters, bricklayers, plasterers, electrical |
men, house wreckers laborers and sta |
tionary engineers and fremen-was |
agreed upon at special meeting or |
the several unions representatives. |
D. D. Glenday, general secretary of |
the International Carpenters union,
said 1t would not be necessary for any |
more men to go out.
By survey Of conditions existing In
500 factories in New York where wom-
en- were employed 1t was found that |
the average rate Of wages for the fe-
males was SIG in 88 per cent Of the
establishments, an amount less than
persons could live on decently.
The cost Of building is so high In
New Zealand that private capital is
not attracted to the erection Of homes,
so the government has assumed the
responsibility. There are more build
ings in course Of construction in New
Zealand at this time than ever before
In the history of the country.