Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Female trade unionists in Sweden
now number more than $4,000.
Italy's button factories produce
about 100000 gross of buttons yearly.
Truck drivers in the Texas oil fields
are demanding minimum wage rate
of $15 per day.
The average wage of wOL.cn work
ers in Japan is $4.67 per week for II
hours work day.
Thirty thousand employees Of the
Tatag iron and steel works at Jamal-
plr, Bengal, went on strike.
Wood working factories at Jasper,
Ind, were closed, 225 employees going
on strike for increased wages.
1t is estimated that the total men,
bership of the United Mine Workers
has now passed the $4,000 mark.
South African diamond mine own
ers have decided to limit the supply
according to the prevailing state of
markets.
In all but three states-Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming - the
amount of wo"kingmen's compensation
is based upon wages.
The ticup CT Sioux City car lines
ended, the striking workers at the
Sioux City Service company's power
plant returning to work. The men
obtained part of their demands.
Coincident with steps taken by
President Wilson to expedite an ad-
justment of the pending railroad
wage dispute, the organized employees
of the roads issued an announcement
Of their Intention no longer to resist
the new railroad Legislation, but to
cooperate with the government 10 the
establishment of permanent ma
chinery Of wage adjustments.
Official figures given, cut by the
South Wales Coal Owners association
show the weekly (4S hOurs) wages
paid to 10000 skilled miners, from
which II appears that about 270OOsre-
ceiyed less than $14.60 per week ia
July, 1914, but that all except about
TOO were earning more than this In
November, 1918, and that nearly 20
600 were In receipt Of weekly wage
eyreeding $21.90 at that time.
Announcement was made that the
the Newton steel plant located In New
ton Falls, eleven miles west of War
rem, Ohio, would produce its first steel,
using eight mills, April ]. The other
two mills will be ready to begin opera
hon a month later. Sufficient fuel to
assure continued operation is stocked,
an official said. Sheet steel for auto
mobile tenders and bodies will be man
ufactured. Construction of the mill
began last summer
Demanding an increase OF from 37H
cents an hour to 471s cents, 800 girls
In the finishing department of Parke,
Davis & Co., wholesale druggists De-
troit, Mich, went on strike. The de-
partment fills, wraps, corks, labels
and packs products for shipment. f.
G. Swift, secretary and general mana
ger of the company, said adjustments
would be made, but would not predict
whether terms asked would be given.
He said most of the strikers do piece
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$75 to $50 month.
The strike of the railway men
throughout France was settled on the
following points: The right of men
to organize will be respected through
out the railroad systems Of France.
The railroad men accept arbitration
on points not as yet settled and an
immediate study of future rules for
railroads will be begun. The COM
panies will not pay wages to the men
for time time lost during the strike.
but disciplinary penalties for nonre-
sumption Of work after the men had
been summoned will be Cancelled. Di-
rectOrs of companies will revise other
penalties In the spirit Of justice.
Five hundred members Of the Brick
layers union went on strike at Provi-
dence, r. l., tying up all large con-
struction work. They demand $1.25
an hour for an eight-hour day, the
present scale being 81 an hour. The
contractors offer a compromise or
$1.15, which has been rejected.
New York faced the possibility Of
a false tooth famine when 500 men,
bers Of the Dental Workers Industrial
union struck for a forty-four-hour
week and a 30 per cent raise in wages.
Strikera' officials said some Of the
members WoE&ad serenity h0uys