Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-01
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Canada is now producing some 10
600 tons of asbestos a year.
At the close of 1919 the hours
worked averaged At per week.
Strikes in the United States in the
first five months of the present year
caused a loss in wages of S1O4,443,-
$40.
In many localities throughout the
United States manufacturers are smut
ting down their plants TO readjust
wages.
English silk mills have ceased to
work overtime because of great de-
crease in the English demand for silk
en- wear.
An attempt is being made to or
ganize the retail clerks in Canada so
that their working conditions can be
bettered.
The first trade union in America
was the Mechanics Union of Trade
Associations, organized in Philadel-
phia in 1927.
Prince Albert of England is known
as "The Industrial Prince" because OF
his keen interest in economic queS-
tions, his belief that he is not mem
ber of "the idle rich" and the pOpu-
Iarity he has won with wage-earnerS
with whom he frequently cOnverses.
The executive committee of the
Denver Tramway Workers union, at
a meeting, appointed a committee OF
three to call upon Frederick w. Hid,
general manager of the tramWay, and
inform him that the striking tram
men would go back TO work. Henry
Silberg, president of the union, said
there We're no restrictions.
The closing down of Japanese fac
tories on account of the existing de-
preston in business has especially at-
fected the hat shirt and umbrella
makers of Toxic. Five thousand
workmen are idle and facing want
In the Osaka district more than 2OO
factories have been shut.
Employees appeared before the ma
val wage board to ask increases rang
ing from % to 45 cents an hour for
employees of the 43 navy yards. AS
siStant Secretary Roosevelt told the
men the increases they sought were
impracticable at this time and that
with the present appropriations If
wages are raised personnel must be
reduced.
The action of the executive commit
tee brought to an official end the
strike Of 900 trainmen which began
August l. The strike turned Denver
into an armed camp following riot
ing. The total Of deaths as a result
of the riOting was raised to seven,
following the death of Leonard A. Ten
ner a Union Pacific shopman, in
hospital
The strike of Filipino employees of
American newspapers in Manila in pro-
test against printed articles declaring
the Philippine islands not ready for
independence, was called off. The
Bulletin and Cable News, American
owned. made no concessions to the
strikers. it was announced. The
Times has changed management.
George H. Fairchild, a sugar planter
and exporter. has obtained control.
The Times will hereafter advocate a
territorial form of government, un-
der sovereignty of the United States,
the management said.
Increased wages were awarded So
600 employees of the American Rail-
way express company in a decision
handed down by the United States
railway labor board, which has heard
their claims. All employees of the
express company, with the exception
of $500 shopmen who were benefited
by the 13 cents increase granted July
20 in the $6OO,OOOOOO award to the
100000 railway workers, will be af-
fected by the decision. The award is
the second to be made by the railway
labor board, which was created by the
Esch-C Cummins transportation act.