Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-12
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

CigaIrnakerS in Jacksonville. Fla,
have advanced rates 81 per 1000.
Nevada mines mills and quarres
employ more than 10000 persons.
More than 10000 persons are EN-
ployed in the jute trade in Great Brit
ain.
In the United States shoe workers
are receiving a wage scale of 81 per
hour.
Through the closing of the Berlin
railway repair shops 1000 workers
temporarily are without employment.
Nearly l, 100000 persons are engaged
in tte mining Industry in Great Brit
ain.
The National Confederation Of
Workers IN Spain, comprising 1,OoO,OOO
members. has been dissolved
Wages OF SO day for journeymen
bricklayers in San Francisco have been
approved by employers.
OF the more than 10000 laborers en-
ployed IN the Finnish paper industry,
70 per cent are men and 30 per cent
women.
An increase in pay of 25 per cent
for the Panama canal zone police Is an
uounced. About 200 men benefit by
he raise.
The French Teachers congress has
voted for the affiliation Of new
teachers union with the general con
federation Of labor.
The strike Of 1900 carpenters In
Springfield, Mass, ended with an In
crease in wages granted by contrac-
tors.
Most of the anthracite mines in the
vicinity OF HaZletOn, Pa, which closed
on account of a storm, resumed. II
Is estimated, however, that produc-
ZION will be cut go per cent.
Union cigarmakers IN 81 factories
in Cincinnati, threaten to strike unless
they are granted 16A per cent In
crease in wages. Twelve hundred men
are involved.
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters asso-
citation reported that less than one
third OF the striking Filipino plantation
laborers on the Island of Oahu had re-
turned to work.
A bin has been presented to the
Italian parliament providing for an
eight-hour day and 4S-hour week for
nearly all industries. Special provi-
sions are made for technical and agri-
cultural industries.
All the public teachers at Lawton.
Okla, 20 In number, resigned when
their request for % per cent raise
was refused, according to news dis
patch received at Fort Worth. The
schools will close.
Street car service was resumed at
Columbia S. c., under a new wage
agreement providing for minimum OF
A cents an hour and a maximum OF
81 cents, with II days vacation with
pay year.
At a meeting OF the international
executive board OF the United Mine
Workers Of America Frank J. Hayes
resigned as international president
The board advanced Vice President
John l.. Lewis to the office Of presi-
dent. and Phillip Murray president Of
the Pittsburgh district, was chosen
vice president.
minimum wage scale Of SO day
for all male industrians and 81 for
female industrians will be placed in
effect by the Goodyear Tire and Rub
her company March 15. The term in
austrian, as employed by the Good.
year Tire and Rubber company Is de-
fined as factory worker eighteen or
more years old, who has spent six
consecutive months In the employ Of
the company.
general strike has been called
throughout Bulgaria, according to a
Budapest dispatch. The railways have
ceased operations, the dispatch says,
and only a few special trains are be
ing run by the military to supply es-
sential foods.
The Cooperative Wholesale society,
composed of workers In Manchester,
England, has invested $6OOO,000 in
farms and land for food production.
A wooden mill has been started with
promising results. SO prosperous is
the society that it sells some Of it's
products below eO@G