Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-02-20
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

Italy ranks third in the production
of graphite.
In general the present wage scale
In Belgium, as compared with June,
to 200 per cent
The compensation of railroad EN-
ployees in the United States in 1913
was more than the gross earnings Of
the railroads ten years ago.
The establishment Of $6,0O0,0OO
sugar refinery in Mexico by American
and Mexican capital, will restore the
Industry in that country.
Marine engineers along the Atlantic
coast, who have been receiving $195
per month, will under a new wage
scale, receive $275 per month.
The union of manufacturers at Es-
sen has decided not to deliver any
more goods to France until German
prisoners are sent back to Germany.
Freeport Qll.) union carpenters
have given notice to contractors that
beginning April ] they will demand
81 per hour, an increase Of 10 cents
over the old scale.
Railroad builders in South Africa
have enabled work to be done at night
by equipping a freight car with an
electric plant and mounting search
lights on projecting arms.
The Canadian Machinists' union,
under an assessment plan, will be able
to raise a fund of $2,O0O,OO0, which
they will use as a defense fund to
fight their employers for higher
wages.
Statistics show that 100000
American wage earners lose an aver
age of nine days year through sick
ness, amounting to loss of $675, 5,0O0-
600, with cost for medical treatment
of $1S0,OOO,OOO.
Newspaper publishers in Halifax,
N. S., have agreed to the demands of
the International Typographical union
and will hereafter pay printers at
the rate of $50 week for day work
and $50 week for night work.
Women cotton factory workers in
Colombia earn from 80 to 60 cents a
day, the average wage being about 33
cents. Men earn from 80 cents to
$1.3O per day, the latter wage being
that of the most skilled mechanic.
Census bureau reports show that
In 1917 there were In the United
States over 100000 telephones and
53,2S4 separate telephone systems, EN-
plOying 262,629 persons, of whom
III ,119, or over 65 per cent, were
women.
In Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
an elaborate housing scheme for the
working people has been undertaken
by the government at the instance of
organized labor. Under the plan
houses costing $1,000 are constructed
by the government and sold TO the
workers on weekly payments of $500
The total number of laborers in
Denmark is about 255,OO0 and the av-
erage working day nine and One-half
hours. The working day, of course,
varies in different trades. In 1918,
10 per cent of the labOrers had Il
working day of more than ten hours
27.S per cent, ten hours; 1876 per
cent nine and one-half hours; 14.5
per cent, nine hours; 4.3 per cent,
eight and one-half hours; SO per
cent, eight hours, and II per cent
less than eight hours.
Five hundred loom tixers and twist
ers in twenty silk mills between
Mauch Chunk, Reading, and Easton
Pa, struck. More than 1000 are in.
vOlved
The aggregate earnings of employ
ees in Great Britain and Ireland for
July, 1919, show large advances over
the same time the previous year. Six,
teen trades show increases ranging
from 22.5 per cent in the jute trade
to 64.9 per cent In the cement trade
while the tailoring trades show an In.
crease of 1873 per cent. The hosiery
and linen trades show decreases oi
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