Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

All logging camps and mills in north
western Wisconsin and the Upper
Michigan Peninsula have cut wages
20 per cent.
The University of Missouri Teach
ers' union, which was affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor has
disbanded, it was announced
1t is expected that the 1920 census
will show that one-third of all per
sons in the United States who are
gainfully employed are women.
The pudding of iron by machinery,
hitherto unaccOmplished in the steel
industry, will be realized in a $1,000
600 plant to be erected near Warren,
o.
A national railroad strike has begun
In Norway. 1t is reported that the
other trade unions pan to strike in
sympathy. Food is being distributed
by coaStwise steamers and motor
trucks.
Bradford, England, is to start at
once the erection of 260 dwellings in
an effort to revive the housing situa-
ton. The city itself is to build the
houses, under the supervision of the
city surveyor. Bricks will be fur
nished by the municipal brickyard
By the use Of airplanes mining ma
chinery is to be taken to a mine in
Utah, and the output of the mine is
to be taken out, reducing the time for
the round trip to a few hours, whereas
it requires six weeks for mule teams
now.
The Book Bearing company, manu-
facturerS of automobile parts, Toledo,
Ohio, announced that the plant, en-
ploying LOO men In normal times, had
been closed down until after the first
of the year" The sales force was re-
tanned, however and sent out on the
road, the announcement said. Unstable
business conditions was given as the
cause of suspension.
Two cooperative tailor shops have
been opened at st. Louis, under the
direction Of the Merchant Tailors' as
sociation, on a plan that will result
In a material reduction In clothing
prices. The work to be done In these
shops is at present perforr1ed by "cOn-
tractors who make up suits after they
have been cut by the merchant tall
orS.
Cancellations of large eastern or
ers, coupled with business conditions
in general, was given as the reason
for the closing of the garment plant
of the Cohen, Friedlander & Martin
company, Toledo, Ohio. An announce
ment from A. M. Streicher, secretary,
said the suspension of the industry
will be indefinite and the 100 men and
women employees were thrown out of
employment as the result.
Some of the New York clothing
manufacturers whose shops have been
shut down pending negotiations with
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America. will attempt to reopen upon
an open-shop basis, 1t is said A con-
certed open-shop movement by the
manufacturers will follow, 1t was
pointed out, unless demands made by
the Clothing Manufacturers Associa-
tion of New York, upon the Amalga-
mated are speedily adjusted.
Increases of 20 per cent In rates
and 10 per cent in salaries to en-
plOy ees, effective December 1, were
announced by the Postal Telegraph
and Cable company through its sec
retary, William ]. Deegan.
Pennsylvania production of bitum-
inous coal in 1919 fell from 151 ,O50, 300
tons to 137.O5s,5OO, although the num-
ber of persons employed In mining was
153,207 last year. against 151. .455 the
year before. The wages paid last year
approximated $196,O24,70O, against
$226,055, 900 in 1918, and the average
number Of days worked was 1OO.