Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-10-29
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

It is estimated that $6OO,000,0O0 will
year to finance the purchase of new
equipment.
Makers of electric clothes washers
estimated that 100000 machines will
be made in this country during the
present year.
Traction company employees IN
Worcester, Mass, have formulated de-
mands for an eight-hour day and in
creased wages.
A tractor assembling plant will be
erected at Kansas City, Mo-, with 90
600 square feet of floor space and
daily output Of 100 tractors.
A recent investigation among 600
manufacturing plants revealed that 18
per cent of them granted their factory
workers vacations with pay.
The membership of the United Tex
tile Workers is estimated at about
100000 while that of the Amalga-
mated Is placed at about $4,000.
Since January / increases in wages
of approximately 20 per cent has been
granted to more than 100000 workers
throughout the Pittsburgh district.
If the present production continues
throughout the year rubber factories
in Akron, Ohio, will have manufac-
tured about 28,OOO,OOO automobile
tires.
More than 10000 coal miners in Hi
nois have signed an agreement where
by they will receive an increase of
$50 day instead of the 81 raise they
b,' asked for.
1t is estimated that the country at
large is short about $4,000 100000
worth of normal building construction,
indicating the building program to be
from Is to q months behind.
Thirty-five negro walters struck at
the Clifton hotel at Patchogue, L. l.,
and their places were filled by guests
of the hotel. The strike was called
just as the guests. numbering more
than two hundred, were seated for
dinner.
The Oklahoma Coal Operators asso-
citation granted Oklahoma day and
monthly miners an increase Of $1.50 a
day. and boys who work in the mines
raise Of 80 cents a day above the
present contract. The awards are
retroactive to August 16, 1920.
Labor unions of Manila adopted res
olutions against importation of con-
tract Asiatic laborers into the Phil
ippines, as proposed by the agricul-
tural congress in session at Manila.
The unions appointed committees to
protest to the legislature against pas
sage of q bill admitting Asiatic la
bOrerS.
Representatives of the United Mine
Workers of America, District 13, re-
jected the agreement reached by their
subcommittee and the Iowa coal op-
orators wage scale committee relative
to the price of powder per keg and
the question as to how far back the
wage advances recently awarded
should be retroactive.
The cost of living has continually in
creased In Scandinavia since the be-
ginning of the war, especially in Nor
way and Sweden, but the increase in
Denmark over 1914 figures is only
about 100 per cent, as compared with
23O per cent in Sweden and 100 per
cent in Norway. In nearly all cases
the wage increases since 1914 have
been more than the percentage shown
above.
Crooksville, o., stOneware potteries
have resumed operation in all depart
ments after having been idle since
Aug. 2 on account of walkout of the
jiggermen and ware machine men.
Officials of the Frisco railroad have
announced that no men will be laid
off in the shops at Springfield, Mo-, or
in any other operating branches of the
road, despite the move Of eastern rail-
roads to curtail their working forces.
A program of progress is outlined and
the company needs more men, rather
than discharging any of those in the
service.
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