Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-21
OTHER NOTES OF INTEREST

GLASS workers IN INDIANA nave re-
ceived 20 per cent increase in wages.
The Washington State Federation
Of Labor will establish weekly la
Dor paper in Seattle.
The sugar mills Of the Dutch West
Indies use more betting than any 9th
er industry on the islands.
Over 100000 carpenters in the
United States are affiliated with the
Brotherhood Of Carpenters.
There are thousands of Chinese
women working in the Shanghai silk
mills for a daily wage of from , TO 10
cents.
Probably about 20 per cent gas coal
and so per cent steam coal are used
in the various industrial plants and
railways of Norway.
The Madison (Me.) woolen mill re-
opened under wage scale of 2213
per cent less than has been paid.
About $50 are employed.
More than $2OO,OOO was deposited
in the Locomotive Engineers Coop
erative National bank in Cleveland
the first week it was open.
An average of four men were EN-
plOyed to construct each of the $50.
600 passenger automobiles manufac
tured in the country last year.
From 1912 to 1917 the average in
crease in wages to employees Of all
he electric railways in the United
States amounted to % per cent.
j. & F. Coats, thread manufacture
ers. Pawtucket, X. l.. closed their
mills from December "a to January 9.
About $500 are employed in the
plant.
Chicago city machinists were grant
ed wage increase of ST a day by
the councils finance committee. This
brings their wages up to $40 a day
the union scale.
For the year ended June 80. 1919
there were in New York state 65,535
factories. 1920 bakeries. 267 can
neries and 3O2 evaporators, with
1884 1888 employees.
More than 5000 iron puddlers in
| five months. accepted the Reading
Iron company's offer of $1625 ton
| and returned to work
The 700 union st. Louis walters
| who struck October | for a closed
| shop, began returning under the open
shop plan. A depleted treasury caused
| the men to discontinue the strike
About $4,000 typewriters will he
: manufactured this year. This means
approximately 1900 a day. or nearly
| 700 an hour night and day the year
round. Over so per cent of the
worlds output is produced in the
United States
Earnings of New York states fac
| tory workers in November showed a
| slight decreaSe-23 cents-frOm Octo-
| ber. Although employment has de-
| clined steadily since last spring the
earnings have remained almost sta
tionary since June, when they were
S2S.77 In July they were $2S.49, in
August $2S.71, in September S2S.73
| and in October $2S.93.
Employees of the New Bern IN. c.
Iron Works and Supply company
voted to disregard the profit-sharing
agreement recently entered into with
the company and to go on strike. Pay
received by the workers, the first un-
| der the new plan, which was based on
profits of the concern above operating
expenses, amounted 10 a reduction Of
| 10 per cent from the amount received
the previous week.
or I
fused the request of the manufacture
ers that they consent TO the abolition
of the wage bonus of % per cent
which was included in peace agree
ment between the manufacturers and
union men. Joint council No. !,
United Shoe Workers of America
notified the Manufacturers aSSOcia-
tiOn that it had been rejected "be
cause the manufacturers had failed
to show that by the abolition of the
bonus, an increase Of business would
be secured"
At Three Rivers, Quebec, the plants
of the WalasnO Cotton company and
the Tidewater Shipping company
closed for ten days. The Canada Iron
Foundry company also shut down one
of its departments indefinitely. Hun
dreds of workers are affected
From SO establishments, operating
1881 broad looms and 12,0O4 spindles
in $780, the silk industry of the United
States has grown until in 1919 there
were 98,889 broad looms and 1907 ,481
Tn tbxa 1haN Of
employees was increased from 6,649
to 1924.