Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-09-23
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Canada has SO brass and copper
plants.
Sixty per cent Of Japan's factory
workers are women.
Express company employees in
Cleveland, o., are being organized.
Radium Is worth approximately 81
S29,47 an ounce, or 136,936 times as
much as gold.
Deck officers of American ships
have agreed to accept Is per cent
reduction In wages.
The Arizona supreme court has de-
clared unconstitutional the employees
industrial compensation law.
A majority of the Baltimore build
ing trades unions have agreed to ac-
cept 10 per cent wage cut.
Flour milling plants In Kansas City
are running "a hours day and Sun
days, on larger scale than ever.
More than 10000 coke workers in
the Connellsville, Pa, district are af-
fected by the wage cut Of 10 per cent.
New Orleans theaters locked out or
ganized musicians who refused to alb
rogate a contract and accept a 20 per
cent wage reduction.
Wages Of 10000 bar iron workers
employed between Pittsburgh and the
Pacific coast were cut from 10 to 10
per cent by agreement.
The offices of the Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers International as
sociatiOn have been moved from In
dianapolis to st. Louis.
Ten per cent pay reduction, effective
October l, was announced by the E. l.
du Pont de Nemours company, Will
mington, Del. The cut will affect all
salaries, from the president down.
The wage scale of the Amalgamated
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has been
fixed for twelve months. Last years
scale, with per cent reduction for
workers engaged as helpers in steel
rolling, will prevail.
The Neckwear Makers, union reject
ed proposal Of the manufacturers for
Is per cent wage cut, and issued a
general strike ultimatum to the inde-
pendent manufacturers, who constitute
a majority of the trade.
Trenton, N. j., is to have a labor
temple costing $1,OOO,OOO. One of the
principal features of the institution
will be cooperative store, where all
lines of merchandise will be sold to
members of trade unions
A four months tie-up in the build
ing industry In San Francisco ended
Aug. 80, when several thousand union
craftsmen returned to work on the
employers terms, which included a
cut of 71a per cent In wages.
A decrease of 26.6 per cent in en-
ployment, accompanied by a 23.5 per
cent pay roll decrease between July
1, 1920, and July 1, 1921, In the Eighth
district is shown by figures presented
in the monthly report Of the Federal
Reserve Bank Of st. Louis.
Submission of the proposal for a
reduction of 20 per cent In wages OF
boot and shoe workers to the Massa-
chusetts state board of arbitration
and Cancellation was agreed to by the
Shoe Manufacturers association and
seven local unions. Complete agree
ment is expected.
The Mittineague and Woronoco
plants of the StrathmOre Paper COM
pany, Springfield, Mass, which were
closed August Is, reopened with a full
force of employees. Officials an
nounced that the outlook is somewhat
brighter in the paper business.
Failure to agree upon new wage
and working agreement resulted In
strike Of 300 tailors employed in sixty
women's tailoring shops in Chicago
The strike follows lockout by twelve
shops after employees had refused tC
accept n 20 per cent wage cut and
change In working conditions.