Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-09-02
OTHER NOTES OF LABOR

| burluS TIE 1dSL ten years tie IdUOT
union membership in France increased
from 977,000 to 2,5O0,000.
| The resumption of subway construc-
| ton in Berlin, Germany will give work
| to more than 5000 people.
More than two hundred women have
| applied for admission to the next class
of the school for policewomen In New
| York.
About 5000 persons, mostly women,
are employed in the cotton goods In
| dustry In the Troon district Of Scot
| land.
| An explosion due to fire damp
caused the death of 6S miners and In
| jury to 73 others In a German coal
mine recently.
The International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
has moved its headquarters from Indi-
annapolis to st. Louis.
Compared with year ago the aver
age weekly earnings for all manufac-
| turing industries in New York state
show a decrease of $3.50.
The German Teachers union, which
has a membership of 10000, has de-
| cided to adopt the principles and meth
| DDS of trade unions.
The number of employees Of railroad
| companies in Glass l dropped to 1888
482 on March 15, from 1,676,543 in
February and 1,9O4,S2 in January.
The Yokohama Dockyards company
has discharged $4,000 workmen be-
cause of dull commercial conditions,
and 1000 more will be dismissed soon.
The child labor bill was voted down
in the Missouri house for the second
time. The bill was lost two days be-
fore, but taken up for vote Of recon
sideration.
The wage dispute between the cot
ton workers and employers In Man
chester, England, has been settled, the
operatives having accepted the terms
of the employers.
A wage reduction of III per cent
for workers on New York state rail-
ways in Rochester, Syracuse and Utica
has been announced by the arbitration
board.
Owing to unemployment many per-
sons are destitute IN Birmingham, Ala,
and the city commission has issued
proclamation calling for emergency re-
| lief measures.
The town of Possneck in Thuringia
is unique in Germany in that it does
not harbor single unemployed person.
The big boom in the textile mills and
building trade makes the demand for
workers exceed the supply.
Nine thousand Philadelphia carpen-
ters, who had been on strike since
May /, accepted the terms laid down
by their employers, including a ma
tertal reduction in wages. Contrac-
tors claimed the carpenters action
probably would bring to an end the en-
tire building trades strike, which was
called when a lower wage scale for
| all classes Of labor was announced.
At the meeting at Niagara Falls,
Ont of about 40 executive officers Of
the trades operating on the Chippewa
development, which was attended by
an organizer for the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, a resolution was
adopted denouncing as "unjustifable
and unWarranted" the proposed reduc-
ton In wages scheduled to follow the
wedding out Of workers now In prog
ress.
The British government has decided
| SSpa ot
WoolWich arsenal by no fewer than
b,7OO The men will be discharged
after weeks notice in weekly patches
Of 300, and where possible informal no
tice will be given earlier. The pres
ent strength of the arsenal establish
ment is approximately 10000. but at
the time of the armistice $1,000 work
people were employed,
The resignation Of William Burgess,
vice president Of the United States
| Potters' association, was accepted at
the summer meeting held at Bedford
| Springs Pa. The vacancy will be filed
at the associations annual meeting to
be held In Washington, d. O., the first
week In December Mr.. Burgess was
recently appointed to the tariff board
by President Harding.
break in the strike Of employees
in the Job printing offices at Ottawa,
Ont, occurred when the bookbinders
returned to work under the old scale
of $35 a week for 48 hours. Typo
graphical workers and pressmen are
| still out.
The earnings Of factory workers In
New York state in May showed a con-
tinued decline. The decrease in aver
age weekly earnings for the state as
whole was "a cents, the average earn
ings being $25.86. The reduction in
weekly earnings since last October
! amountS to co NJ mr. n nor cent