Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-05-13
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Many building trades workers
walked out at Omaha, Neb., refusing
a reduction In pay.
Fifteen hundred men in the Des
Moines, Iowa. building trades were
idle. They refused to accept q wage
slash.
At Walla Walla, Wash, wage re-
ductions of 20 per cent for all build
ing crafts went into effect They
were voted unanimously by the Elm
plnvers' association.
Three mills Of the McKeesport
plant, American Sheet and Tin Plate
company, have resumed and three
others will reopen at once, officials an
nounced. They said orders for ma
terial warranted resumption.
Approximately 1000 building trades
wOrkmen of Memphis, Tenn, were idle,
union leaders and building contractors
failing to reach wage agreement to
replace contracts which expired. Work
men contend the new contracts reduce
wages from 19 to 20 per cent.
Building contractors of Denver have
begun employing nonunion workmen,
following cessation Of building Oper-
ations since March 81, because Of the
unions refusing to accept a wage re-
duction of 10 to II per cent. Two
thousand carpenters, bricklayers,
painters, plasterers and lathers, are
affected.
Settlement Of strike at the mines
of the Patton (Kan.) Coal and Min
ing company, in progress since March
%, was announced. Alexander How
att and five other officers OF the Kan
sas Miners union are to be tried be-
fore Judge A. ]. Curran In district
court in calling the strike In violation
of an injunction.
The United States Building Trades
Council of Boston announced that 1t
had decided to accept a proposal OF
the state board of cOnciliation and
arbitration for consideration Of the
dispute with the employers that has
tied up building operations for ten
weeks. The employers have already
agreed to the arbitration suggestion.
Sixteen thousand men have been af-
fected by the tieup.
The garment workers of Vineland,
n. j., scored a victory when vice
Chancellor Leaning dismissed the pc
tition of the Vineland Coat company
for an injunction to prohibit the local
union, No. 2, Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, from picketing
the factory. The petition requested
that the men be enjoined from cOntin-
uing to hold meetings in front Of the
factory and from calling the nonunion
workers "scabs."
An offer by officials Of the Cleve-
land street car mems union to accept
10 per cent reduction for the 3,4OO
conductors and motOrmen at the ex-
piration of the present wage agree
ment May l was rejected by ]. j.
Stanley, president of the Cleveland
Railway company. President Stanley
said he would stand firm on his de-
mand for a 20 per cent reduction and
other demands of the company, In
Guiding an "Open shop" and abolition
Of wartime emergency clauses In this
years contract.
The reduction Of 10 per cent in the
wages of all shipyard workers In the
New York district went into effect.
There apparently was no organized
| opposition to the move, and survey
of the yards showed the employees
working quietly at their jobs.
The paper mill and ground wood
department Of st. Croix Paper COM
pany, Woodland, Me-, will be operated
four days a week. The sulphite de-
partment will be suspended indefinite
| ly. This is the first curtailment of
working hours since the mill was built,
IL VaarH ago