Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-09-30
OTHER LABOR NOTES

| In BRUSSELS, Belgium, tne elgnI-Hour
day and 48-hour week have been es-
tablished by law.
Organized hatters in New York city
have defeated the proposed 10 per
cent cut In their wages.
The total employment decline dur
ing the last Is months in New York
state amounts to % per cent.
There Is a growing tendency among
the labor elements In Chile to settle
all labor conflicts by arbitration.
OF the 100000 women engaged in
useful occupation In the United States,
only about 100000 are organized.
The Central Trades and Labor coun-
Gil in New York city is fighting the
"open-shop" movement with motion
pictures.
Idle men and machinery are caus-
ing a loss of nearly $1,000, 100000 a
year In the metal trades industries in
this country.
Twenty-seven hosiery mills in Penn
sylvania have merged into one corpo-
ration with a daily output Of 10000
dozen pairs Of stockings.
Philadelphia electrical workers have
adjusted their wage differences with
the employers and have returned to
work on the basis Of 90 cents an hour.
The lockout against the lOngshore-
men ended at Havre, France, when the
workers accepted the employers terms
Of 21 francs as the basis for eight
hours Of work.
Announcement has been made that |
the wages Of common laborers at the
plant Of the American Window Glass
company, Hartford City, Ind, have
been reduced from So to $3.50 day.
The Oklahoma supreme court ruled
that employers In that state must COM
pensate injured employees whether or
not they are doing the work assigned
to them, 80 long as they are on the
premises.
The MinneQua steel plant Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company
closed Between 5000 and 1000 men
are out Of employment Lack Of Or
ders was given as the cause Of the
shutdown.
Organized shirtwaist and dress max
ers of Philadelphia, went on strike as
result Of a dispute with manufac-
turers over reduction In rates of
wages. Benjamin Schlesinger, presi-
dent Of the local union conducting the
strike, said about 5000 men and wom-
en- quit in about 25O shops.
The bi-monthly settlement of the bar
iron scale between the Western Bar
Iron Association and the Amalgamated
Association Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, fixed the daily wage rate of
puddlers for the next two months at
1912, compared with $11.88 for the
last two months and $1876 for peak
scale in January and February this
year. The wage scale Is fixed In pro-
portion to the selling price of bar iron.
The National Sugar Refining COM
pany announced a cut In wages
amounting to five cents an hour in its
refinery at Yorkers, N. Y. The cut
affects about 600 employees and will
reduce their wages to par with those
paid by other refneries In the East.
The decrease will cut the payroll about
$1,000 a week. This is the third reduc-
ton in wages made by the company
during the depression In the sugar
market
Recruiting of the shop force Of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
way, San Bernardino, CAL, to normal
strength, about 1900 men, has been
ordered It is not known whether the |
order involves replacement Of shop |
forces all along the systems lines on
a normal basis. This order means en-
plOyment of 900 men, making total
Of nearly 1000 employed or re-em-
ployed this month Increased traffic, |
necessitating additional repair work,
was the reason assigned.
An assessment of cents on each |
member of the affiliated unions Of the |
st. Louis Central Trades and Labor |
union was levied by the central body, |
the proceeds Of the assessment to be |
assigned to the ward and precinct or
| ganizations of the striking printers
unions to carry On an active fight |
against the spread Of the open shop. |
AS the central body represents approx
imately 10000 organized wOrkmen,
this means that $1,000 will be avail
able shortly to combat the "open-
shop" propaganda.
The plant Of the Weirton Steel COM
pany, Steubenville, Ohio, resumed
operations in part. Approximately
1000 men are employed normally at
the plant, which has been idle since
last January. 1t started at about so
per cent Of normal.
The twine mills of the International
Harvester company at Auburn N. Y,
announced the resumption of produc
tion at 100 per cent, and 600 operatives
returned to work. It was stated that
forty-fve-hour week would prevail,
| as formerly and there would be no re- |