Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-07-08
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Kansas have had their wages reduced
from 10 to 15 per cent.
The Indian government is investi-
eating the possibilities Of manufactur-
ing paper from bamboo In Burma.
The women elevator operators In
the New York hotels have their hours
restricted by statute to nine hours a
day, six days a week.
The general strike at Christian1a,
Norway, ended and work resumed, ex-
cept by the stOkers, engineers and dock
workers. They remain on strike pend
ing mediation negotiations.
= In Boston at a joint conference OF
the national committee Of the granite
industries and representatives of the
Paving Cutters union it was voted to
favor an extension Of the annual
agreement.
{ Following similar action by local
plumbers, the sheet metal workers or
elizabeth, N. j., voluntarily reduced
their pay 81 a day, in order to keep al
work They have been receiving 50,
and will now get So day.
At the end Of 1920 only AZ per cent
of total of 1872 blast furnaces were In
operation In Sweden, or only Bis per
cent. The cause of this closing down
is due to the fact that the market
price Of pig iron Is not sufficient to
meet operating expenses.
The joint council Of the United Shoe
Workers Of America turned down the
request Of the Lynn Shoe Manufac-
,turers' association for abolition OF the
IT to 20 per cent so-called war bonus,
by placing the matter on file indefinite
ly without further action.
According to the United States bu-
.reau Of mines, the average produc-
ton Of each underground worker en-
'ployed In the coal mines In this coun-
try in 1918 was 1,184 tons. The small
est individual output is In Japan, with
an average Of 155 tons to the man, or
one-seventh as much as does each
miner In America.
Approximately 10000 cotton mill
employees in Charlotte, Concord ana
Kannapolis, N. c., went on strike In
protest against recent reductions In
wages. which are said to aggregate
a cut Of 36 per cent. The strike move
ment does not extend to mills at Cas-
ton county, where operatives are not
unioniZed, nor to Monroe, Lincolnton
and Cleveland.
According to figures from 8O Indus
tries, from pins to automobiles, IN
volvtng 900 firms, there were 24o,OUo
persons employed In the seventh fed
eral reserve district on April /, as
against 10000 on the same date last
year. The weekly payments In the
same industries on April l totaled w.
100000, as against $12,OOO,OOO on the
same date last year.
The r. ]. Reynolds Tobacco com
pany, Winston Salem, N. O., announced
a reduction Of approximately ~ per
cent In wages In its various plants.
Action does not affect office employees.
Plants will be operated five days q
week instead Of four, and employees
will have the privilege of working hVe
and a half days If they desire, the
company announced.
Building operations were resumed
in Lafayette, Ind, the teup IN thls
industry occasioned by the wage dis
,nute between the Associated Contrac-
tors and hod carriers having come to
an end through an agreement, Inc
carpenters have signed up for 6Z4a
cents an hour, a reduction of tn cents
hod carriers will receive 621a cents,
cut of IN cents.
The British ministry Of labor states
that there are now 1900 men at
work on the new arterial roads; In
addition, at least an equal number
over and above those ordinarily en-
Moved on such work, have found en-
ployment OF the program OF road
maintenance and repair work WorK
has been accelerated on the layouts
and sewers of housing schemes TO en-
pIoy an extra 400 men.
The Butte (Mont) Bulletin, estaD-
lished as a daily evening newspaper
In 1917, suspended publication because
Of financial difficulties. r. B. Smith,
manager, said the publication owed
S21, 900. had assets of $4,000 and
hoped to resume publication soon. In
the meantime 1t will issue a small
weekly. The Bulletin had the support
of the Montana Federation OF Labor
1t championed the one big union Idea.
From three thousand to four thou
sand men will be called back to work
In a few days by the Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad, 1t
was announced, as a direct result of
the railroad labor boards decision re-
ducing wages of railroad workers.
Six hundred and fifty more men
we're laid off at Topeka, Kan, by the
Santa Fe railroad and corresponding
reductions were made In the other
big shops Of the system, according to
announcement at the general offices.
Shop forces at Topeka are now re-
duco6 From 0OO 10 about 300,