Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-09
OTHER LABOR NOTES

From 1912 to 1917 the average in
crease in wages to employees Of all
the electric railways In the United
States amounted to % per cent.
Judge Maurice Bernon issued q
temporary injunction prohibiting strik-
ing milk drivers from picketing the
plants of milk concerns at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Virtually all the mines In the anthra-
cite region were closed Oct. 20 as a
tribute to the memory of John Mitch
ell, former president Of the United
Mine Workers of America.
Accidents in 1920 in mines and
quarries of the United States, caused
the death Of 2973 employees and the
injury Of 100000, according to report
issued by the bureau Of mines.
Members of the Chicago Federation
of Musicians voted to make the
position of business agent an elective
one and directed that the Job be placed
on the ballot when officers are elected.
Union longshoremen In large num-
bers failed to report for work at New
Orleans Nov. 2. the walkout affecting
altogether about $500 workers along
the water front and stopping the load
ing of about seventy-five vessels.
The strike of California oil field
workers ended in its seventh week. 1t
was called when officials Of a group
Of Oil companies within the California
Producers association declined to per-
NIT government mediators to become a
party of any agreement covering
wages, hours and working conditions.
Operators predicted early resumption
of operations.
Seventy-one of the 152 men who
were killed In coal mines Of the Uni
ted States during September met
death In the mines Of Pennsylvania.
Reports from the various state mine
inspectors received and made public
by the United States bureau Of mines,
show that 30 deaths occurred in the
bituminous mines Of that state and
Al in the anthracite mines.
Breaking all records In salary and
wage increases, German trade unions
and the government, after long nego-
tiations have agreed upon a raise"
for state and government employees
aggregating thirty billion marks an
nually. The raise comes In the guise
of "high cost of living addition" and
1t amounts to an average Of 20 per
cent of the wages or salary.
The executive board Of the Nation
al Brotherhood Of Operative Potters
elected John f. Wood Of East Liver
pool, Ohio, president. He succeeds
Edward Menge, who held the office for
ten years and was forced to resign
because Of continued Ill health. John
McGillvary, also of East Liverpool,
was elected secretary treasurer, and
G. A. Harrison Of the same city, sew
enth vice president.
The Merchant Truckmen's bureau
and the International Teamsters union
Of New York signed a new contract
for the year on the same terms as the
old. This constitutes victory for the
truckmen, as the Merchant TrucKmens
bureau had suggested a reduction OF
$5 a week. The new contract, 1t was
said, contains no clause permitting
either side to cancel on thirty days
notice, as the old one did.
The proposed minimum wage for
women workers In factories Of London,
Ont. In common with the minimum
for Ottawa and Hamilton, has been
fixed at $11.50 a week and this figure
will soon be made compulsory by pro-
vincial law. The scale Is to be about
80 cents a week lower for smaller
cities and towns in the province, and
80 cents a week higher in Toronto. The
variation is due to the living cost In
the cities Of different sizes.