Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-03-18
OTHER LABOR ITEMS

in 1886.
Nearly 100000 people are employed
In the cotton trade in Great Britain.
Australia has more females than
males employed in the various indus
trial plants.
Massachusetts manufactures about
At per cent Of the bouts and shoes
used throughout the world.
Eighty-five per cent of the building
trades workers in Canada are men,
bers of the international unions.
Short time is soon to go into force
in the British government dockyards
and other government establishments.
A special dispatch from Stockholm
reports that the saw mills workmen in
Sweden, numbering 24,0OO, intend to
stop work.
The United States senate voted a
$24O annual bonus to government en-
ployees, including navy yard workers
and arsenal employees.
The Weypoyset company Of Central
Falls, N. Y, announced that night
shift would be run in their Warding
and spinning departments, employ
ing $50.
The British Shipbuilders' federation
has asked the trade unions to consent
to 25 per cent reduction in wages.
Employers in other trades also are
discussing the necessity of reducing
wages.
The eighty teachers in the New
vcfn ~ 60 Id 20
appear for duty following an an
nouncement of the school board that
there would be no further increases in
salaries.
That business is rapidly approach
ing a normal stage was evidenced
when the Cambria Steel company,
JOhnstown, Pa, announced the reopen
ing of number Of departments closed
since December.
The limestone Quarries of the Jones
& Laughlin Steel company, Of Pitts
burgh at Blairton, near Martinsburg,
w. Va, closed for an indefinite period.
The plant which employs about 25O
men, closed on account of lack of bus
mess.
A shutdown Of the Grand Trunk rail-
road shops at Port Huron, Mich, has
been ordered. The order affects $50
employees. A force Of 750 men was
employed in the shops two months
| ago. Stagnant business is the cause
given.
The Furness (England) iron mas
ters and representatives Of the mems
union have met and the latter decided
to accept a reduction Of wages from
% shillings and pence to 10 shillings
and Z pence a day, so that work may
be resumed in the iron mines.
The general committees Of the con-
ductors, brakemen and switchmen on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail-
road have signed up what is declared
to be the most satisfactory agreement
In years on working conditions. The
wage agreement Is separate.
Nearly 500 small manufacturers of
waists and dresses In New York re.
sumed operations when $4,000 Of the
$4,000 union needle workers who went
on strike to enforce standardized con-
|
turned to their work.
Farm hands will not be paid more
than $35 to $45 per month this year
In central Illinois, according to farm
ers. This will include board and wash
Ing. The wartime scale of SIS to $1O0
is gone forever, assert the agricul-
turists Help must accept the reduced
scale or remain idle, say the en-
ployers.
A prolonged fight is threatened in
the raincoat industry Of Boston with
the refusal of the workers to accept
changed conditions which they say In
volve an open shop and 40 per cent
| reduction in wages. Manufacturers
| have announced their intention to re-
place the former piece work system
with weekly wage schedules.
Announcement has been made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad company in
Chicago that approximately 1000
| skilled mechanics in the locomotive
and car repair shops will be returned
| to work. The shops have been closed
since January 20. The opening is due
to piling up of heavy repairs. The
men to be reemployed are all skilled
mechanics with wage scales varying
from SIS to So day.
Wages of 5000 metal trade workers
In New Orleans will be reduced ten
per cent March 15, according to
Thomas Killeen, chairman Of the ad-
justment committee of the employers.
No question Of unionism or open shop
was involved, it was stated.
Notice was given the 25O employees
Of the Durham Mills, Inc, Naugatuck,
Conn., makers of woolen knitted goods,
that the carding and spinning depart
ments would resume at once on full
time. The entire plant, after two
months idleness, Is expected to be
running soon.