Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-09-02
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Trade union membership in Great |
Britain jumped from 2, 400 in 1910 to |
S,O24,0 in 1919.
Silk mills in the Paterson, N. j.,
district are now operating at 55 per
cent Of normal.
Trade disputes in April caused the
loss Of 24,OOO,0OO work days to work
ers in Great Britain.
Employment decreased two per cent
in New York state from April to May.
Railroad and street car companies
employ nearly 100000 men in the
United States.
The court Of appeals Of the District
Of Columbia has upheld the constitu-
tionality Of the minimum wage law,
which has been in operation for the
past two years.
Employees Of the Detroit, Toledo &
Ironton railroad will receive mini
mum wage Of Sc per day for eight
hours work. The road Is operated
only six days week.
After a fight of more than three
months, the union carpenters Of Den
Yer have agreed to accept a wage cut
Of 81 day. The cut was ordered by
the state industrial commission, but
was at first rejected by the carpen-
ters and other unions. Bricklayers
and plasterers are still holding out
Labor turnover for 1920 in Japan
was even greater than in January, the
figures showing that the number OF
workers dismissed jumped from 98,8OO
in 1919 to 100000. In 1919 the num-
Der Of persons employed exceeded the
number dismissed by 5,4OO; in 1920
the number dismissed exceeded the en-
ployed by 213,900.
Judge Frank Irvine Of Ithaca, N. Y,
former public service commissioner, ac-
cepted appointment as seventh mem
Der Of the board of arbitration to set
tie the strike Of paper and pulp max
ers. Three members of the board were
named by the unions and three by the
paper manufacturers and Judge Irvine
was selected by these six.
Although the number of mine work
ers In France naturally varied great
ly from month to month as result
Of conditions brought about by the
war, the following figures are fairly
accurate. They include both under
ground and surface workers: 1913,
203, 1000; 1915, 100000; 1916, 117,OOO;
1917, 167,5OO; 1913 16s,5OO; 1919,
173,8OO.
The Millville (Mass.) plant Of the
Woonsocket Rubber company, foot
wear division of the United States
Rubber company reopened July IL,
after shutdown Of six months. About
400 of the 700 employees were given
work at once. The wages scheduled
will be the same as that at the Woon-
socket plant, where two reductions
have been made since the Millville
plant was closed.
Employment conditions in and
around Springfield, Mass, are slightly
better than they were six weeks ago,
according to tabulation submitted by
II Of the largest industrial plants in
the district The plants manufac-
ture q wide range of products. Under
normal conditions the factories employ
a total Of 1884 workers, or 69.2 per
cent of the total. The majority of
the plants do not anticipate any fur
ther curtailment over the present
schedule.
J. II. Thomas, the greatest leader
of labor in England, both In and out
of parliament, began work at three
shillings for a 12-hour day as loco
motive cleaner, and such he was for
four or five years. Fer five years he
worked as a fireman, 10 hours day,
for "a shillings q week. He burned
the midnight Oil, and was mayor OF
his town before he reached the posi-
tion of engine driver at 80 shillings
per week. Now the king, the prime
minister and parliament seek his ad-
vice and knowledge.
About 1000 men in Hagerstown, Nd,
were affected by the railroad wage re-
duction, as ordered by the United
States labor board. About 600 men
are now working in the western Mary
land railway shops in Hagerstown,
dDOuL 1,SOO DSlLS a. AoA ANNA
times. There are seven other shops
on the western Maryland system, and
these, with the road force, total about
5000 men under ordinary conditions.
The Cumberland Valley division of
the Pennsylvania system has about 3OO
employees in this city, and the Balti-
more & Ohio less than hundred men
employed.
The American Locomotive company
expects to resume operations at its
Schenectady and Montreal plants in
week or so. The Schenectady plant
will fill an order for 80 engines for
China, taken recently, while the Mon
treal plant has several small orders on
hand.
The st. Louis Building Trades
council, composed of representatives
of 81 building trades, refused to ac-
cept a wage reduction to a fiat rate
of 81 an hour for all trades. The