Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
OTHER LABOR ITEMS

The Dutch Federation of Trade
Unions has a membership of 247, $40.
The International Bookbinders' un-
ion now has a membership of nearly
25,0OO.
Products from Philadelphia 10000
manufacturing plants 60 to every
country on earth.
In England organized labor has de-
feated an attempt to have the state
supervise ballots taken by trade IN
ionists from time to time.
The American Federation Of Labor
has begun a nationwide campaign to
unionize janitors and scrubwomen,
Secretary Frank Morrison announces.
Wages of all workmen at the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining company's
East Helena (Mont.) smelter were re-
duced so cents per day.
The New York Central railroad Or
dered a reduction of 10 per cent of
the working force at the North Albany
IN. W shops.
The Leonard copper mine at Butte,
Mont, which for some time has been
operating with reduced forces, has
ceased operation entirely. Several
hundred men are ost of employment.
Notices we're posted at the Standard
silk mill, the largest mill at Phillips
burg, N. j., that the plant would be
closed indefinitely. Market conditions
are given as the cause. About 5000
employees are affected.
Coal miners In Illinois have voted to
contribute $4,000 toward the erection
Of memorial to their former interna-
tional president, John Mitchell. The
memorial will be erected at Scranton,
Pa, where Mr.. Mitchell is buried.
Demands for a wage Of S. a day for
Boston city laborers were renewed be-
fore Mayor Peters, but again he told
labor leaders that the city could not
meet the demands. The men now re-
ceive 81.
Secretary Of War Baker decided
that the increase in pay awarded en-
ployees Of the Minneapolis Steel &
Machinery Co., by the war labor board,
is valid and ordered the claims for
the amounts due the men to be paid
Immediately.
With more than 5000 employees on
the payrolls, the Bethlehem Shipping
corporation Is pushing it's drive for
skilled workers, to add 1000 new men
during December. Eleven thousand
will be needed, 1t is said, to complete
the contracts now on the company's
books, which include eight vessels on
the ways and three overheard.
A plan whereby steel men will be
placed on an eight-hour basis instead
of twelve after the first of January
is contemplated by Youngstown (Ohio)
independent steel companies. AS the
men work on an hourly basis this vir-
tually means a cut of 33 1-3 per cent
in their wages. This action will af-
feet between 10000 and $4,000 men
at Youngstown.
Master builders of Rochester, N. Y,
a III wages VI
from 10 to 22h cents an hour for all
lines they employ. Bricklayers are re-
duced from $1121s to 81 an hour and
plasterers, electricians, plumbers and
lathers from $11212 to 80 cents an
hour. Twelve hundred men are af-
fected. The builders declared costs Of
building materials are going down and
"workmen must bear their share in re-
ducing building COSTS"
The first layoff Of employees Of the
Western Maryland railroad occurred
at Hagerstown, Md, when twenty
clerks received fifteen-day notices Of
dismissal Fifteen labnrers In the
yards also were dismissed without no.
tice.
In a voluntary effort to help the
company in its readtustment policy,
workmen In the Erie shops at SusQue-
hanna, Pa, organized a movement to
"take q week off, December "a to jan
uary 2. A limited number of men will
remain on the Job for service in an
emergency.