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


ceeded 100000 tons for the first time
in two years.
There are now almost 100000 more
persons engaged In British coal min
ing than In 1918.
Bakers In Muncie, Ind. have organ
lied and affiliated with the general
labor organization.
There are eight meat-packing
plants In Indianapolis employing more
than 10000 workers.
In Denmark idle workers are al
lowed on an average Of from $40 to
SIP per week by the government
Increases Of IS per cent in steel
plant operations have brought mills of
the Youngstown district to a basis
slightly over 40 per cent
The Brierhill Steel company of
Youngstown, o., will sell $4,000 shares
Of its common stock to employees at
$27 a share under a monthly payment
plan.
Canada's new program for preven-
tion Of unemployment centers in ma
tional employment service working In
close touch with the immigration de-
partment.
California proposes spending $780,
100000 for the installation of giant
power plants to utilize the energy
from the waters of the Kern and San
Joaquin rivers.
The United States bureau Of mines
has devised a respirator that Is thor
oughly effective for use by workers In
industries where there is considerable
dust to contend with.
A wage reduction of 20 per cent, af-
fecting 1000 employees Of the Mobile
& Ohio railroad has become effective,
e. E. Norris vice president Of the
road announced. Representatives Of
the employees agreed to the reduction,
Mr.. Norris stated.
The number Of anthracite mines
worked In Austria In 1920 was II; in
1919, II. SiXty-one Ignite mines were
worked in 1920 as compared with SO
in 1919. The largest anthracite out
put In 1920 came from the Gruenbach
mine, near Schneeberg, and was ap-
proximately 114,OOO tons, an increase
Of $1,000 over the previous year
The hundred thousand mark has
been passed in unemployment Of
workers by the larger industrial
plants of Detroit, according to the
weekly survey of the employers as
sociation. The aggregate force of the
70 concerns represented in the report
was placed at 1OO,347 an increase
over last week of 5,126. Only 10 Of
the shops are now working on part
time schedules.
The most recent comprehensive
study Of wOmen's earnings by the
United States bureau of labor stats
tics shows that for nearly $4,000 work
ers, for whom payroll records were
available, the average weekly earnings
In 1919, a high wage year were 1884.
This average Of earnings was lower
than any minimum wage set during
the last year by any minimum wage
commission in the United States.
Benef1ting approximately 10000
women and children, a bill extending
the 48-hour law to employees Of mo-
ton picture houses, women elevator
operators and private telephone ex-
change operators, and women en-
ployees In laundries, hotels, hairdress-
ing and manicure parlors, has been
signed by the governor Of Massachu-
setts.
" Eight hundred carpenters In Wo-
burn, Reading, Stoneham, Winchester,
Wakefield, Lexington and Melrose,
Mass, resumed work after strike
of two months. The men who quit
work because Of a wage cut Of 10
cents an hour to a 90-cent rate went
back under q temporary award Of 95
cents an hour. made by Mayor Ber-
nard J. Golden OF Woburn, acting as
arbitrator.
Two of the railroad brOtherhoods,
Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, notified the
general managers committee Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company that
they had declined to join conductors
and trainmen's brotherhOods In sub
mitting the proposed wage reductions
to the joint reviewing committee Of the
road instead Of to the United States
labor board.