Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-23
OTHER LABOR NOTES

There are 1873 strip pits and deep
mines working in southeastern Kan
sas, according to the state mine In
spection bureau.
Wage cuts ranging from 3 to IN
cents an hour were accepted by repre-
sentatives of 1000 Armour & Co. en-
ployees at Fort Worth, Texas.
The Lehigh Portland cement mills
at Mitchell, Ind, with daily capacity
of 1&1 carloads Of cement, closed down
indefinitely, throwing 800 men out OF
work.
There are 541, 1859 women workers In
Illinois, of whom 311,615 are In Chi
cago and 229,615 are downstate, Miss
Agnes Nestor of Chicago reported to
the annual convention Of the Illinois
League of Women voters.
The conference board Of Swift q
Co.'S plant at East st. Louis, ILL.,,
representing the employers and 1900
employees, announced it had voted to
reduce wages AZ to tn cents an
hour. Wages Of piece workers are to
be cut per cent.
Five policemen and several other
persons were injured at Brussels, Bel
gium, In q clash between striking
street car workers and the authorities.
The trouble began when the strikers
stopped several cars operated by mem
bers of the Civic Union.
Unmarried jobless men Of Vancou-
yer, B. c., will be provided for this
winter in a military camp to be es-
tablished In Hastings park. The camp
will be equipped with military sup
plies, prepared to furnish board and
lodgings at $500 week per man. Two
days work at 40 cents an hour, or
$6.4O, will be guaranteed each man.
Shower baths and laundry services
are to be free.
Omaha packing plant workers voted
in favor of a strike to resist an
nounced wage cuts If q majority Of
employees Of the industry In other
packing centers want to take similar
action. According to Jacob Davis,
| president of the unions district
council, about so per cent Of those
who attended the meeting at which
| the action was taken were nonunion
workers.
The port of New Orleans was COM
pletely tied up by strike Of between
1900 and $1,000 cargo leaders and
handlers who walked out In sympathy
with the screwmen. About 70 ships
were in port awaiting cargoes. The
public cotton warehouse and 10 pri-
vate warehouses were closed. The
strike was precipitated by a wage cut
! instituted by the operators which the
screwmen rejected.
Alleging that members Of the In
ternational Typographical union were
violating both the letter and spirit Of
their contract and that no co-opera-
tion has been given since the press
men and bookbinders failed In their
effort to establish a forty-four-hour
week, the Tucker printing house, at
Jackson, Miss, summarily discharged
all printers on its staff and will re-
organize as an "open shop"
Wage reductions affecting 40 tan
neries in Peabody, Salem and Lynn,
Mass, we're announced. The plants
normally employ about 5000 persons.
The Leather Manufacturers' associa-
tion, with which many Of the tanner
les are affiliated, announced that the
cut would average about IL per cent.
The reduction became effective at
once. Representatives Of the associ-
alton said it was made necessary by
business conditions.
Fifteen hundred employees Of the
Tidewater Oil company Of Bayonne,
N. J., went back to work after the
company had agreed to make a cut
of IL instead Of "a per cent in wages.
The men will not receive back pay
for the time they were on strike, but
other demands relative to group In
surance, sick benefits, time and halt,
Sundays and holidays off and senior
ity rights were won. The strike was
conducted In orderly fashion.
A deadlock In the negotiations be-
tween the Lynn (Mass.) Shoe Manu-
facturers' association and the joint
council, United Shoe Workers Of
America, over the employers proposal
for a 20 per cent reduction in wages,
was indicated. The council wished to
investigate the employers books and
factory operations as a preliminary
to any plan for wage revision. 1--WE
do not intend to have workmens COM
mittees point out to us how our fac
tories should be rum" the manufac-
turers' statement said
Baltimore street car employees de-
cided to accept a new scale OF wages
January /, which decreases the pres
ent pay to that Of two years ago.
Platform men and shopmen will be re-
duced 2 cents an hour. According to
company officials, the company will
save 100000. Civic associations prob
ably will now demand that the z
cent fare be reduced.
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