Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-06-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR


are now doing business in Finland.
The craftsmen Of every city in the
United States and Canada are organic
ing.
England has about 5000 fur work
ers, the majority of whom are EN-
ployed In London.
Representatives of textile mills and
shoe shops in Lewiston, Me-, voted to
adopt daylight saving time.
Union tailors in Spartanburg, S. c.,
have opened shop which will be
operated by their members only.
The percentage Of unemployment
among nonunion workers is always
higher than among union members.
Louisville, KY, is to have its own
coal mine and municipal yard for the
purpose Of supplying coal to city insti-
tutiOns.
More than 1900 carpenters, paint
ers, masOns, plumbers steamftters,
printers, and paper mill workers
struck at Green Bay, Wis.
British Columbia pulp and paper
mills will not be affected by the strike
of paper workers, Norman Long, man
ager Of the Powell River (B. CO. Pa
per company, declared.
The Dover plant Of the American
Sheet and Tinplate company, which
has been shut down for several weeks,
resumed operation Of one-half OF its
hot mills giving work to 400 men.
The Waterbury (Conn.) plant OF
Robert II. Ingersoll Il Bro, closed
some weeks ago because Of business
depression, reopened May 8. Nearly
600 employees were affected by the
layoff.
Textile workers are immigrating In
such large numbers from Saxony to
Argentina that the authorities In the
latter country are considering the
stopping of their coming into the
country.
More than a billion dollars in con-
struction work has been stopped In
the country by labor troubles, accord
ing to Earl F. Stokes, secretary OF
the National Association Of Builders
Exchanges.
The strike Of the trainmen on the
Cuban railway became general, caus-
ing virtual cessation Of transpOrta-
tion throughout the eastern half OF the
island, according to press dispatches
received from Camaguey and other
rail centers.
The senate Of the Industrial de-
mocracy by which the Riverside and
Dan River cotton mills. $16OOO,OOO
corporation of Danville, Va, Is gov
erned, voted nonconcurrence in the
bill recently approved by the house
accepting a cut Of 22h per cent In all
wages.
The Chicago job printers demand
for a 44-hour week was granted, but
the printers will accept the $4.35 q
week wage reduction decided upon by
Dean Ralph Emerson Heilman, who
was chosen arbiter by the committees
Of employers and employees. The
basic wage for compositOrs will now
be $46.65 week.
Journeymen carpenters OF Pitts
burgh and vicinity, members OF the
Carpenters District council, rejected
a proposed wage cut. A referendum
vote was taken of the entire member
ship, union officials stated, after the
contracting carpenters intimated that
q previous rejection Of the wage cut
by committee Of the union did not
represent sentiment among the rank
and file of union carpenters. Carpen-
ters at present receive $1.26 an hour'
or $40 a day Of eight hours
Announcement that building opera
tons OF the Carnegie Steel Co. at
Mcdonald, Ohio, the new mill town
near Girard, will be on an open-sho[
basis was made. A large number OF
houses for workmen at Mcdonald are
being erected by the Conneaut Land
company, a subsidiary to the corpora
ton. Approximately $50 men will be cul
20 per cent in wages, 1t Is said. Inc
company will do all building with lis
own force, who will be paid on sliding
scale WIN MlHluun IdLCS Va W 49,
hour for bricklayers, 80 cents rof
carpenters, electricians, fathers, paint
ers, plasterers, plumbers ana sheet
metal and cement workers and oa
cents for hod carriers.
The first settlement In the building
strike at Worcester, Mass, against Q
On nor cent cut In paw, started April
/, was made by the bricklayers ano
plasterers, who accepted a reduction
of Is cents an hour-from $1.124s Il
97h cents.
A separate agreement was mace 81
Kansas City between boss plastereri
and the plasterers' union, according Il
Charles Eagan, business representa-
tive of the union. Mr.. Eagan salC
that any shutdown on constructor
Jobs would not affect the craft he rep
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