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

Fifty additional men in the lOcouo-
tive department have been added to
the force at the Missouri Pacific shops
at Sedalia, Mo.
A sliding scale of wages for agri-
cultural workers, based on the price
of wheat, has been adopted by the
French Agricultural society.
Lord Cowdry, one of England's
nOblest and richest, elected to begin
his practical education with pick and
shovel on an American railroad
It is against the Womens employ
ment law of Pennsylvania for women
to operate linotype machines in print
ing establishments before eight O'Clock
iD the morning or after ten o'clock in
the evening of any day.
The Order Of Railroad Telegra-
piers was born 35 years ago when %
members of the craft met at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, On June 8, 1886, and
formed what is now one of the most
influential labor unions in America.
Naval construction work in Japan
was at standstill as a result of the
strike of 10000 workmen in the Kobe
ShipyardS and sympathetic strikes else
where. A council of Workmen has
been formed at Kobe to take over the
shipyards.
Unskilled labor is seeking the en-
ployment bureaus in an effort to OBJ
tain work, and in the commercial
fields there are plenty of applicants
for each position, says Commissioner
John P Gilchrist, in a report to Mayor
Hylan of New York.
Paper mill employees at Kalamazoo,
Mich, protested against a proposed
wage reduction and requested con-
ference with the mill operators. The
cut (Which went into effec0 ranges
from 13 per cent for skilled workers
to 33 per cent for unskilled workers.
A deadlock has been reached in the
wages negotiations which have been
going on between the miners and mine
owners of the Asturias (Spain) owing
to the stand of the employers that it
| is impossible to grant the increase
asked. On the other hand, the work.
ample to provide for higher wages, but
that the employers statistics have
been given incorrectly.
About 1,400 municipal laborers Of
Baltimore are affected by wage reduc.
ton decided on by city engineers and
approved by Mayor Broening. The cut
is from "A cents an hour to 3715 cents
an hour. The purpose, as stated, Is to
bring the municipal wage rate down
to a figure equal to the prevailing rate
in outside employment. The city char
ter requires that city labOrers be paid
a compensation that averages rate
equal to the current wage in private
employment.
Rioting has broken out among the
10000 striking ship workers at Kobe.
said dispatch from Tokyo to Lon
don. The strikers held professions and
carried red flags.
Frank Hedley, president and general
manager Of the Interborough Rapid
Transit company (New York; an
nOunced that the company has asked
plOyees to accept a wage reduction of
10 per cent, in spite of the fact that
the contract providing the present
Scale does not expire until Decem
ber 81.
A large number of collieres in the
vicinity of Pottsville, Pa, suspended.
This is the first time that real slack
ness has hit the anthracite coal region.
Operators say there Is practically no
sale at all for steam sizes of coal.
The war emergency plant of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation,
Ltd, Providence, r. l., is being torn
down and structure and machinery are
being moved away. The plant was util
lied during the war for fitting out de-
stroyers for the United States navy.
1t formerly employed 1,2OO men.
Wage reductions to the extent of 10
per cent may be expected for the en-
ployees of the building trades in To
ronto, Canada, In the very near fu-
ture. 1t has been concluded that be-
fore the building trade could be stimu-
lated there must be wage reductions
and lower freight rates on materials.
Worcester, (Mass.) union paper
hangers affiliated with Local 4S3, that
includes practically all men engaged in
the business In the city, notified their
employers that they will take a volun-
tary cut in wages of ten cents an hour
or eighty cents a day, making the
hourly wage ninety cents instead Of
81.
The new schedule of working regula-
tions and conditions recently nego-
tiated between the management of the
Pennsylvania railroad system and GER
tain groups of the employees goes into
effect August l. The employees af-
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