Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-09-23
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


days, decided to resume work on the
strength of preliminary compromise
settlement which gives the workers a
voice in the mechanical direction of
the plants.~
One thousand musicians employed in
New York vaudeville and motion pic
ture houses went on strike. The mu-
sicians declared the strike was in an
ticipation Of lockout" slated for the
following week, when the managers
announced they would terminate ex-
listing wage agreements.
IN July of last year In Canada the
percentage Of unemployment was 2.75,
while at the same time this year 1t
was 1874. It Is estimated that there
are more than 100000 out Of work
In Canada at the present time.
Martin F. Ryan of Kansas City was
reelected by acclamation general pres
ident Of the Railway Garments Broth
erhood of North America. Felix K.
knight was reelected assistant gen
eral president.
Suppression Of the zone big union"
principle and decision to enlist with
the farmers faction In political affairs
were agreed upon by the convention
Of the Brotherhood of Railway Car
men at Toronto.
The total number Of employees In
Esthonian Industries, which ap-
preached $4,000 before the war, has
now fallen to 5000 or 1900, and the
output Is from one-fourth to one-third
of what 1t was before the war.
The General Federation Of Trade
Unions In Canada has an aggregate
membership Of 1858, ,O58, as against
1,48O, 10S last year, and its annual In
come has greatly exceeded all pre-
vious records.
The executive board of the United
Mine Workers Of America authorized
continuance Of the strike in the Mingo
County CIV. Va) field and also or
dered support for miners declared to
have been locked out In western Wash
ington.
At Bluefeld, W. Va, Judge 1. q.
Herndon Of the circuit court signed q
bill making permanent the temporary
injunction granted the Pocahontas
Coal company against the United Mine
Workers Of America officials and 9TH
ers, restraining them from interfering
with nonunion labor In Mercer county.
A number of British trade unions are
taking advantage Of the opportunity
which peace In the Industrial field
offers them to adjust their own
domestic difficulties and In developing
and strengthening their organizations
to meet the turbulent demands Of their
members. With the exception Of the
Electrical Trade union, the amalgama-
ton of the Engineering Trade union is
complete and working satisfactorily.
Miners on strike at the Dean Milling
company and the Reliance Coal COM
pany in the Kansas coal fields were
ordered to return to work, 1t was an
nounced at international headquarters
Of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea. The executive board held that
the strikes called at these two mines
were In violation Of the agreement be-
tween the miners organization and the
operators, inasmuch as no effort bad
been made to settle the dispute before
calling the strikes. -.--s.---
Judge De Courcy In the Massachu-
setts Supreme court enJoined union
workers In Haverhill from continuing
a strike and ordered the local confer
ence committee to take up considera-
tion Of new wage scale. Should the
committee fail 1t will go to an adjust
ment committee and then to an arbi-
tration board, the Judge decreed.
The national child labor committee
made public a report urging the gov
ernment to send an agent to West vir-
ginia to determine whether enforce
ment Of the federal child labor law
should not be taken from jurisdiction
of the state officials. The committee
charged that state labor laws were be-
ing violated and that hundreds Of
children were illegally employed under
the special permit" system.
The annual convention of the Uni
ted Textile Workers of America will
be held in New York city beginning
September IL, instead Of Knoxville,
Tennessee, as previously arranged.
Complaints that contractors on
Ohio state highways are requiring
their employees to work ten hours
day have caused Peter Tetlow, direc-
tor Of industrial relations, to order
inspectors in the division Of work
shops and factories to investigate
complaints and conditions and take
steps to compel the observance Of the
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