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

Inc international Union OI bduu-
dry Workers now has a membership
exceeding 1000.
At Elkhart Ind, $500 New York
Central railroad shop employees were
laid off indefinitely.
Shopmen and trackmen employed
on the Union Pacific railroad are only
working five days week.
The Lincoln Motor company plant,
Detroit Mich, resumed full time oper-
ations with an enlarged force.
Men in Newport News, Va, who are
unemployed must either work on
sewer improvements or go to jail.
One thousand women are employed
in the banks of Boston, many Of them
in positions of great responsibility.
Manchuria has about $1,000 tim
Der workers, of which 10000 are en-
ployed In cutting and rafting logs and
5000 as teamsters.
Nearly 500 local unions are now af-
flliated with the international Iren
Molders' union and the total member
ship exceeds 10000.
Women workers in Germany who
have homes to look after must be re-
leased from their work at least one
hour before the noon rest period.
The New York Central announced
wage cut, effective April 16, for 43,OOO
employees between New York and Chi
cago. The order affects 85 classes OF
workmen.
A reduction Of 20 per cent In the
wages of all building trade employees
was indorsed at Memphis, Tenn, fol-
lowing meeting at the Memphis
Builders Exchange.
ployed to enforce increased wages for
emergency relief work and elimina-
tion of rock breaking proved unsuc-
cessful, municipal authorities said.
Frank Hedley, general manager Of
the Interborough Transit company,
was once a mechanical foreman for
the Manhattan Elevated railroad in
| New York city.
The local union of laundry work
ers in Lynn, Mass, is establishing a
$4,000 cooperative union laundry in
order to provide work for members OF
the union who were locked out by
laundry owners In that city.
Sixty men in the sulphite depart
ment Of the Great Northern Paper
company, Madison Me-, have been
laid off indefinitely. No reduction
was made in the paper-making and
ground-wood sections.
A reduction in the wages Of un-
skilled labor throughout its system,
effective April 16, was announced by
the Southern Pacific railroad. The
minimum will range from 30 cents an
hour In the southern division to some
what higher rates in other zones.
Toledo (Ohio) contractors announced
a proposed cut Of 20 per cent In the
wages of men engaged in building con-
struction. Their contracts with vari-
GUS unions expire April l. and the re-
duction Is declared imperative If
building is to be revived.
A reduction In wages Of the un-
skilled employees Of all the principal
railroads in New England is forecast.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford. the Boston & Albany and the
Boston & Maine railroads called con-
ferences Of employees at which the
extent of the cut Is to be discussed.
April 4 is the date tentatively set for
the reduction which on these roads
will affect approximately 1000 men.
A further reduction Of 16 per cent In
wages, which, with the abolition OF
bonuses, makes a total cut OF % per
cent since the downward trend OF
prices began, is announced by the Vic
tor Monaghan company, which oper-
ates eight large cotton mills In upper
South Carolina. The reduction affects
between FIVE and six thousand employ
ees. Office employees also are affect
ed by this reduction, for the first time.
The effective date Of the 10 per cent
cut in wages of 10000 shipyard work
ers decided upon by the Atlantic
Coast Shipbuilders association for
March ! was postponed until March IA.
A. J. Berres, secretary OF the metal
trades department Of the American
Federation of Labor, said the post
ponement was made to give the
unions time to notify the workers Of
the results Of the recent referendum in
which the men voted against accept
ance Of reduction.
Boston and Albany railroad officials
notified representatives Of labor that,
effective April 4, the rates OF pay In
effect April 30, 1920. would be restored.
1t means a reduction Of about ten
cents an hour.
Railroads running into Minneapolis
served a @-day notice On 25,OOO main
tenance Of way employees. laborers in
the railroad shops and bridge work
ers Of cut in wages to % cents an
hour. The present wage Is 48h cents.
Roads serving notice are the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific Milwau-