Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-05-13
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Inc COLORADO legislature mas an
anti-strike measure.
During the fiscal year of 1920
nearly $4,000 child labor permits were
issued in Wisconsin.
A wage reduction of 25 per cent
has been announced by the Albany
IN. " Builders exchange.
In the best grade of cotton yarn
there may be found about $4,000
yards of single thread in one pound.
Nearly $15O,OOO,OOO worth of build
ing work is being held up in Phila-
delphia, due to labor and material
prices
Second attempt to dissolve Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Union made
in Supreme court Of New York by
J. Friedman & Co.
Representatives of workers in
United States and Canada pulp and
paper mills, comforting in New York,
reject 80 per cent wage cut proposed.
The wage reductions being put in
force In the United States have thus
far failed to affect wages paid to la
borers in Great Britain.
Additional protests voiced at De
trOit against requirements Of La Fol
lette seamen's act by industrial heads,
ship owners and commercial men.
The japanese government has an
nounced the discovery of method of
utilizing Of steel, which, If adopted
would make Japan wholly independent
of steel products.
Rail union leaders deported from
Harrison, Ark, where they were
directing the Missouri and North
Arkansas strike, have no recourse ex-
cept in the courts, In the opinion Of
Governor McRae.
BY an overwhelming vote about
5000 employees Of the Cleveland
Street Railway company agreed upon
new wage scale and working condi-
tions. The new scale Is cut in wages
of about 20 per cent.
Representatives of department
stores, employers organizations, civic
bodies, educational departments and
organized labor in New York are
banded together in vigorous opposi-
ton to the repeal of the continuation
school law.
In 1919 158,777 persons, or one in
every f1fty-fOur Of the total popula-
ton, were given employment by the
railways of Canada Wages paid to
these employees in 1919 tOtaled $685.
939,995, or 54.5 per cent of the gross
earnings Of all railways.
Because the South Bend Und.)
builders exchange and the representa-
tives of the various trade crafts could
not reach a compromise agreement on
a wage scale reduction all unionized
crafts walked out. The employers In
sisted on a 20 per cent wage cut
At. Sault Ste. Marie a dozen or
more dock and dredge workers were
idle, the Great Lakes Dredge and
Dock company having posted notices
that union men would not be en-
ployed because Of failure of their Or
ganization to sign wage agreement.
Where coal cannot be readily 'shot
in" a new delivery truck for the coal
dealer has a platform which holds
baskets while they are being filled
and then elevators lift them to the
height of mans shoulder, from
which point they are easily carried
Off
Unskilled employees Of the Gulf, Mo-
bile & Northern and the Birmingham
do onraa6
to accept a reduction in wages, Off
cials of the two roads announced Of
ficers of the Birmingham & Northwest
ern, 1t was announced, have notified l.
B. Tigrett, president Of the road, that
for the next three months 10 per cent
of their salaries will be voluntarily
turned back into the company's treas
ury.
The 300 employees in 20 tOplift fac
tories at Haverhill, Mass, will receive
the same wages that they have been
paid for the past year for the next Il
months under a decision of Rev. l..
w. Coons as arbitrator. The union
members asked an increase of 81 per
week, while the manufacturers sought
a 20 per cent reduction. 1t was an
nOunced that the Shoe Manufacturers
association will submit d proposition
for longer week, in connection with
the adjustment Of wages.
The San Francisco building trades
wages have been cut Tn per cent by
order of the arbitration board of San
Francisco The decision means 45
cents per day less. Sixteen crafts will
be affected by this award, which is
for a period Of six months.
Dissolution of the temporary injunc-
ton granted the Northern Paper Mills
to restrain picketing was denied In
Circuit court at Green Bay. The
writ was granted after several en-
ployees had been beaten by striking
workmen. The strike is a protest