Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-06-17
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

During the fiscal year of 1919-20
nearly $4,000 child-labOr permits were
issued in Wisconsin.
The greatest zinc mine in the world,
located in Sussex county, New Jersey,
has been worked almost continuously
since colonial days.
Thirty-tive years ago there were only
125 mills in Japan. Now there are
more than $4,000 modern factories EN-
ploying 100000 workers.
Workers in the ready-to-wear trade
In Paris have started protest against
the change of the Saturday afternoon
rest period to Monday morning.
A new agreement secured by the
BARRIERS union in the city of ROches
ter, N. Y, calls for $50 week and
SO per cent of receipts in excess of $50
All Rome Qtaly) municipal employ
ees, including the firemen, police, grave
diggers and garbage men, are on a
strike. They demand increased wages
to meet the high cost of living.
OF the industries in Finland, the
timber industry held first place in
respect to the number Of employees
the number being 19,045, as compared
with 21,39O in 1916 and "a, 123 in 1913.
A survey of the wages of 4, 1922 wom-
en- employed in commercial and indus
trial pursuits In Colorado has dis
closed that 13 per cent of those en-
ployed receive less than $12 a week
and that 80 per cent receive less than
SIS.
The Kansas Supreme court set the
hearing of the second Alexander
Howat appeal for June 7. This is an
appeal from sentence imposed upon
Howat for violating an injunction
against calling strike of coal
miners.
The title of the act creating the
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Is broad enough to cover all its pro-
visions, the State Supreme court held
In the case against Jerry Scott,
switchman, arrested at Kansas City,
Kan, in the outlaw switchmans
strike, year ago. The court refused
to consider other questions as to its
validity.
The San Francisco Building Trades
council voted unanimously to enter
the building material business, and
authorized President P. II. Mccarthy
to proceed with organization plans.
The enterprise is to be financed by
the various unions affiliated with the
council. Shortage Of building mate
rials is declared by the council to be
the cause Of unemployment in building
trades.
Government authorities are pre-
pared to operate all public utilities In
the city of Mexico if the threat of a
general strike Is carried out by strik-
ing employees of the Ericsson Tele-
phone company and their sympa-
thizers, it is officially stated. Isolated
instances of sabotage, such as wire
cutting and the destruction Of the
telephone company's property, are re-
ported.
The union metal workers of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, notified their former employ
ers they would accept 1919 wage scale
of rs cents an hour. Until three weeks
ago the metal workers had been receiv-
ing 81, and when reduced to rs cents
quit work. The employers refuse to
discharge nonunion men who have been
working during the wage controversy,
and announce that they have adopted
the "open shop"
In sympathy with the striking sea-
men the Norwegian National Fedora
ton of Trade Unions declared a strike
of all its members except railway men,
firemen and hospital workers, begin
ming May 26. One hundred and twenty
thousand persons are affected.
Approximately 50 per cent Of the
car men employed by the Detroit Uni
ted railway in Detroit, Port Huron,
Flint, Ann Arbor, Pontiac and Mount
Clemens voted to accept a wage reduc-
ton. The new scale will be 55 SO
and 80 cents an hour. The men have
been receiving 70. 73 and 70 cents.