Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-11-03
OTHER LABOR NOTES

4~OAIuClH ANoA way mining ihuu0'AJ
is in condition of complete stagna-
ton due to a recent court decision.
Industrial pay rolls in Youngstown
and immediate vicinity were larger
during September than at any time
since February, 1920.
II. G. Wells, the novelist, has been
chosen as the Labor candidate for
London university in the next British
parliamentary elections.
Raw cotton from Russia promises to
become a source of keen competition
between Poland and Germany: Rus
sian exchange is very favorable to
Germany.
Prosperity smiles in France, accord
ing to official figures issued by the La
Dor department, which showed that
there were only 1880 unemployed per-
sons in the republic on September l..
Aristides Aguero Betancourt and
Carlos Armenteros y Cardenas, Cuban
ministers to Germany and Italy, re-
spectively, are representing Cuba at
the international labor conference in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Unemployment in England, as Off
cially reported by the Labor Gazette
for the end Of August, showed 14.4 per
cent Of trades union membership out
of work. This was the lowest percent
age since March of 1921.
Forty-three thousand coal miners Of
the Ostrau and Karwin (Austria) dis
tricts went out on strike as the result
of wage dispute. The mines are at
standstill. Railroad lines from Up
per Silesia have ceased to operate.
Accidents at stone quarries through
out the United States in 1921 resulted
in the death Of 100 employees and the
injury of 1O,465 others, according to
figures compiled by the federal bureau
Of mines.
In response to petition from the
Illinois State Master Plumbers as
sOciation, the first short course In
plumbing ever conducted by major
university will be held at the college
Of engineering of the University of
Illinois in January, 1923.
Upward revision of wages paid shop
men on the Hazleton and Mahoney d.
vision Of the Lehigh Valley railroad
has been announced effective as or
October 1. The announcement says
that some mechanics will get from 2
to 5 cents more an hour.
The United States Railroad Labor
board handed down three decisions
holding, as in former cases, that the
contracting out Of railroad work to
outside agencies was illegal because
the practice attempted to evade, the
provisions Of the transportation act.
Approximately 255, ,266 railroad work
ers left service in the national strike
last July, according to statistics made
public by the Interstate Commerce
commission. This was the decrease In
the actual working forces in main
tenance of equipment occupations be-
tween June Is and July 10.
All car inspectors employed by the
Joint Car association and exchange,
and all shopmen on the Fort Worth
Relt railroad returned to work at Fort
WORTH Texas, their differences having
been settled under the Willard-JeWell
plan. All had been on strike since
July /.
On account Of the low number OF
working hours in the winter time, and
the loss of time on account OF bad
weather, the Belgian eightthour-day
law of 1921-has been modified by royal
decree in such a way, it is believed,
as will improve the conditions In the
building construction industry.
The mems clothing industry of Bos-
ton is among the trades in that city
showing a prodrction increase since
April 1, according 70 survey by the
Boston chamber Of commerce. In
clothing plants whose number OF nor
NAL work hours is $4,000, the work
hours last month numbered GA, ,1O1, as
compared with 6O,1O4 in April, gain
of 1897 hours.
At the twenty-frst annual conven-
ton of the National Machine and Tool
Builders of America, at Lenox, Mass,
the following. officers were elected: +:
President, E. J. Kearny of Milwaukee,
Wis. first vice president, Winslow
Blanchard Of Boston; second vice
president, o. B. lies OF Indianapolis; |;
treasurer, James A. Heald Of Wor-
cester.
A resolution providing for an assess
ment Of 8 per cent on the wages OF the
members of the New York Cloak Max
ers' union who are at work, to aid
those out of employment was adopted
by 5000 shop chairmen of the union.
It was said there were between 5000
and 10000 workers out Of employment,
or who were working only few hours
week.