Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-09-15
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

gest foreign purchaser in the United
Kingdom.
OF every 100000 workmen employed
in the United States seven are killed
every year in industrial accidents.
An increase Of five cents an hour
for trackmen employed on the New !
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
has gone into effect.
At Anderson, Ind, notices were post
ed in the American Steel and Wire
plant of a 20 per cent increase In
wages, effective September l.
The strike of the longshoremen on
the Buffalo docks was declared off, |
The men have been idle three months |
demanding ten cents an hour increase
in pay.
Telegraphers Of the Big Four rail-
road completed the presentation of
their grievances to the United States
railroad labor board. The board will
hand down decision later.
The Wheeling (W. Va.) Steel cor
poration, employing approximately
$4,000 men, will meet the 20 per cent
wage advance announced by the
United States Steel corporation.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence,
Mass, will reopen October l at the
wage scale prevailing before the
wage reduction Of March u, which
caused the strike Of $500 employees.
Unloading Of several ships was i'm
peded at Port Arthur, Ont, due to the
walkout of 800 freight truckers en-
ployed by the Western Stevedore COM
pany. The strikers protest wage
reduction.
Settlement Of differences between
Booth Brothers & Hurricane Island
Granite company and their quarrymen
at Long Cove, st. George, Maine, was
effected when a three-year agreement
was adopted.
Striking textile workers Of the Pa
cific mills at Lawrence, Mass, accept
ed the offer of the employers to re-
turn to their jobs at the old wage
scale The strike of 5000 workers was
brought on by 20 per cent cut.
The joint board of the Waist and
Dressmakers' union approved the rails
ing of a 100000 fund for general
strike early next year. The fund Will
be raised by $40 assessment on each
of the 10000 members Of the various
locals.
The rising tide of prosperity has not
only wiped out the unemployment
problem Of few months ago, but has
created an actual shortage OF men,
with an accompanying increase In
wages, according to Chicago employ
ment agents.
Increased wages averaging At per
cent and affecting between 10000 and
4O, 1000 nonunion miners in Westmore-
land and Fayette counties, Pennsyl-
vania, were decided upon at a meet
ing of operators, 1t was officially an
nounced.
Counsel for 22O miners filed suits
against the Consolidation Coal COM
pany. Cumberland, Md, for back
wages. The bill Of complaint charged
that the miners were defrauded from
1902 until 1917 through irregular
weights"
Both the Denver Trade and Labor
assembly and the Colorado State FED
GRAFTON of Labor rejected resolution
prepared by the Central Labor union
of Omaha calling upon the executive
council of the American Federation OF
labor to declare a national strike.
Efforts further to extend the busi-
ness Of the Cooperative Glove asso-
citation factory, established by union
glove workers at Chicago, are under
way. Since 1t started, the factory has
been working at 25 per cent capacity,
due to lack of working capital.
Coal miners of Alberta, Canada, are
expected to accept an offer made them
by the operators to go back to work
at a reduction Of 20 per cent In wages
but to receive any scale that later may
be adopted by at least 80 per cent or
the operators in the United States.
About 200 employees of the Otis
companys textile mills, Ware, Mass,
went to work when the mills gates
were reopened after being closed since
March 8 because of strike. The nor
NAL number Of workers Is about 1,7OO.
Those who went back did so under
the wage scale in force prior to the
walkout.
Steps are being taken In Switzerland
TO have the federal constitution re-
vised in order to insure protection OF
labor as to the limit Of hours and re-
strictions of child and woman labor.
Acting under the advice of the rail-
road labor board, the New York, New
Haven Hartford railroads shop
craft employees who did not go out on
strike and the men who were en-
ployed to fill vacancies resulting from
the strike have organized union
called the Association of Mechanical
Department Employees, New haven
, system.