Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-11-24
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

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Textile mills in Austria are now
operating at 20 per cent Of their ca
pacity.
At Charleston, w. Va, the Dunkirk
Window Glass company Is now in full
operation after being shut down since
last June.
The Erie locomotive shops opened at
Gallon, Ohio after having been closed
since the strike of July Z. small
force was put to work, but it is an
ticipated the number Of employees will
he gradually increased.
Contracts for construction Of new
$2,5OO,O0O headquarters in Washington
for the Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States have been let, with the
provision that the erecting company
must observe the "open shop" plan of
employing labor on the construction.
American steel industries are in po-
sition to change from the present 12-
hour labor day to one of eight hours
without increasing the cost Of the
labor component In their output, in
the opinion of a committee of the Fed
Grated American Engineering SOcir
eties which has completed nation
wide inquiry into the "shift system"
of labor.
American and other master printers
from all over the world will assem-
BILE for three days In Gothenburg,
Sweden, at the international congress
of master printers on June A, and 6
ing about this congress has been taken
by the Swedish Master Printers asso-
citation.
The notifications in the eight-hour
law recently decreed by the French
government Is now effective On all the
railroads of France. In consequence,
a large number Of men went on nine
and half hour day basis, while en-
| plOyees at small stations, where there
Is little real work, were put on shifts
Of II to 10 hours.
Striking shopmen of the Terminal
Railroad association at St. Louis re-
turned to work as result Of a settle
ment OF the strike which began July I.
The terms Of the agreement call for
the unemployment Of 75 per cent of
the men who went out, the remaining
25 per cent to be placed on the waiting
list and reinstated as vacancies occur.
The total number of cotton spinning
spindles In place in September, the
number active, the number Of active
spindle hours, and the average spindle
! hours per spindle In place In the cot
ton growing and In all other states,
follow: Cotton states-16, ,O7S, 49,
296,513, 7,760,863, ,47O, 200; all other
states-20,9 1881 1884, 1851, ,945. 1922 SOe,-
1888, 27O.
All the members Of the Federation
Of Syndicates In the federal district of
Of Mexico City, embracing majority
Of the men connected with organized
| labor, ceased work for three hours
| October rs, as a protest against the
recent killing Of three persons and the
wounding Of a dozen more by mount
! ed police during demonstrations at
San Angel. 1t Is estimated that 10,-
and telephone operators struck.
Hunger threatens the once Bolshe-
vik state Of Puebla, Mexico. A COM
mittee Of workmen representing the
state called on President Obregon and
Informed him that over 1000 factory
hands were idle in the state as
result largely Of the effects Of the Boil
shevik legislation of former Governor
Sanchez, who is said to be In the en-
plOy Of the Bolshevik government of
Russia. The factories are closed be-
cause Of the heavy duty on American
cotton.
After having been closeted for near
ly four hours the jury in the case of
ten Industrial Workers of the World
charged at Sacramento, Calf, with
violating the California criminal syn
dicaltsm act disagreed and was dis
charged. The vote was reported to
have stood 8 to 8 for conviction.
A sweeping statement declaring his
personal stand for the eight-hour day
In industry and condemning the
twelve-hour day and the seven-day
week as unnecessary, uneconomic
and unjustifiable." has been issued by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The production Of the worlds coal
supply requires the labor of 100000
miners
Injunction suit for $1O,0OO.OOO dam
ages was filed by the Carpenters Dis
trict council against the Citizens Com
mittee to Enforce the Lands Wage
Award. Harry Jensen, president of
the union, said the amount asked is to
be based upon damages Of $500 each
for 10000 members Of the council.
The suit will also ask the citizens
committee be restrained from interfer-
Ing with members of the carpenters
or2anisafi0n