Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-18
OTHER LABOR NOTES


mine workers in Great Britain are un-
employed.
Omaha was selected as the place for
the meeting of the International Union
of Stereotypers and Electrotypers In
1923 and Atlanta in 1924.
1t is estimated that 100000 tons Of
coal have been sold in the North and
East of England for shipment to the
United States before October 1.
The sum of $4,000 per year will be
saved by reason Of the city council OF
Elyria, Ohio, having cut the pay of
over 100 employees ten per cent.
The Minneapolis Trades and Labor
assembly, central labor body OF the
city, voted in favor of government
manufacture and sale of light wines
and beer.
Injunctions restraining railroad
strikers from molesting workers were
issued by federal courts in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Iowa, Montana and Cali
fornia.
Scientific methods for cutting down
the fatigue of factory workers is prov
ing successful, the result in one large
factory being a 27 per cent increase
In efficiency.
The Wisconsin Federation of Labor
went on record as unanimously in IA
vor cf modification of the VOlStead act
to permit the manufacture and sale OF
| light wines and beer
A shortage of fuel and resultant
shortage of steel resulted in the tenn
porary closing Of 26 tin mills of the
American Sheet and Tinplate company
at Farrell, Pa.
Nine hundred employees of j. Ii.
Winchell & Co., Haverhill, Mass,
makers of shoes, struck in protest
against state board decision grant
ing an additional wage cut.
The British Labor party made de-
cisive gain in the Welsh elections, 1t
was indicated in dispatches from Ponty-
prydd, which announced the victory or
Mardy Jones, Labor candidate.
Very little shipbuilding work is be-
ing done in Dublin just now. Since
the reduction of wages in Great Brit
ain cross-channel yards can submit
lower bids for work.
The Joint board of Fur Workers
unions announced that a general in
crease for fur workers in independent
shops amounting to about 70 per cent
had been obtained during the busy sea-
son tha last few weeks
The Toronto, (OhiO) plant Of the
Follansbee Brothers Sheet and Tin
Plate company closed because its fuel
supply was cut off, and the same COM
pany's plants at Follansbee, w. Va,
closed for the same reason.
The first result of the coal strike
was brought to Iron Mountain (Mich.)
when the Charcoal Iron company laid
off $50 men at the Yale mine because
of the rail tieup. Only one shift, instead
of two, will be operating hereafter.
The Wisconsin State Federation of
Labor, in convention, went on record
as heartily indorsing' movement to
bring farmers and organized labor into
a coalition for political action and the
formation Of farmer-labor leagues In
all congressional and legislative dis
tricts as a means of bringing political
| results.
Canadian shopmen employed by the
Grand Trunk railroad protested be-
cause that system was determined to
continue repairing engines and cars
ifc oh NV N q
| States, whose repairmen are on strike.
| The men forwarded a protest to the
government against having repairs
made in Canadian shops on rolling
stock sent from the United States line
where shopmen were striking.
Practically all workers in the cloak
and suit industry In New York-5O,-
600 in all-quietly left their jobs in
general "stoppage" directed against
the smaller manufacturing establish
ments cor sweatshops." About 800 Of
the larger shops included In the $500
vacated were permitted to resume
work, having agreed to the workers
demand for a forty-four-hour week,
double pay for holidays and time and
il half for overtime.
Demanding an increase Of 10 cents
an hour, which would boost their daily
wages from $2.70 to $3.50, the crew
of laborers employed on the Presque
Isle (Mich) drive paving job left
their work, declaring they would not
return for less than 40 cents an hour
| for a nine-hour day.
Jail sentences of six months each
were given three striking coal miners
by Judge McClintic in federal court
at Charleston, w. Va, following their
| conviction Of violating an injunction.
They were found guilty of persuading