Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-10-06
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Nearly 100000 people are idle in
England.
Women fan makers in Spain receive
about 35 cents a day.
Not one person in a hundred is un-
employed in Germany.
In shipbuilding, $4,000 out Of every
$1,000 expended goes In wages.
The cotton industry Of England en-
ploys considerably more women than
men.
Out Of 65 leading cities, SO reported
employment increases during August
over July.
Unemployment doles in Switzerland
will in future vary with the cost of
living in each district.
The strike of the port workers at
Havre, France. was declared off and
the strikers returned to work.
The receipts Of the International
Typographical union for 1922 totaled
$13,516,17S, while expenditures totaled
$1O,253, 145, leaving balance OF
s., 3,263, ,032 In the treasury.
At Mexico City, Mex, five periodicals
published by the Universal Publishing
company were suspended, due to in
ability to come to an agreement with
the striking reporters and pressmen.
The number of active blast furnaces
In the Youngstown district was brought
up to 20 out of Al when the last stack
OF the Youngstown Sheet Tube COM
pany was blown in at the East Youngs-
town plant.
The plant Of the Algoma Steel cor
poration at Saulte Ste Marie, Ont,
closed down for an indefinite period.
Fifteen hundred workers were thrown
out of employment. Shortage Of coal
was given as the cause.
OF 65 leading cities In the United
States, 80 reported increased employ
ment during August over July, while
only % recorded decreases, according
TO an industrial analysis issued by
the Department of Labor.
Notices announcing a wage increase
were posted at the plant of the Black
stone Manufacturing company, North
Smithfeld, r. l., which normally EN-.
ploys 500 operatives. The amount Of
the increase was not stated.
The Ford Motor company will wage
aggressive war against all forms Of
intoxication. The odor Of intoxicants
on an employees breath, the possession
Of liquor on his person or in his home
will rpoon instant 6{CaharOl
A loan Of 100000 was obtained by
the United Mine Workers of America
from the Hartman National bank Of
New York. The money was used to
finance food supplies and shelter for
the strikers during the coal strike.
Washington ID. O. Central Labor
union branded the action Of Attorney
General Daugherty in obtaining an in
junction against the rail shop crafts
as violation Of the constitutional
rights Of men, shameless misuse Of
public Office and a perversion Of gov
ernmental functions.
One hundred union potters quit work
at the plant Of the Standard Sanitary
Manufacturing company, Tiffin, Ohio,
as protest against the employment
of several non-union mOlders. The
wage agreement Of the striking
men and other sanitary potters Of the
country expired October l.
Orders for 100000 tons Of foundry
iron have been received in Great
Britain recently, as a result, 1t Is be-
lieved, Of the labor disputes in the
United States and Canada. Scottish
ironmasters, whose stocks had been
cleared out, gre preparing to light
their furnaces In consequence Of the
orders.
The Pepperell Manufacturing COM
pany Of Biddeford, Me-, and the York
Manufacturing company of Saco an
nOunced that wages in their cotton
mills would be resumed to the scale
in effect before the 20 per cent reduc-
tion made last winter. About $500
operatives are employed in these mills
under normal operations. They ac-
cepted last winters wage cut without
q strike.
The British trade union congress
turned down the proposal for labor
general staff for strike purposes. For
more than a year the radicals have
been agitating for the creation Of
such a staff, the idea being that 1t
would have the power to call general
strike to support any particular in
dustry.
The Wheeling (W. Va.) Steel cor
poration, employing approximately
$4,000 men, will meet the 20 per cent
wage advance announced by the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, 1t was
efncially stated.