Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-21
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


Union plumbers of Fort Worth, Tex
as, voluntarily reduced their daily
wages from $40 to SO. The scale is ef-
fective April 1.
Contracts for signal and interlock-
ing plant improvements this year,
amounting to 100000, have been let
by the Northern Pacific railway.
Hosting engineers Of st. Louis, vot-
ed to accept cut In their wages from
$1.25 an hour to $1.12h cents an hour.
at once.
Mines In Zacateas are opening again
and freight rates are generally more
favorable to shippers, according to min
ing men in Ell Paso who have interests
In the Mexican state.
Anticipation Of marked decline In
business, owing to the mine strike,
was given by the Chicago & Alton road
as q reason for laying off $50 employ
ees of the Bloomington (nl.) shops.
Compulsory arbitration Of labor dis
putes in Norway is provided for in a
bill adopted by the lagting. The meas
ure is in the same form as when it
passed the odelsting. It therefore be-
comes a law.
Two hundred men went back to
work at the National Fireproo1ng
works at Hobart, Ind, which has been
idle since last fall. Improved business
conditions make certain that the plant
will be operated several months.
Idle freight cars on March 15 to-
tailed 991, ,797, decrease Of 1885, COM
pared with the 39e,982 on March s,
according to reports to the American
Railway association. Surplus coal cars
in good repair numbered 79,S03, a de-
crease Of 6.661.
Members Of the Sheet Metal Work
ers' union In Syracuse, N. Y, voted to
accept a wage cut Of from 81 an hour
to 90 cents. The contractors agreed
to concessions which will make the
working conditions better for the men.
The new scale will be effective May l.
This ends lockout that has been in
force for several weeks.
The Round Oak Stove works at
Dowagiac, the biggest concern of it's
kind in Michigan, went back to a FIVE
day week schedule. For year the
factory has been running three days
week with a greatly reduced force.
Other stove factories at Dowagiac, 1t
was indicated, would also increase the
working week without putting On more
men.
Wage cuts, running as high as 20
per cent in some departments, have
been submitted by the Marlboro
(Mass.) Shoe company to It's employees.
A stipulation in the agreement between
the union and the company provides
that all matters pertaining to reduc-
tion Of wages must be submitted to the
state board of arbitration and concilia-
tion, which will be done in this case.
Union miners, formerly employed by
the Fairmont-M t-Morgantown Coal COM
pany at Lowesville, near Morgantown,
w. Va, lost their fight to retain pos
session of company houses when two
constables, armed with eviction war
rants and definite instructions to GUST
whomever and whatever are In the
houses, lock the doors and turn the
keys over to John Y. Hite, president
Of the company, began the work.
/ Employment exchanges In France
found permanent and temporary en-
pioyment In 1921 for over 100000
workers. Work was found for 250,OOO
women and nearly 100000 general la
borers. twenty-five per cent of the
filed involved a change of
residence for the workers.
A new wage agreement signed by
representatives of the Amalgamted
Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America and
officers Of the Manchester IN. H.
Street Railway company, calls for a
cut of cents per hour In wages and
20 per cent reduction In overtime.