Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-02-03
OTHER LABOR NOTES

| A strike has been declared in the
Transvaal gold and coal mines.
About 60 or 70 men were laid off
at the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway company's shops at Kansas
City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
announced 13 per cent reduction in
the working forces of the locomotive
and car repairs shops in Olean, n. Y.
Rural letter carriers Of Illinois are
fostering a movement to secure an
increase in pay They wish $75 per
mile per annum upon the basis of
24-mile route.
Seasonal winter unemployment has
made the already acute unemployment
situation in the United States much
worse since the first of the year, Sec
retary of Commerce Hoover declared.
A fight for making eight hours a
day, instead Of nine hours, the legal
| limit for employment of women in
Oklahoma will be made at the next
session of the legislature.
A reduction of Is per cent in wages,
the third cut to be made. was an
nounced by Ashland mine Greenwood,
Mich.,) owned by Hayes Bros. Fur
ther reductions are expected until some
scales have reached the 1918 level.
A wage reduction of 10 per cent has
been agreed to by the Joint Council,
United Shoe Workers of America, it
was announced. Manufacturers say
the reduction will promote early busi-
ness improvement.
The city council of Haverhill Mass,
Manufacturers association and the
Wood Heel Makers union readopt their
old working agreement until arbitra-
ton can settle recent differences.
Announcing substantial cuts in the
salaries of every plantation employee
from president to Office boy, the Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters association has
given the first official recognition Of
the fact that the nationwide depres-
sion has at last hit Hawaii
Reduction Of cents an hour in the
pay Of unskilled laborers, but none
in that Of skilled men, was awarded
In the settlement by the arbitration
board Of the wage dispute between II
paper manufacturing concerns ana
their employees In the United States
and Canada
The Ford Motor company resumed
operations in all departments at De-
troit after having been closed nearly
a month for inventory and repairs.
The rotation plan of employment, by
which 10000 are kept on the payroll,
$4,000 working at one time has been
retained.
The New York Central railroad re-
duced its force in the Corning IN. ~
car building and repair shops 80 per
cent, because Of falling off in busi
ness on its Pennsylvania division. The
shops had reopened only two months
ago, after having been closed for
eleven months.
Three hundred striking photo en-
gravers returned to work at New York
following the signing of new working
agreements by II photo engraving
firms, officials of the Photo Engravers'
union announced. Strike leaders pre-
dicted all the remaining 1,20O strikers
would soon be back to work.
The general executive board of the
International Fur Workers union vot-
ed to uphold the local unions of New
York, Brooklyn and Newark In their
demands for the maintenance Of ex-
listing conditions, which include the
forty-four hour week, time and half
for overtime and ten legal holidays
year.
Eight Of the IA largest industries
In the country showed an In
crease in volume of employment
during November as compared with
November, 1920, and nine of the IA
showed a decrease In volume Of
payroll, the Department of Labor
announced The decreases showed
by six of the industries in the num-
Der of employed were much lower
than the increases shown by the
others.
The executive board Of the United
Mine Workers, District No. 20, (Nova
Scotia) adopted a resolution advising
the coal miners of Nova Scotia to con-
tinue at work after the British En-
pire Steel corporation and constituent
companies put into effect wage re-
ducti0n Of 33 1-3 per cent.
The threatened strike of Chicago
fiat janitors was averted at a confer
ence. William Quesse, president Of
the janitors' union, and James j. Car
roll, representing the renting agents,