Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-12-15
OTHER LABOR NOTES

New York boasts of 2SO lady chauf-
feurs and 80 female teamsters.
Several factories are in operation
in Germany for the purpose of recover
ing coal from ashes. 4
Unemployment in Denmark has been
steadily dropping at the rate of about
1000 persons per week.
The amount Of wages lost In l921
in the state Of Pennsylvania because
Of accidents was $9,90OOOO.
The number Of persons recorded on
October 16 on the live registers of the
employment exchanges in Great Brit
ain as wholly unemployed was 1,332,-
800.
Unable to get sufficient paper money
from the Reichsbank to meet its vast
payroll, the famous Krupp works, In
Germany, Is issuing it's own currency
and paying wages with 1t.
Private dispatches from Guayaquli,
Ecuador, given out by La Prensa, re-
port that 100 persons were killed and
many wounded in a battle between
strikers and regular troops at Guaya-
quill.
The report Of the local wage board
recommending a further decrease or
one cent an hour In the pay of en-
ployees of the Washington navy yard
will be appealed to the departmental
wage board.
Four members of the federal COM
mission which will investigate labor
conditions in Hawaii, on arrival, said
that they hoped to conclude their work
In time to make report to Washing
ton by January Is.
Danger of q general strike OF the
| 1900 tidewater. boat captains In New
York harbor ended when the shippers
| agreed to accept an offer from the
| Coal Merchants association prOvid-
ing for fiat wage of 500 month
with years agreement.
BY finding for the shopmen and
against the Western Maryland Railway
| company on the question of contracting
out shop work the railroad labor board
for the first time has deviated from
it's policy that employees by striking
take themselves from the jurisdiction
of the transportation act.
Bricklayers employed on four or
| five construction jobs In New York
went on strike because the employers
insisted upon the use of Independent
laborers instead Of laborers who are
members of the international union
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
An increase Of 81 day In the
wages Of bricklayers was recommend
ed by the San Francisco Builders ex-
change, an organization Of employers,
at the opening Of hearings befoce the
wage board named by the Industrial
association to fix 1928 wage scale
for the building trades. The present
wage Of bricklayers Is 50 day.
The Communist party In the United
States has failed to succeed because
the Communists have not yet secured
hold upon the American Federation
Of Labor and other trade union mem
bers, asserted an American delegate to
the Third Internationale, speaking sat
Moscow upon alleged capitalist at
JACKS upon the WOIkcIs.
Ex-service immigrants from Great
Britain are shipping out to New South
\ Wales, Australia, to break down ag
ricultural wages that have been set
! by the New South Wales government
Checks for $3.50 or certificates fol-
I five shares of stock were presented
j to all employees of the Southern rail
I way who volunteered to leave their
regular duties and serve In the shops
I during the strike of the shopmen last
. summer.
Allen 4. Barker, former granf
. president Of the United Brotherhood
of Maintenance-ofWay Employees ant
Railway Shop Laborers, must return
$177,OOO to the organization, accord
ing to a decision handed down by
Judge Henry A. Mandell in Circuit
| court at Detroit. Barker must als(
| make an accounting of $4,000 more
| that he was shown to have expended
| under the head of special organiza
ton"
1t Is estimated that the factories iii
Japan have discharged some COCOON
workers since the business depression
year before last. Taking 1,866,OOO a
the number Of industrial workers 0
: the country, the discharged amount t.
almost one-third.
The stove workers division of tn
International Iron Molders' union, II
bringing to close a weeks c0nven
tion, decided to ask for an increas
of wages, and announced that cor
ference would be held sometime In De
cember with the Stove Founders Ma
4 fiaua1 TiafOnsa. association