Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-25

John Croniak, striking street car
conductor, was killed at Buffalo, N.
Y, when Patrolman Edwin Sisson,
guarding a Sycamore street car, fired
into a crowd which had attacked the
car.
Dodge Brothers, Detroit automobile
manufacturers, have purchased a sew
en- and half acre factory site in
Windsor, Ont, with a view to erecting
a large plant to care for the Canadian
trade.
st. Louis motion picture theaters
again have Orchestras following the
settlement of the musicians strike
which began May /. The musicians re-
turned to the orchestra pits at their
old wages.
The Italian ministry of the interior
announced that the general strike
which was proclaimed throughout
Italy in protest against Fascist re-
prisals against communists was de-
clared ended.
Henry Ford has launched upon
new enterprise, that of glass making.
The manufacturer has established at
Detroit and begun to operate a plant
that will produce glass for automobile
windshields
The plant of the Charleston Milling
company, Charleston, Mo-, which had
been closed down several months be-
cause Of bankruptcy proceedings, re-
sumed operations and will continue
at full capacity.
Upon request Of the miners en-
ployed in the state collieries, the Hun
garian government has decided to pay
the same wages and to grant them
the same favors received by the min
ers employed in private mines.
Thirty per cent of the shop equip
ment of the Illinois Central railroad
at Jackson, Tenn. has been removed
to Halleyville, Ala. The transfer, it Is
said, will result in a cut of approx
mately $4,000 monthly in the roads
payroll.
The threatened strike of the sea-
men on boats Of the Lake Carriers as
sociation has been definitely called off,
despite SO per cent vote in favor of
a walkout, officials of the Sailors
union and the Oilers and Watertend-
ers' union stated.
The exact cost of the strike to the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad in furnishing protection to its
employees and in combating the activi-
ties of strikers is declared to have
been $3650OO since the shopmen
walked out July 1.
The Seneca Glass company, Morgan
town, w. Va, resumed operation of
one of it's local factories which has
been shut down, with the exception of
one or two short periods of operation,
for four years. Fifty men are now
employed at the factory.
approximately 500 men who had
been on strike at the Shelby Steel
Tube plant at Ellwood City, Pa, re-
turned to work. The men demanded a
return to the 1920 wage scale. The
company offered them new working
conditions and they accepted.
An amendment to a recent resolu-
tion providing for reduction in teach
ers' salaries was adopted by the
school board Of Marion, Ohio, fixing
the maximum at $160 a month and
leaving the minimum at the figure pro
vided by the original reduction.
The demand for building trades
craftsmen in California has resulted
in a shortage of these workmen in
western Washington. 1t Is said that
craftsmen have been induced to go to
California with promises of as much
as SO a day above the union scale.
An increase in wages was called for
at the conference of the SOath Wales
Miners federation at Cardiff. By
resolution the conference decided that
the Miners Federation of Great Brit
ain be asked to make immediate appli-
Nation to the owners for an increase
60 per cent above the present wages.