Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-01-20
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

The miners In the ASturlan (Spaln)
district, who had been on strike, re-
Sumed work
All of the old officials of the de-
posed executive board Of district No.
II, United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, were reelected.
Announcement was made that 500
employees of the New York Central
railroad repair shops at Elkhart, Ind,
will be laid off Indefinitely.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
adopted a resolution urging President
Harding to release Eugene Debs, So
cialist leader, serving a sentence In
Atlanta.
The Missouri Pacific closed It's five
construction shops for an indefinite
period. Decreased business necessi-
tated the action as an economic meas
ure, 1t was stated.
The Swiss national council, after a
long and violent debate, adopted bill
providing that fomenters of revolution
or of general strikes henceforth shall
be punished with Imprisonment.
Telephone service in Saline county,
Illinois, was badly crippled as result
of strike by telephone operators Of
the MurphysborO Telephone company,
who claimed the company attempted
to reduce wages.
The Minneapolis city clerk sent
resolution passed by the city council
to President Harding and Secretary
of Labor Davis urging them to submit
the packing house strike in South st.
Paul to arbitration.
Seamen Of several Japanese lines,
including the Toyo Rsen Kaisha, Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha and Osaka Shosen
Kaisha, have been granted a 27 per
cent increase in wages, after demand
ing 100 per cent raise.
Approximately 400 men were thrown
Chevrolet Motor Car company closed
it's plant until the first Of the year.
The shutdown is for the purpose Of
taking an inventory, it was announced.
Approximately one thousand loco
motive workers and car men employed
at the South Minneapolis shops Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road were thrown out of work when
orders for a shutdown became effec-
tive.
No leases will be made with steam
ship companies for piers at New York
unless they promise to enforce the
eight-hour law If a request sent to
Mayor Hylan by Port Watchmen's Un-
ion No. II is granted. The union goes
even further and asks that all existing
leases be changed to provide such a
clause.
Operation of its coal mines at night
as we'll as through the day, a radical
departure from established custom in
the industry, has been decided on by
the Lafollette Coal and Iron company
and It's employees, at Lafollette, Tenn.
The plan is intended not only to give
miners more work, but to reduce the
cost of production.
The Supreme court of the United
States, In new decision, has reiter-
ated its declaration that violent tao
tics must not accompany picketing in
labor disputes, and that where vio-
lence exists 1t is the duty Of the
courts to issue injunctions. The de-
cision is one more step in the direc-
ton Of establishing precedents to gov
ary IpductisiaI warfare
An injunction restraining the Build
ing Trades council and the st. Louis
local Of the Journeymen Stone Gut
ters' association from interfering with
the use of Bedford (Ind.) stone at
st. Louis and in the vicinity was Is
sued by Judge Far1s Of the Federal
District court, on the application of
Shea & DonnelIy and other stone com
panies near Bedford.
Opposition will be made to the pro
posed wage cut of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad, and the ques-
ton will be taken up with the rail.
road labor board, according to w. e.
Williams, assistant to the roads chief
operating official. Employees were
notified November Is that the com
pany desired to make cuts Of IL pei
cent to AZ per cent in wages. The
men asked for time to consider the re
duction. Williams said the reductions
would bring wages to the scale IL
force prior to July, 1920.
Twenty-seven coal mines in thu
vicinity of Belleville, Ill.,, are working
on an average of one and one-half days
week. Several others have beer
forced to shut down entirely, ant
others report only an occasional da!
of work. Lack of market is the chile
cause assigned.
Four hundred men are affected b.
orders received for the closing OF tn
Boston & Albany locomotive repai
shops In West Springfield, Mass, TO
two weeks. No reason for the shut
down is announced. The car repai
shops will continue in operation.