Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-09-01
OTHER LABOR NOTES

last year
Large initial applications for work
ers marked re-establishment at
Charleston, w. Va, Of the United
States employment service.
More than 80 per cent of the men
and 78 per cent of the women clothing
workers in New York state work on
a forty-four-hour-a-w schedule.
The Independent Inside Iron and
Bronze Workers Union has officially
notified the employers that the Al
hour week must be reinstated in the
industry.
The national convention of the Glass
Bottle Blowers association adopted
resolutions favoring manufacture OF
light wine and beer and old-age-pen-
sion laws for all states.
Union employees of the Merrimac
Manufacturing company Of Lowell,
which employs about 1000 operatives
walked out upon announcement OF
20 per cent wage reduction.
Plans have been revived for estab-
fishing a large industry on the west
coast of the Humber river, on the west
coast of Newfoundland. Paper Is to
be produced.
Postoffice clerks throughout the
United States during the remainder
of the summer season are to be per-
mitted to enjoy a half-hollday each
Saturday, providing the work assigned
to them has been completed by noon
on that day.
According to the terms of an agree
ment between the officials OF the
Danish ShipoWners' association, wages
will be increased or reduced in pro
portion to the rise or fall in the cost
Of living as shown by the statistical
bureaus price list.
Six Of IL Kansas City elevators,
whose employees have been on strike
for two weeks against wage cut,
signed agreements with the Elevator
Workers union, renewing the old wage
scale and agreeing to reinstate the
strikers with seniority rights.
The United Hebrew Trades. repre-.
senting about 100000 Jewish workers
on New York's east side, has started
a campaign to raise $4,000 to be
turned over to the United Mine Work.
ers to finance the present miners
strike.
The Danville (Pa.) plant OF the
Reading Iron company resumed op-
erations after shutdown for repairs.
Wages of puddlers have been ad-
vanced from $3.50 to $3.50 ton,
of ~ nT0n0T.
tion.
In the section of Louisiana Of which
Shreveport is the commercial and
financial center, the Standard Oh
company will expend 100000 for
construction of additional oil pipe
lines, THAT will increase daily capacity
from $4,000 to 10000 barrels.
Strikes have been called by the
United Textile Workers against the
Massachusetts mills, the Hamilton
Manufacturing company and the Bay
State Cotton corporation, the latter
two plants having adopted the 20 per
cent reduction some months ago.
Youngstown (Ohio) city pay roll
was cut $3.50 day when Mayor VIII
liam G. Reese ordered the discharge
of fifty-three men from the city water
department and FIVE street employees.
Curtailment of water line extensions
and street repairs make the places un-
necessary.
Minneapolis will be the home Of the
fifth railroad brotherhood bank In the
United States, when the Transporta-
tion National bank Is opened Septem-
Der l. The bank will accept deposits
and make loans in the usual banking
way. 1t will be limited to ten per
cent in the dividends that can be.
declared to stockholders, Who will be
exclusively members Of the four
brotherhoods.
AS the result Of representations
made to the Persian government by
| the League of Nations regarding the
bad working conditions prevailing
among the children employed In car
| pet weaving in Herman, it Is reported
that, effective December l, 1927, the
| eight-hour day has been introduced,
with liberty of contract, at 5 per cent
wage raise and weekly rest days and
the observation of holidays.
The New England textile strike,
which is in it's seventh month with
$4,000 operatives idle and more than
40 plants affected has spread in force
to Lowell, Mass. Strikes were called
against three plants in Lowell which
reduced wages 20 per cent. These
plants employ more than 10000 oper-
atives.
| Negotiation Of a new wage scale,
to affect 1000 railway workers out
side the running trades, was opened by
| officials of the Grand Trunk and dele
| gates of the Canadian Brotherhood