Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-09-22
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

are illegal in Japan.
The Nicholson File company, Provi-
dence, r. l., posted notices that the
wages of the 1900 employees would
be increased 16 2-3 per cent, beginning
September 5.
The American Federation of Tex
tile operatives voted to accept the
offer of the Pacific mills to restore the
old wage rate on October 2, retroactive
to September 1.
Thomas Moore and P. M. Draper
were respectively reelected president
and secretary of the Canadian trades
labor congress. The 1923 convention
will be held in Vancouver.
Textile operatives of the New Mar
ket IN. H.) Manufacturing company
voted POI to 100 to 60 out on strike,
alleging discrimination on the part of
company officials.
An agreement between Oklahoma
coal operators and the United Mine
Workers was reached at conference
and ended the bituminOus strike In
force since April l.
Twenty-eight striking Northern Pa
cif1c shOpmen are starting suits for
$1,000 each against the railroad be-
cause they have lost their jobs. Boy
colt and blacklisting are charged.
Three thousand employees Of the
Ford tractor plant at Detroit have
been temporarily laid off because of
the shortage Of coal. The tractor
plant normally employs 26,OOO men.
At Newcastle, Pa, employees Of the
Lehigh-P Portland Cement company, 700
in number, returned to work following
the granting Of 20 per cent increase
in wages. The men had been out on
strike since August Il.
Coal miners and operators OF west
ern Canada have signed an agreement
by which the miners return to work
at Is per cent wage reduction from
1921 rates. The operators had asked
for 20 per cent reduction.
The joint wage conference between
the United States Potters association
and the National Brotherhood Of OPP
erative POtters ended deadlocked over
a new wage scale effective October !,
when the present wage agreement ex-
pires.
Irish labor decided not to withdraw
from participation in the Irish govern
ment. Previously labor leaders passed
resolution expressing the determina-
ton to resign, should the assembly of
the provisional parliament be post
poned again.
Employment In twelve major indus
tries Of the country during July dis
closed that in seven Of the industries
there was an increase in the number
Of persons employed and a decrease
in five, the Department Of Labor an
nounced.
Sharp clashes occurred between the
strikers and police and military at
Havre. France. The strikers pelted
the police with stones, whereupon cav
airy and mounted gendarmes repeated
ly charged and eventually scattered
the attackers.
China's first extensive railroad
strike, which recently tied up all traf-
fic on the Pekin- -Hankow line, has been
won by the strikers. Among other de-
mands of the workers granted by the
railroad, Is an increase In wages OF
10 cents a week.
Settlement of strike begun last
March by the members Of ten mold
ers' unions in Boston and vicinity has
been made. A one-year contract at
the old wage rate of Sc day was
signed. The men struck because Of
five cent per hour cut In wages.
Officers Of Philippine inter-island
vessels, who have been on strike for
a month in protest against wage re-
ductions, returned to work under a
temporary agreement, providing for
restoration of the old wage scale and
arbitration Of q proposed reduction
of 10 per cent.
Establishment of an unemployed
workers colony In northern Queens
land, suggested by the unemployed
workers committee, is to be placed
before the premier, following its ap-
proval by mass meeting Of the un-
employed. The objects Of the project
are to relieve distress and to demon
strate "that the working class is ca
pable of managing and controlling in
dustry," according to an announcement.
The American Smelling and Rein
ing company is planning to resume
operations about october 1 at its plant
In Monterey, Mexico, which has been
idle for approximately five years.
John Byus, superintendent of the
American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany at Elwood, Ind, has announced
that all day laborers at the plant would
receive 20 per cent raise. This raise
affects every one in the plant except
those employed in the hot mills and
those in the tin house. These depart
ments will receive raise in the near