Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-12-29
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Tne Chevrolet division of the Cen
eral Motors corporation has acquired
16 acres Of ground at Norwood, near
Cincinnati o., where it will build
plant employing 1000 men.
A reduction of $1.2O to $1.5O bale
on freight charges upon cotton be-
tween the Memphis section and New
York and New England Is announced
| by the Federal Barge line.
More than 6OOOOO,OOO pounds of
crude rubber will be the total imports
by the United States in 1922, it is in
dicated in reports to the Department
OF Commerce, the highest in history.
Some of the carpet manufacturers
| in Europe are charged with systemati-
cally reproducing popular American
made designs, with a view Of direct
competition with the American carpet
makers.
Union carpenters in Cincinnati have
asked for an increase in wages of 10
cents an hour, it was announced fol-
| lowing conference of representatives
! Of the Builders association and the
carpenters district council. The pres
| ent agreement under which the men
receive 50 cents an hour terminates
| December %.
No move to lower wages Of miners
or remove any favorable working con-
! ditions granted them in recent years
would be accepted by the miners,
Ellis Searles, editor Of the official
publication Of the United Mine Work
ers, declared.
Wages which "enable labor only
to break even" and the 12-hour day,
which, he said, prevails in mines in
Nevada, Montana, Arizona and New
Mexico, were denounced by James j.
Davis, secretary of labor, in an ad-
dress at Kansas City.
| Many Italian labor organizations are
wiring Premier Mussolini offering to
work an extra hour per day for the
benefit Of the government. Railroad
men from the province Of Treyiso
wired as follows: "We offer the gov
ernment one hour a day work"
Operations at the Antioch Qnd. )coal
mine, northwest of Linton, owned by the
| Merchants Heat and Light company,
stopped when the 200 miners employed
at the mine refused to work until the
differences between the machine men
and the operators of the mine had
been adjusted.
| Damages for $4,000 are claimed
| from the joint board of the Dress and
Waist Makers union in a suit filed in
the Supreme court at New York by
the Dress Clearing House, Inc. The
firm charges it has suffered heavy
damages because of strike conducted
by the union.
British Columbia's payroll for the
lumber industry in 1922 will run over
$20,0O0,O00, according to officials OF the
provincial government who have based
their calculations on returns from 532
| firms, whose statistics show that In
| 1921 the payroll amounted to SIS, $780,
| 962, with an average number OF wage
| earners of 14,5OO.
One-eighth of the textile spindles in
| the United States must be made idle
one day weekly, Charles l. Burkholder,
vice president of the Southern Power
company, announced in making known
| that his company had been compelled
| by diminishing water supply due to
drought to curtail operations until the
winter rains begin.
Cooperation of retailers and con-
sumers of coal to allow the coal mine
operator to produce evenly throughout
the year, was recommended to the fed
eral coal commission by retail coal
merchants In the interest of stabiliza-
tion of the industry and equitable dis
tribution and costs.
The average difference between
farm and terminal prices Of the total
estimated wheat crop during the crop
movement year 1920-1921 was 17.2
cents per bushel, reports the federal
Department of Agriculture. The av-
erage difference in corn prices was
0.7 cents and oats 81 cents.
Vice Consul Alexander, stationed at
Porto Cortes, reports that in Honduras
commodities from the United States
constitute the bulk Of the imports, be.
cause Of their superior quality, despite
the advantages in price and terms held