Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-03-10
OTHER LABOR NOTES

ming the construction or 6,OOO miles or
highways during the next five months,
thus offering employment to seme
100000 men.
More than 1000 striking members
of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America,
at union meeting at Omaha, voted to
call off the strike in the local packing
plants.
Coal operators of southern Ohio
adopted a new wage scale to supplant
that expiring on April 1st providing
for reductions averaging from 81 per
cent to 46 2-3 per cent. The check off
system also is abolished.
Notices posted by the American
Woolen company at their plants in
Thamesville and Yantic, Conn, in
formed operatives that the mills would
60 on a 4S-hour basis, instead Of 55,
weekly, without a reduction in wages.
Although not party to the Lands
! arbitration in the building construc-
tion-wage dispute, the Chicago plas-
terers' union voted to accept the
Lands scale, making voluntary cut
in their wages from $1.o5 an hour to
$1.10.
Approximately 375 of 500 men en-
ployed as ice harvesters by the City
Ice Delivery company of Cleveland on
Sandusky bay, struck for higher
wages Some demanded $4 a day
and others $3.50. They had been
getting $3.50.
Two thousand St. Louis painters, in
terror decorators and paper hangers
are working for 81 an hour, reduc-
ton of 20 per cent from the present
scale Of $125 per hour. The men In
volved decided by vote to accept the
proposed reduction.
Monument manufacturers and afili-
ated plants in the Pacific Northwest
states. Montana and British Columbia,
said to number about 75 went on an
"open shop basis as the result of a
resolution passed at the annual con-
vention of the Northwest Monumental
Craftsmen's association.
During 1921 there were 675 man.
, ufacturing establishments in the city
Of Vancouver. B. c., employing 1878
hands, with a total production of the
value Of S87, ,786, ,041. In 1917 the num-
Der Of manufacturing establishments
in the city was 62O, with 14,475 hands
employed, and a production value Of
$57, ,172, 300.
Union steamftters of Syracuse, n.
Y, reached an agreement with the
! Master Steamfitters' association to ac-
cept two wage reductions, the first to
take effect Feb 1 and the second Sept.
1. The men are now receiving $1.12h
an hour and Feb. the scale will be
cut to $1O5. Sept. 1 a further cut to
81 an hour will become effective.
Twelve hundred miners in Tennessee
were on strike in protest against the
decision of an arbitration board re-
ducing wages "a cents on coal mined.
The present wage contract does not
expire until April, but operators de-
clare they found it necessary to re-
duce wages in order to meet competi-
tion in the West Virginia field.
All mills in the No. l and No. 2
sheet floor department of the Allie
aheny Steel company at Breckenridge,
Pa, resumed operations. 1t is the first
time in many months that both sheet
floors of the Breckenridge plant have
worked in full during the same week,
and makes the operation Of the plant
virtually 100 per cent. The bar mill,
tube mill and open hearth departments
are in operation.
! The threatened strike Of New York
| fur workers was not called on Feb.
i, as representatives Of the Asso-
ciated Fur Manufacturers and the Fur
riers union got together and settled
their differences, they said. Accord
ing to an announcement made by the
union, the present agreement will be
continued in force for two years. In
the discussion over the signing Of the
new contract changes In the wage
scale were not stressed.
wage reduction of per cent effec-
| tive Immediately in the 38 wood heel
factories at Haverhill, Mass, has been
agreed upon by the manufacturers. A
strike in the 20 factories operated
by the Manufacturers association has
been in progress since the first Of the
year when the employers announced
a wage cut Of 10 per cent and refused
the unions request for renewal of
the 1921 scale. The employees recent
| ly agreed to accept the per cent cut.
The Arctic mill at Arctic, R. l.. was
| closed by the failure of some Of Its
help to report for work. This is the
fifth mill owned by 81. B. & r. Knight,
| in the Pawtucket valley, to shut down
as result of strikes in protest
against the 20 per cent wage cut.
Announcement was made at Mime
apolis by officials of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul railroad that, ef-
fective Immediately, 250 machinists,
blacksmiths, electricians and pipe fit
ters of that road would be laid off in
definitely. No reason for the layoff
was given.