Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
OTHER LABOR NOTES

nonunion mines Of Somerset county,
Pennsylvania, continued at work.
An increase cf more than 5000 men
employed by Detroit factories was re-
ported by the employers association.
Employees Of the Kimberly Clark
company, Neenah, Wis, have accepted
a reduction Of four cents per hour In
wages.
The Buffalo IN. W Builders ex-
change decided to put into effect a 1O
per cent cut in wages on all trades In
the building lines.
The Swiss federal council introduced
bill in the chamber authorizing the
government to lengthen the legal work.
ing week to "a hours.
The Advance-Rumley thresher plant
at Laporte, Ind, is advertising for 5OO
mechanics and will operate within 90
per cent Of capacity.
Union miners at Petersburg, ILL.,,
adopted a resolution demanding that
salaries of union officials be cut OH
during strike periods.
Steel mill operations In the Youngs-
town (Ohio) district average more
than Is per cent of capacity, the high
est ratio for 18 months.
One Of the earliest unions Of women
workers In America, If not the very
first, was that organized by the mail
girls of Dover, N. H., in 1928.
The California Manufacturers as
ISOLATION has asked the state to re-
duce the women's weekly minimum
wage from $18 week to $3.50.
The labor cost of producing anthra-
cite coal has been increased from
s1.5O per ton in 1913, to 1886 per ton
under the wage scale just expired.
Eight thousand miners In District
18, United Mine Workers Of America,
comprising Alberta and eastern Brit
ish Columbia, carried out the order for
a strike.
South Bend, Ind, has taken front
rank among Indiana cities. It's Amer
lean Legion has provided work Tor all
former service men who were with
out Jobs.
Salem (Ohio) plumbers announced a
voluntary wage cut Of ten cents an
hour for all journeymen. The new
wage scale is 90 cents an hour for A
hours a week.
The number Of workers tabulated IN
representative United States indus
tries on March 81 represented an In
crease Of 2.5 per cent over the total
on February %.
A wage agreement calling for 81
cents an hour, reduction of IA cents
an Lour ,lrs been ratified by 500 enl-
pIovees of the East st. Louis & Sub
u.ban Railway company.
The general lockout Of unionized Ia
Dor throughout Denmark was called
off. The lockout began with strike
troubles and tied up all branches OF
Industry. 1t had been in effect about a
month.
Jan Christian SHUTS, prime minister
of the Union of South Africa, an
nounced In the assembly that the re-
cent fighting had resulted in the death
Of 1873 white men, and the wOunding
Of 524 others.
Two hundred and ten miners were
killed In ccal mines during February,
an increase Of fifty fatalities, or about
81 per cent over the casualties In Feb
ruary, 1921, the United States bureau
Of mines announced.
First effects of the strike of the coal
miners were felt in Middietown N. Y.
when B. P. Flory, superintendent OF
motive power, notified 272 employees
of the Ontario & Western railroad that
they would be laid of for an indef.
mite period.
Workers In all Italian ports began
untangling the huge mass of cargo
which had accumulated for the IL
days the men were on strike. The
men accepted the governments promise
to introduce changes in working condi-
tions prevailing at Naples, where the
strike began.
The Granite Cutters international
union voted unanimously to reject the
new agreement at reduced wages
offered by the employers, and will not
resume work until new contract has
been signed. The proposed agreement
provided for reduction Of from 81
to 80 cents an hour in the minimum
wage which would apply to cutters
polishers and sharpeners.
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover declared in a speech at Denver
that the peak of the period Of liquida'
tion" was reached last July, when
there were 100000 unemployed in
the United States. He said this mum
Der had been cut in half now.
Unemployment In California has de
creased within the last three months
from $4,000 to 10000. according to q
statement by John s. Blair, deputy
state labor commissioners. Blair de
clared recent developments in labor In
dicated the problem would be solved
,,,.rino tho coming summer and that all