Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-12-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Elgnry-s1X cIt of every 100 acci
dents are preventable.
There are 1916 mems and boys
clothing establishments in Canada.
There are nearly 100000 women
gainfully employed in New York city.
Canadian coal miners propose de-
manding a six-hour day and a tive-day
week.
Textile mills In Austria are now op-
Grating at 70 per cent of their Ca
pacity.
Infections Of the nose and throat
are the cause Of 40 per cent of the alb
Senteeism among store workers.
The annual production of Canadian
manufacturing industries now amounts
to approximately $4OO per capita.
Construction of the 10000 horse
power auxiliary steam power plant of
the Tennessee Electrical Power com
pany will begin early next year.
Fact-fnding with regard to wages
and earnings Of mine workers will be
done by Prof. Joseph S. Willitts of
the University of Pennsylvania. for
the Presidents coal commission.
Announcement has been made that
the Barberton Foundry company, Bar
berton, Ohio, will increase materially
its production space to make possible
production Of new lines of equipment
Three hundred and fifty car repair
men and shopmen Of the Baltimore g.
Ohio railroad employed In the shops
at Cumberland, Md, and at Keyser
W. Va, were indefinitely furloughed.
Westinghouse Electric Manufactur-
Ing company is starting construction
at Chicago of a S2,5O0,OO0 warehouse
and manufacturing plant to provide an.
additional 100000 square feet of floor
space.
More than 800 business and indus
trial firms in Great Britain publish
their own house magazines filed with
details Of pensions and welfare
schemes, and the social, athletic and
other activities Of the workers.
The railway station masters and
shop mechanics are on strike through
out Jamaica, owing to 25 per cent
reduction. The strikers demand the
recall Of the director of the railroads
1t is reported that the governor may
resign.
Agents Of the Department Of Labor
adjudicated dispute in the coal-min-
Ing industry at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, In
volvlng 1900 workers. A strike OF
wOrkmen in the plant Of the United
States Cast Iron Pipe company at
Scottdale, Pa. involving TOO men also
was adjusted
Thirty-nine strikes, none of which
involve any considerable humber OF
workers, are now before the Depart
ment Of Labor for settlement the
department. announced. In addition.
the department is handling nine con-
troversies which have not reached the
strike stage.
The New York Appellate division de-
cided that a number Of stone masonsy
indicted as result Of testimony given
before the lockwood committee, who
were members Of the Stone Masons'
Contracting association, must. stand
trial on indictments returned against
them for combining unlawfully to fix
the price OF laying foundations Of
buildings.
Industrial managers must not at
tempt to use the usual representation
plan as an instrument to fight organ
ized labor, Eugene G. Grace, presi-
dent Of the Bethlehem Steel company,
told Cleveland business men. II warn
you against that. You must make an
honest effort to give labor q voice with
management in the operation Of the
plant and 1t must be no camoufage
scheme to kill the union"
Wage Increases, which If granted,
would add more than $35,O00,OO0 a
year to the payroll of the 200 stand
ard railroads of the country, were
asked before the United States rail-
road labor board by 271,0OO railway
and steamship clerks, freight handlers
and express and station employees
The printers strike is spreading
throughout Switzerland, and the So
clalist news, Tagwacht, Is the only
journal published This strike was
called to enforce labor organization
regulations, but 1t involves wage de
Mauds.