Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-12-28
OTHER NEWS OF LABOR

A wage agreement affecting $4,000
rail shopmen was reached between the
Railway Association of Canada and
representatives Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, after a five days'
parley. Wheel pressmen and beltmen
VIII receive two cents more an hour,
while men operating paint-spraying
machines were raised IL cents an hour.
The classification of men operating
iwrecking trains was raised.
The furnaces at Bessemer, Ala. of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
! company, subsidiary of the United
States Steel corporation, have been
put on an eight-hour basis and three
shifts are employed where in the past
there have been only two This is the
first definite step taken in the Bes-
semer district toward completing the
agreement made by steel manufacture
ers to put their plants on strictly
eight-hour basis.
The shortage of bricklayers, which
limits the market for face brick and
retards the building program every
where, was the main topic of discus
sion at the annual convention of the
American Face Brick association in
French Lick, Ind. ]. NJ. Adams, pres
ident of the association, in addressing
the convention, said the "craze for
white collar jobs" and the rigid rules
of apprenticeship laid down by trade
unions are the main reasons for the
shortage.
Increases in wages totaling $685.
429.0S were awarded to track fore
men, track laborerS and other en-
ployees represented by the Brotherhood
of Maintenance of Way Employees and
Railway Shop Laborers and the Broth
.erhood of Railway Station Employees,
in a decision announced by the Unit
ed States railroad labor board. The
increases range from l to cents an
hour and, according to statisticians of
the board, affect 22,612 employees of
seven railroads.
Trade unionism in Great Britain Is
recognizing the fact that the decline
of the apprenticeship system Is threat
ening the existence Of the craft unions
In that country. Industrial recruits
are so scarce that national campaign
is to be undertaken by the Federation
OF Building Trades Operatives to re-
vive the system. 1t has been empha-
sized that casual labor Is replacing
skilled artisans in the labor market,
w III ffni irHc
craftsmen are said to be finding Jobs
In the United States and British do.
minions the supply Of trained labor
for Britain is being stopped at the
source.
Washington's army of 65,0OO govern
ment employees lives practically from
hand to mouth. Eighty-five per cent Of
the semi-monthly pay checks paid out
by the government are back in circula-
tion within three days after they are
issued and that percentage-possibly
more-is spent in Washington with
merchants, bankers and mercantile in
stitutions Of that city benefiting by
the rapid turnover. These facts con-
stitute one of the reasons why Wash
ington's business moves along with a
degree Of continuity and assured free
dom from hard times" experienced in
few other cities, according to Arthur
4. Seymour, secretary Of the chamber
of commerce.
The proportion Of the total child la
Dor population ten to fifteen years of
age, inclusive, employed in gaipful
ranges from per cent
In the three Pacific coast states to II
per cent in the east central states, COM
prising Kentucky, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi, according to the latest infor-
nation available.
Average wages il Russia are equiva-
lent to $6.17 month, according to a
report to the Department of Com
.merce The figure is calculated by
dividing paper money wages by the
index Of cost Of living.