Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-30
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

A town III SaAOHy DodSlS oL Sullo
Of hand weavers which has been in
continuous existence for more than
four hundred years.
Secretary Hughes authorized state
ment that he never had heard OF
plan to transport American Negroes
to Europe to work in coal mines in
the Ruhr.
An industrial plan is proposed by
the management of the Pacific cotton
mills in Lawrence, Mass, to give EN-
pioyees voice and counsel in the man
agement. The purpose is to seek closer
relations and avert Industrial strife.
Iron puddlers will receive S1l.62 a
ton in March and Apxil, an advance
from the $113S paid in January and
February as the result of a bi-monthly
settlement of the bar iron scale be-
tween the Western Bar Iron associa-
ton and the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
Chicago building contractors grant
ed the new wage scale, providing Tor
15-cent-an-hour raise, or 125 an hour,
decided upon by union carpenters after
a secret ballot. The new rate is TO be-
come effective April l, according to
notice sent to the contractors by Pres
ident Harry Jensen of the Carpenters
District council.
Notices have been posted in the
plants Of the New York and Pennsyl-
vania company in Lock Haven, Pa,
and Johnsonburg, announcing an IN
crease in wages of three cents an hour
for all male and one and 0ne-halr
cents for all females employed. This
is the second advance within four
months the paper makers have re-
ceived. There are between 800 anC
800 employees in the two mills.
The Belgian government has de-
cided to recommend to parliament rat
ification Of the second, third and
fourth resolutions adopted by the
Washington labor conference on the
employment of women and children.
The government, however, makes res
eryations similar to those of CONNER
cially competing countries on the AZ
UOuE week anu tllN ChiEiOS ~
women before and after childbirth.
The United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea have submitted to the United
States Coal commission statement In
support of their contention that the
net income of the six large anthracite
mining companies increased approx
mately 1853 per cent In 1920, over 1917,
while the output OF their mines In
creased only per cent. The entire
anthracite output was Increased ABOUT
9 per cent, and the net earnings were
S151 100000 in 1920 as against $l3,-
100000 in 1912, the miners maintain.
President Harding has Informed Off
cials of the railway shopcrafts that he
can see no adequate question OF prln-
ciple" which warrants a further delay
in settlement in all districts Of last
summers shopmen's strike. The total
number Of men still out has been
matter Of dispute, but officials OF the
International Machinists' union esti-
mated that about 40 per cent OF the
men who went on strike July l had
not returned
A strike of the Amalgamated Knit
Goods Workers union was called at
New York. l. Laderman, manager OF
the union, reported that 5000 knit
goods workers left their machines and
that 300 shops had been crippled. The
union leaders are confident that the
walkout will ultimately affect 10000
workers. The strikers demand recog-
pition of the union, the 44-hour week,
pay for six legal holidays year and
minimum wage scales to approximate
those of other workers In the needle
trades.
Seventy men employed In the car
department of the Ann Arbor shops,
Owosso, Mich, are idle, as the result
of the closing Of the department. 1t
was stated at division headquarters,
that the shutdown is indefinite, and is
caused by heavy deficit in January.
Prosperity throughout the country
is being reflected in the prosperity of
the railroads, State Senator John Ford
of New York said, in an address at
Chicago. Senator Ford compared
chaotic conditions in Europe with the
"stableness of industry and govern
ment In the United States"