Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-10
OTHER LABOR NOTES

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The number Of woolen mills In the
United States exceeds 1000.
Ninety per csut Of the textile mills
in Germany are working on part time.
The energy output Of the 41,OO0.OO0
wage-earners 10 the United States is
a little over 100000 horsepower.
Bleach and dye workers in Worces-
ter, Mass, have been granted 8 per
cent wage increase.
A Swedish railroad has found the
use Of peat 80 practical that 1t is
planning to abandon coal.
In 1920 there were 8,641 more wom-
On and $40 more neu working as tele-
graph operators than II 1910.
Tobacco, cigars and cigarette manu-
featuring Embellishments In the United
States now number more than 1900.
A large soap firm IN England fur
nishes music and motion pictures tor
the comfort Of their employees during
their lunch period.
With an aggregate investment OF
more than s400O00,O00. the paper and
pulp industry Of Canada employs 3D.
600 persons.
The deepest well In ths world Is In
Upper Silesia. Germany. It is Ola
mond drill hole, 1850 feet deep, In a
coal field.
In Queensland, Australia, the arbi-
tration court ruled that colored labor
is not to be employed In the sugar
fields II white labor is available.
Union carpenters Of Youngstown
(Ohio), at the meeting Of the local
union Of carpenters and joiners, voted
to donate their services In building
branch public library in Central square.
The New York printers school foa
apprentices. supported Jointly by the
typographical union and the employing
printers. has been In successful opera
ton for Ave yeara
The plant Of the Dwight Manufac-
turing company, cotton goods manu-
facturers. Chicopee, Mass, closed for
q week. Poor business conditions was
the reason given.
Increases In the wages Of deck ana
engineer officers, radio operators and
members Of the stewards department
on shipping board vessels ranging from
81 to $40 a month are announced to
take effect Immediately.
Rioting among striking steel work
ers at the plant Of the British Empire
Steel corporation. Sydney, N. g.,
reached proportions that police were
unable to control. Troops were brought
from Halifax.
Plans are being perfected by the In
dustrial Workers Of the World on the
Pacific coast and In the Pacific North
west for another strike within the next
few weeks, especial attention being
paid to the harvest fields, 1t was stated
by 8. Healey, spokesman for the tim,
Der workers section Of the /. w. w.
The ouadrennial conference Of the
Free Methodist Church Of North.
America, in session at Corunna, Mich.
for two weeks. adjourned after adopt,
ing numerous revisions to the church,
discipline, including one barring mem,
bers Of the church from membership
in labor unions.
Work on the Canadian governments
huge new dry dock at Victoria. B. O..
is being held up by strike among ex-
pert mechanics employed OF the prof.
oct. Adjustments Of wages as desired
by the workmen has been made. but
settlement of the strike has been
blocked by the insistence Of the strik-
ers that all men be taken back when
work resumes.
Poverty Is the chief reason why bOO,-
600 people in this country each year
are unable to obtain legal justice. John
s. Bradway Of Philadelphia told a
convention Of social workers in Wash
ington. The speaker Is secretary OF
the national alliance Of legal aid soci-
eties. "These people are left outside
the law" Mr.. Broadway said. "They
cannot be expected to be loyal citi-
zens unless we can overcome this
abuse"
Purchase by the Illinois Mine Work
ers' union Of the Lester strip mine
at Herrin, ILL.,, the scene Of the riot
of last June, in which 22 lives were
lost, was confirmed by labor union Off
cials. The purchase price was $685.
OOO The property was bought, it is
understood, to satisfy the heavy dam
age suits which w. J. Lester. principal
owner. fled against the miners union
to recover for damages to his prop
erty and the death Of the men en-
ployed by him at the time Of the riots
A bill to limit women's working
hours to eight day and forty eight
a week was defeated in the Pennsyl.
vania legislature.
Wage increases, effective July 1, for
members of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
way and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers, Express and Station EN-
ployees on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road were agreed upon following con-
ferences between representatives of
the carrier and the union. Clerks are
to receive boost Of 10 cents a day
and other groups from to 2A cents
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