Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-08
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

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In Japan even the unionists do not
observe the eight-hour day.
Fatal accidents in the British coal
mines vary from LOO to 1900 year.
During 1922, workers in Pennsyl-
,vanfa lost $2OS. POI, 1892 in wages due to
strikes.
The lace curtain industry generally
will increase wages of employees 7h
per cent.
The industry Of the nation Is now
operating at from 75 to 100 per cent Of
capacity.
One thousand cigars are made each
minute Of the working day In Phil
adelphia.
Industries in Philadelphia cover
a range of more than 300 lines Of en-
plOyment.
i The United States produces 70 per
cent of the total worlds production Of
glazed kid.
More than 1000 women in the United
States are engaged in the profession
of architecture.
| Tobacco manufacture in the United
States employs the highest percentage
of women workers.
Skilled mechanics in the Russian
locomotive works receive an average
| of $40 per month In wages.
Employees of the Allegheny Plate
Glass company, recently purchased by
| Henry Ford, will have their wages in
creased 80 per cent.
Following the refusal Of the Win
tchester-Simmons company to grant
wage increase Of 20 per cent, 800 en-
ployees Of the Walden Knife company
| at Walden, N y, went on strike.
At the Broken Hill Proprietary Steel
Works, Port Waratah. New South
Wales, which employ many thousand
men. the blast furnaces, blooming fur
naces and rolling mills have been re-
started, and 1t is expected that in
very short time the works will be In
full swing.
A total of 225,216,753 pounds of
crude rubber were used in the manu-
ifacture of automobile and motorcycle
tires In the United States during the
last six months of 1922. At the begin
ming of 1923 there were about 10000
tire workers and makers in the United
States and about 100000 tire dealers
and statesmen.
A new organization of working men
and women is in the process Of Organi-
ZatiOn at Herrin, Ill.,, with the slogan,
Boost your friends and forget your
lenemies." The organization Is encour-
aging use Of the union label, on all
commodities, and each merchant Will
be asked to announce whether he Is
for or against union labor.
The employees of the Lawrence
(Mass.) division Of the Eastern Massa-
chusetts Street Railway company, who
had been on strike, voted to notify the
public trustees of the road that they
would return to work, guaranteed a
return of the 1920 working agreement,
and would arbitrate wages, the matter
of operating jitney buSses and the col
lection Of union dues.
When business depression was felt
over the country the VOnPlaten-Fox
sawmill at Iron Mountain, Mich, was
one of the few in the upper peninsula
to keep its payroll intact. Now, how
ever, the tables are turned, the mill
having found it necessary to close down
half of the night shift because Of the
shortage of skilled labor. This condi-
tion has been brought about by the
increased activities at the Ford plant,
and in the iron mines
Wage increases to 10000 mainte-
nance Of way employees and railroad
shop employees on the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railway, effective
as Of May 1, have been granted fol-
lowing negotiations between commit
tees Of the brotherhood and the car
rier. The increase, according to A. F.
Stout vice president Of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Railroad Shop Labor.
ers, will range from l to 81 cents an
hour.
Industrial Workers of the World on
seagOing vessels and In lumber camps
along the Pacific coast went on strike,
trying to force the opening Of prison
uOOTS WHICH IeSLTdlu men serving SELL
tences for violation Of war time laws.
They made no demand for wage In
creases or better working conditions.
Between 5000 and 1000 men are re-
ported out in Washington, Oregon and
! California lumber and logging camps,
with small numbers of men idle at
ports.
OF the 572 occupations listed in the
recent census only thirty-five failed to
show the employment of women.
! The Marine Engineers Beneficial
association of New York has offered
the shipping board 100000 cash for
three 12,OOO-ton craft which 1t pro-
poses to acquire as the nucleus of
labOr-owned and labor-operated feet
, The offer was contained In a letter
|lnade public from Thomas B. Healy,
business manager OF the union, to AL
;hor< n clyor hot rpoon of tho shin