Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-03
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Stock in the Electric Storage Bat
tery company is being offered to en-
ployees on a basis Of one share for
each $500 of annual salary.
Under the law in Colorado 1t Is H.
legal to strike unless the commission
has thirty days to consider the de-
mand.
st. Louis union plasterers announced
they had won their fight for $14 for
the elght-hour day. This Is said to
be the highest wage paid these crafts
men In the United States.
The Michigan Iron and Chemical
company, located at Boyne City, Mich,
resumed operations the first part OF
July. The shutdown several months
ago was caused by a shortage OF Kiln
wood.
The annual report Of the Austrian
Federation Of Trade Unions for 1922
shows that In spite Of the serious
crisis which set in during the last
quarter, there was an increase OF
| 1875 full members.
A levy on capital for redemption OF
the war debt was reaffirmed as one OF
the chief planks in the platform OF
British labor by Sidney Webb, pre-
siding over the twenty-third annual
conference of the Labor party.
Twenty thousand more Industrial ac-
cidents were reported to the Pennsyl-
vania workmen's compensation bureau
for the first four months Of 1923 than
for the~corresponding period OF 1922.
General stagnation Is the keynote
Of the British shipbuilding trade, says
| the monthly bulletin Of the American
Chamber of Commerce in London,
which points out the apprehensions
caused by the emigration of numerous
| Clyde artisans and continuance OF
the boilermakers' lockout.
Suit for $4,000 damages alleging
conspiracy to keep him out Of employ
ment was filed In District court at
Omaha by Sylvanus L. Merica OF.
Omaha against local union No. 571 OF
the hoisting and portable engineers
| four of its officers and the Interna-
tional Union of Steam and Operating
Engineers with which the local is
affiliated.
New wage scales computed upon
rates prevailing in similar lines OF
commercial work were announced by
the Navy department While the rate
for every trade varied as between
yards, there was general increase OF
10 per cent for the helper and artisan
group 12 per cent for the lower
grades Of clerical, technical and draft
ing groups, and about 10 per cent for
the higher grades Of these same trades.
Leaders Of farm and labor bodies
meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, formed
temporary organization to establish
a farmer-labor bank to be located In
Des Moines and opened for deposits
| of workers about September /. Stock
holders In the bank must be either
farmers or members Of trade union.
The bank Is to be conducted after the
plan Of similar institutions In Cleve-
land and other cities.
Organization of loggers, lumbermen
and timber owners Of Washington,
Oregon and California to fight the l.
w. w. and other similar movements
has been perfected, 1t was announced.
More than 100 men from three states
participated in the organization, 1t was
disclosed by Hugh Mcintosh Of Seattle,
general manager of the new organiza-
ton, which Is to be called the North.
west Logging Operators association.
The year 1922 saw tremendous
growth in Chinese labor unions. The
success of the Chinese Seamen's union
in Hongkong and the successful ter
mination Of the strike gave impetus
to the unioniZation movement In
Shanghai and elsewhere.
The public health service was direct
ed under an executive order of Presi-
dent Harding to make physical ex-
aminations among federal workers and
applicants when requested by the civil
service commission, with the view to
promoting health and efficiency and
uninimiEin9 accid0nta-