Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-01-19
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

rated milk.
1t was indicated that union painters
in Chicago would ask $1.25 an hour In
any new contracts they make.
In the early days Of the American
petroleum industry, crude oil sold at
the well at the rate Of 50 cents bar
rel of 40 gallons.
According to the latest official fig
ures the average wage for the hired
hand" on the farm is $28.97 month,
with board and lodging.
The Oliver Mining company has
asked for bids for the construction of
q new town on the Iron range near
Chisholm, MINI. The buildings in
volved will cost about 100000.
Adrian (Niich.) officials Of the New
York Central railway have received no
tice that the present capacity of the
car repair department in the Adrian
yards will be tripled and that about
$4,000 will be expended to make the
change.
The Students Federation of Mexico
OCNluCu W lOuAo q AoDoACio
versity with the support of the min
lister of public instruction. The facul-
ty, which will include members of the
Society of Biology and Related
Sciences, will serve gratis.
Thomas A. Hanson, secretary-treas-
urer of the International Seamens
union and for nearly fifty years ia
miliar figure along the lake front,
died at his home in Chicago. He had
suffered a nervous breakdown sew
eral weeks ago from overwork.
The strike of the Swiss printers was
called off after having been in effect
nearly four weeks. None of the essen
tial points contended for by the strik-
ers has been conceded, according to
the employers. Seventy-hve per cent
of the workers will be re-employed, it
is stated.
A deficiency estimate of $2,756,OO0
for the Department of Justice for the
current fiscal year was transmitted to
congress by President Harding. The
total includes approximately $1,725,OO0
for salaries and expenses of deputies
and others employed during the recent
strikes.
The federal government made net
reduction Of 514 In the number of en-
ployees in Washington during Novem-
ber according to the monthly report
Of the Civil Service commission. This
left 6S,O3O civilian employees in the
executive civil service in Washington
on November 80.
The strike Of the dock workers was
settled at a conference between rep
resentatives of the men and the gen
eral manager of the Mexican railway
and the Vera Cruz terminal. The
workers went back to their jobs under
an agreement providing % per cent
wage increase for period of three
months.
Raw materials become more valu-
able as they 60 through manufactur-
ing processes. The value of pig iron
is doubled when it becomes steel.
When made into piano wire it is worth
$4,000 a ton; as hairsprings for
watches it's value is $5OO,OOO ton,
and as fine surgical instruments 1t is
worth something like $2,5OO,OOO.
A wage increase Of So a week was
granted to the $500 union teamsters
and chauffeurs Of Chicago The In
crease is the result of negotiations be-
tween Representatives Of the two Chi
cago locals of teamsterS and chauf-
feurs and Ezra Warner, who acted as
arbiter for the union men and the
two employers associations.
The Federal Department of Labor is
to be asked to assist in handling the
labor problem at Astoria, Ore, during
the reconstruction period when it is
expected that from 5000 to 10000
workmen will be employed in rebuild
ing the area destroyed by the recent
fire. The department will be request
ed to establish a United States en-
ployment and labor bureau In the city.
The New England conference board
of textile workers voted to go on rec
ord as in favor of action looking toward
the restoration to New England textile
workers Of the wage scale in effect
prior to the 221 per cent cut of De-
cember, 1920. The delegates voted to
place the question in the hands Of the
general officers Of the United Textile
Workers of America, with the recon-
mendation that action be taken at an
opportune time.
Owing to the industrial depression
and unemployment in Denmark, an
unorganized emigration plan has been
worked out by the government with
Nicaragua and Colombia under which
these countries will accept Danish
immigrants and give them assistance
In settling.
Last year British railways carried
2Oo,OOO.OO0 fewer passengers than in
the previous year.
A feature of the general elections in
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