Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-23
OTHER NEWS OF LABOR


ice announced an increase of 3.o per
cent in numbers employed as COM
pared with April for the 1,42S firms
covered by it's survey. The decreases
were confined to a limited group OF
workers and we're relatively unimpor-
tant.
The French labor ministry Is arbi-
trating the strike of the millinery
workers in Paris, which was called
after the workers had rejected COM
promise offer by the employers OF
Is per cent wage increase. The work
ers demand the higher wages asked
for last spring.
To meet labor shortage and compe-
tition created by American dress pro-
duction in France, French dressmakers
are turning to Italy and Belgium for
workers. 1t is reported that COM
bine of American retailers is planning
to own and operate their own dress
manufacturing organization In France.
Sheet metal workers now take
position alongside lathers and plaster
ers in the high Salaried class of build
ing mechanics. An acute shortage In
the Chicago district has placed sheet
metal workers weekly pay envelopes
in the $125 to $3.50 class. Helpers in
the trade receive as high as $65 and
$40 a week. One helper received SAT
at the trade after school hours.
Employees of the Great Northern
| railway may become stockholders
through purchase of preferred capital
stock on a partial payment plan an
nounced by President Ralph Budd.
Employees may purchase up to twen-
| ty-f1ve shares each and payment may
| be made in monthly installments as
small as SO share. This twenty-five
share contract may be repeated as
| often as desired. Par value of the
stock Is 500, and at present yields
a dividend Of SIS annually.
Wage reductions are reported at
| few coal mines along the Monongahela
river in Pennsylvania near territory
where Cleveland interests operate
mines. A dispatch from Uniontown,
| Pa, stated that the wage revision In
the nonunion section was not general
and that no change in wage scales
was contemplated by Connellsville
bituminous operators. A New Lexing-
ton co. dispatch said the Ohio Col
lieries company In the Hooking field
had sent notices to men in several
villages stating that 1t was unable to
say when resumption Of work would
start. Mine shutdowns recently have
left 800 miners out Of employment.
Several manufacturing plants are CIV
ing work to miners.
The Michigan public utilities COM
mission issued an order requiring all
railroad companies operating in Mich
igan to equip locomotives and tenders
with storm curtains and tank covers,
in accordance with the 1921 cab cur
tain law. The order prescribes that
the roads install additional side cur
tains to. extend back to the leg Of the
tender, except in the case Of locomo-
tives operating south of the Muske-
gon-Bay City line. Locomotives Oper-
ating south Of the straits need not be
equipped with housing over the coal
tender. The order requires that roads
operating north Of the straits equip
all their cabs in accordance with the
order by December 1, 1924. South OF
the straits the roads shall equip 30
per cent by December this year and all
by December, 1924.
The Southeastern Railways COM
pany informed the United States rail-
road labor board Of voluntary In
creases granted on its lines. The
raises involved 1872 skilled trades me-
chanicss helpers and apprentices and
amounted to $1,000 annually on the
Tennessee Central railway; 400 metal
craftsmen, carmen, helpers and ap-
prentices of the Norfolk Southern
railway, who will get $4,000 more an
nually and 10 workers of various
trades on the Columbus and Green
vile railroad, who will draw 5000