Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

formulated in Elizabeth, n. J.
The highest legal minimum weekly
wage for women is said to be In the
District of Columbia, where a board
set the rate. at $16.50.
The great center Of glass manufac-
ture in Great Britain is at st. Helen's,
Lancashire, whence glass finds its way
to nearly all parts of the world.
The Wayne Knitting Mills of Fort
Wayne, Ind, will this year construct
an addition to cost 100000. The
building will be 217 feet in length by
81 feet in width.
Production capacity Of the Los An
geles plant of the Ford Motor COM
pany will be tripled by factory ex-
pansion, plans for which are complete.
it was announced.
Power belts, such as are used in
workshops for transmitting power
from a revolving shaft to a machine.
have been run at the rate of nearly
$500 feet minute.
The industrial situation at Niles, O.,
continues to improve, and but five
sheet mills of the 81 in the city are
idle. The Mahoning valley is again on
in full, eight mills resuming.
Wages in the textile industry stand
at 12O per cent increase over Janu-
ary, 1915, or at $22 week as an aver
age on all except salaried employees.
as against $500 a week seven years
ago.
The labor barometer Of the Employ
ers' Association Of Detroit shows a
net increase Of 5,214 men at work for
the week ended January 8. The total
working force of the 70 firms report.
ing is now 1925.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers has purchased substantial
interest In the Empire Trust company,
according to an announcement made
at New York by LIE Roy w. Baldwin.
president Of the company.
Employees Of the Mexico City
street railways struck, the fourth time
In less than two years. The company
claims it has more employees than 1t
can pay, and the union insists that
the company retain all employees.
The Needle Trades alliance pro-
poses to embrace in one control body
all the unions Of the sewing trades.
so as to leave freedom Of action for
each Individual union and yet have
united action for their common pro-
lection.
The strike In the Connellsville Pa)
bituminous coal region was officially
called off at a meeting Of delegates
from 81 local unions Of the United
Mine Workers. The convention voted
unanimously to accept the recommen-
dation Of the international officers
and instructed the delegates to notify
all strikers to return to work.
Two suits for $55.OOO damages
growing out Of the clothing workers
strike at Cincinnati year ago, were
filed in Superior court in that city
against the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Of America New York cor
poration. The suits were filed by Mi
chael Schaedle and Abe Weisfeld,
nonunion workers, who alleged they
were attacked by men hired by the
union.
Notice has been served on the coal
miners Of Nova Scotia by the inter
national executive board Of the United
Mine Workers of America, the labor
union now operating in most OF the
mine fields Of the United States and
Canada, that they cannot affiliate with
the "Red Internationale" labor organi.
zation Of Moscow and at the same
time remain members OF the United
Mine Workers.
James A. Patten, head Of the I'LL
nois state prison commission that has
charge of the building Of the new peni.
tentiary at Joliet, recommended to
group Of visiting state senators that
schools for the teaching Of building
trades be maintained by the state
within the prison walls.
Warren S. Stone, president OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and president of the Engineers bank
is also an officer of a coal mining COM
pany. Several mines have been In op-