Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

hiuB " CuTldll operations.
Under the law In New South Wales
an arbitration court sets wages.
South Carolina limits the working
hours to 65 among mill workers.
The unemployed in the United
States numbered 100000 in 1922.
More than 7O,0O0.OOO briar pipes are
manufactured annually In France.
AT present, wages absorb about rs
per cent Of the sales prices Of arti-
cles.
More than 10000 persons are en-
gagged In the paper pulp industry in
Canada.
MotOrcar production In the United
States during 1922 totaled 2527,OOO
vehicles.
Scarcity Of female workers exists in
many Philadelphia manufacturing es-
Establishments.
Georgia lumber mills have enough
orders on hand to keep them busy
for the next eight months.
In st. Louis, Mo-, the building trades
council has launched a statewide
movement for state compensation in
surance law.
The. Swedish textile industry Is op-
Grating at about 81 per cent normal
capacity, while the iron and steel In
dustry Is stagnant
Eight hundred and fifty new employ
ees were added to the staff Of the
Chicago post office with the beginning
of the fiscal year July 1.
Women wage earners In the United
States now number more than $780,
600. One In every four workers is q
woman, and one In every five women
Is at work.
An order issued recently sustains
the S16 minimum wage scale for wom-
en- In the California mercantile indus.
tries. Nearly 10000 women are af-
fected by the decision.
A squadron Of mounted police and
several hundred strikers belonging to
communist unions came into collision
at Buenos Aires. One policeman and
score Of strikers were wounded
The Brotherhoods' Cooperative Ma
LlOndl Udlh DCCu VI IkdulZcu at SpO-
kane, WASH the first strictly labor
bank in the Pacific Northwest 1t Is
capitalized at 100000, of which $4O,-
600 Is paid up. ~
Two old employees Of the J. & B.
Coates, Inc, thread mill, Pawtucket,
r. l., dropped dead at their work
They were James Dommell, seventy
years old, who had been in the en-
ploy of the company for 40 years, and
Edward Connolly, sixty-eight, whose
service dates back 88 years.
A petition was filed with the Rail-
road Labor board by the clerks broth
erhood for increases ranging from 8 to
IA cents an hour for certain members
Of that organization employed on the
Kansas City Terminal railway the
Kansas City Southern railway and its
subsidiary, the Texarkana & Fort
Smith railway.
Cotton spinning activity in May was
the second highest of any month in
the history Of the industry, having
been exceeded only by March this
year, the census bureaus monthly re-
port shows. Cotton growing states
made new record In spinning activ-
ity, having exceeded the March record
by almost 100000 active spindle
hours.
Effected through a conciliatory con-
ference. the differepces Of several
years standing between John J. Lewis.
head Of the United Mine Workers of
America and Frank harrington of the
Illinois Mine Workers have been ironed
out, President Samuel Gompers Of the
American Federation of Labor said.
"The new accord between these lead
ers places them marching together
against the enemies of the miners"
he asserted.
Fifteen trade unionists graduated
from the Brooklyn Workers college
at exercises at Katonah, N. Y. They
constitute the first class to complete
the two-year course Of the school In
social science and labor organization
policies and technique. All are men,
bers Of trade unions under whose
auspices the school Is conducted, all
left work In shops to enter the school,
and will return to shop work and ac-
tive participation in the activities of
the union organizations following
their graduation.
A majority of the labor unions of
Buenos Aires declared strike be-
cause of the shooting Of Kurt Wick
ems, German antimilltarist. to avenge
the death Of an Argentine army officer
the Germans killed last January.
British railroad wages declined two
shillings go cents) as a result of
fall in the cost Of living. The sliding
scale agreement provides q shill-
ing reduction for every five its In
living costs. The average retail price
index on June / was SO per cent higher