Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-31
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The strike of the dock workers in
London (England continued, but the
men at Hull voted to resume work.
The funds of British unions have
fallen from 1854 ,266 to f94,3 1896 and the
annual revenue from GS5, ,45O to f64, 1888.
The present rate of pay of chauf-
feurs, drivers and express handlers in
the clothing industry In New York
ranges from $43 to $40 per week.
Edwin Thomas, seventy-eight, one Of
the pioneer members Of the United
Mine Workers of America and a vet
eran Of the Civil war, is dead at his
home near Carbon Hill, Ohio.
One veteran worker in a lace fac
tory in Nottingham, England, has a.
record of having made more than
100000 pairs of lace curtains during.
his forty-fve years Of service.
With the selection Of Judge Harry
J. Dingeman, presiding judge of the.
Michigan Circuit court as the third
member of an arbitration board, 1t Is
understood that the danger Of a strike
by platform men of the Detroit Street
railways is ended.
M. Bocochevski, minister Of public
works in Bulgaria, has approved a plan
for new regulations in working hours
to apply to mechanics and workers In
the small trades. 1t fixes the NUMBER
of working hours at not more than ten
hours a day, or 60 hours week, ana
for women and children not more than
eight hours a day.
Judge f. Landerson, in the District
court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has mod1-
fed the injunction obtained by the Hol-
and Furnace company against its strlK-
ing molder employees. The court ruled
that the strikers might present their
side to the employees elsewhere than
on the company's property. The ban
on picketing was upheld.
Wage increases Of two cents an hour
10 various classes Of employees on the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha railway-machinists boiler
makers, blacksmiths, sheet metal work.
ers, electrical workers, car men, their
apprentices and helpers, and car clean
ers-haye been awarded, which thus
has added about $121, 900 annually to
its payroll.
Approximately 5000 employees OF
the Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet
company mills in Yonkers, N. T..
shared In the distribution of bonus
of 100000 under the company's plan
of rewarding efficient and falthfui
services. Alexander Smith Cochran,
president Of the company, estabnsheo
the plan of semi-annual dfstributlons
in 1911. About 100000 has been
paid out.
Between 1000 and 1900 BARRIERS OF
the Brownsville and East New YORK
sections Of Brooklyn, and the Wood
haven district in Queens, victorious In
their battle with the bosses, returned
to work with an increase of 50 week
on their pay checks and the changes
in working hours they demanded. Jour-
neymen BARRIERS now get $40 week
| instead of $35. Their hours are from
s a. m. to p. M, Saturday, until S:3O
| o. M and Sundays from z :SO a. m. un-
| til noon.
Midinettes in Berlin have ceased
work as a protest against the rejection
of their demands for an increase n
wages approximately 12O per cent.
There are in the United States
1900 600 civilian employees OF the fed
eraI, state, county and municipal gov
ernments. Their annual salaries ag'
gregate $3OOO,0OO,OOO.
Waterford, Ireland, was completely
isolated from the sea as result OF
the strike Of port workers. Foodstufs
to the value of 100000 were lying IL
the harbor sheds and could not be de-
aivered.