Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-02
OTHER LABOR NOTES

tile mills of the United States.
The state Supreme court of North
Carolina has ruled that a bonus should
be considered as wages, and not as a
gift.
During November, 1922, construction
contracts awarded In Canada amounted
to $21, ,453, 800, as compared with $751;
639,800 for November, 1921.
The United States census bureau re-
ports that the average wage last year
for 1916 workers In the leather glove
and mitten industry was $14.8O week.
The board of governors Of the Inter
national Allied Printing Trades asso-
citation adopted a resolution indorsing
the American Federation of Labor's
stand against the ship subsidy bill.
The average weekly earnings Of fac
tory workers in New York state In De-
cember were $26.39, according to In
dustrial Commissioner Henry D. Sayer.
This was a gain of 35 cents over No
vember and a gain of $1.48 since De
cember of 1921.
The authorities are Investigating q
fire Of mysterious origin which de-
stroyed the tipple of the Sullivan
Brothers Coal company at Carlos
near Frostburg, Nd, entailing loss
of $1,000 and throwing nearly 100
men out Of work.
The shopmen's strike last summer
cost the Missouri Pacific railroad 81
100000 in direct expenses, and neces-
STATED the purchase of Is new loco
motives costing $3,0OO,OOO q. O. Wells,
assistant general manager, testified at
hearing at st. Louis.
Ninety members of the Associated
Marine Workers, employed on the 10
tug boats of the Newtown Creek Tow
ing company, New York, went on
strike. The Marine Workers have
1900 members on 400 boats. The New
town Greek company refused to grant
the workers an increase Of $15
month.
Extensive improvements costing ST.
600, 1000 are to be made at once at the
New Castle (Pa.) works Of the Car
negie Steel company, it was announced
by George A. Rigby, general superin-
tendent of the plant. The money has
been appropriated. Many of the I'M
provements are to be completed by
summer.
General Manager G. l.. Bardo Of the
New Haven and Central New England
railroads announced that as soon as
details could be worked out the 7,OOO
employees In the mechanical and cleo
trical transmission and commun1ca-
tion departments, together with their
dependents, would be protected under
huge group policy involving nearly
100000 Of life insurance.
With spring navigation on the Great
Lakes scheduled to open about April
1, X. B. Nolan, international secretary
Of the Seamen's union, announced that
the sailors strike for an eight-hour
day on boats controlled by the Lake
Carriers association has practically
been called off. "We intend to take
| up the strike matter again before nav
| igation opens this spring." said Nolan.
Organized cloakmakers In New York
city have perfected a system OF reller
for their unemployed members. The
plan provides for the abolition OF all
overtime, every effort to place as
many workers as possible in the shops
under all circumstances" and to levy
a 3 per cent assessment for the benefit
Of those who have been left entirely
without Jobs and are in destitute con-
dition.
The 1obless In Sweden will here
after be helped to find new JOBS
through employment bureaus which
charge no fees, or they may benefit
from q new system Of unemployment
insurance, both the insurance and the
job-finding being helped along by ap'
propriations from the state govern
ment, If the recommendations made by
the social insurance commission at
| Stockholm are accepted.
CASTOR county, N. O., with Its loo
cotton mills, is one Of the largest tex
| tile centers in the country, and It's
| ldUOr dlC LCSuluCN 90 wa
ical Of the state. The mill owners de-
clare that the employment Of children
under fourteen years Of age has been
almost entirely wiped out In the last
few years. and they say that, apart
from the humanitarian and educa-
tional and citizenship phases, 1t Is un-
sound business to employ boys and
girls of twelve to fourteen years.
At least 10 persons were killed and
more than so wounded in clash be
tween federal soldiers and striking
street car workers, in front Of the labor
headquarters at Mexico City few
days ago.
That more than 125,OOO work
men are still out of employment If
the condition indicated by the receni
national employment census conducted
by the Americanism commission or the
American Legion, Garland W. Powell
national director of the commission
stated In an address to meeting o1