Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The American miner gets out $500
pounds of coal in day.
Norway imports about 10000 tons
Of sugar each year. This used TO
come from Germany, but now most of
1t comes from the United States
d Fire at the plant of Armour & Com
pany In South Omaha caused a loss
estimated near $2,00O,000.s and threw
more than thousand men out of
work.
Coal mines in Great Britain en-
plOy about one million men, or ap-
proximately one-third more than the
number employed in the United
States
A move to secure the controlling in
terest of Kansas City bank, to be
operated for the benefit of organized
labor, has been begun by the Central
Labor union.
From the Canadian minister of la
Dor it was ELECTED that Ontario's un-
employed number 1O,O41, the largest
class being laborers, 1900, and the
smallest being farm hands, so.
Clerks OF the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad are to receive
two-cent an hour pay increase, effective
March l, 1t was decided at a meeting
Of general and division superintend-
ents Of lines east of the Mississippi
river.
What is said to be q worlds record
run Of coal for q single day shift
was made at the United States Coal
and Coke cOmpany's mine, Lynch, KY,
with an output OF 1880 tOns-the
equivalent of 256 50-ton cars.
In Germany at the present time the
average hourly wage Of a worker over
twenty-one years of age will pur-
chase one pound of bread or one quart
of milk. To earn a 25-pound bag Of
-four requires 40 hours of labor.
Germany has beaten its pre-war
shipbuilding record according TO fig
ures published. It's output In 1922
was 625,OO0 tons, as compared with
100000 tons in 1921, 100000 tons In
1914, and $4,000 tons In 1913.
The railways Of New Zealand re-
quire 100000 long tons of coal per
annum, the largest shipping interests
, 100000 tons, industrial works about !,
100000 tons, gas works 100000 tons, |
and steam-driven electric plants con-
sumo only $4,000 tons, owing TO hydro
electric development.
The terminal committee of the st.
Louis chamber Of commerce reported /
that 26 trunk lines entering st. Louis
had S16,000,OO0 for use In reorganiz-
ing the local terminals. The object
would be to expedite freight and
passenger service in and out of the
st. Louis district, 1t was explained.
Settlement of the million-dollar suit
brought In Federal court at Charles
ton, w. Va, by the Willis Branch Coal
company against the United Mine
Workers, was for sum enough to
cover the damage to the town of Willis
Branch" J. w. Maxwell Of Beckley,
attorney for the plaintiff, declared. Mr..
Maxwell refused, however, to give the
settlement figure.
The right of strikers to picket an
open shop is denied and the right Of
q small manufacturer TO maintain an
open shop Is recognized In an opin-
ion handed down by the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme
court which issued an injunction re-
straining the International Ladies'
Garment Workers union and its Off
GERS from picketing or otherwise In
terfering with the business Of Altman
Lehman, manufacturers Of gar
ments.
One hundred thousand more men
were employed In Detroit factories in
December than the previous year, re-
ports the Employers association Of
Detroit The increase is even greater
compared with December, 1920.
Overwhelming defeat of the proposed
two-year agreement submitted to the
Shoe Workers Protective union of
Haverhill, Mass. by the Shoe Manu-
facturers' association was the result
Of voting by the union membership.
Provision In the agreement for Satur-
day forenoon work was given as tha
reason for itS defeat