Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-10
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

over nalt the cotton workers III EHS-t
land are employed on piece rates.
The average weekly earnings Of fac
tory workers in Illinois has increased
Is per cent during the last year.
Textile workers in Montreal are be-
ing organized with a view of having a
100 per cent membership.
Four hundred members of the
GLACIERS union struck at New~ York
for a $40 a day wage scale for the
balance of the year, an increase OF 81.
A fveday, fortyhour week, with
fortyfour hours pay, has been put
into effect by a Cincinnati clothing
concern.
Thirty thousand shOpmen employed
on the New York Central railroad re-
ceived an increase of cents an hour,
retroactive to July /.
Notices were posted in the Amos
keag Manufacturing company's mills
of further curtailment in the cotton
department to four days a week.
About 10000 operatives are affected.
Notices were posted in the Pacific
Print Works at Lawrence, Mass, that
because of business conditions the
plant would operate on a four-day
week. Two thousand operatives are
affected.
A bonus of from to Is per cent
has been paid to the several thousand
employees of the Title Guarantee and
Trust company of New York. The
award is on yearly salary and accord
ing to length of service.
Although Illinois industries operated
at full speed in June, there were some
omens of future slackening, according
to the monthly report Of the general
advisory board of the state depart
ment of labor. Labor shortage virtual
ly disappeared, the number of workers
seeking jobs and the number of places
available being practically equal.
The 12-hour shift in steel, If persist
ed in, is on the whole physically and
mentally injurious to the men who
work in it. This declaration Is made
by Charles r. Walker, editor Of the
Atlantic Monthly, and author Of
"Steel: The Diary of Furnace Work
err" in the June number Of the Amer
ican Labor Legislation Review.
The shipbuilding industry Of Great
Britain is showing marked contrast
to the dullness prevailing a year ago.
The British East India company has
let contracts for sixteen Oil-burning
vessels, aggregating approximately 162,-
600 gross tons, including two steamers
Of 200 tons each. The entire fleet
will be used for the Indian mail and
freight service.
Only immediate relief from prevail
ing wage burdens and other adverse
conditions can keep the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient railway from the
junk pile, according to testimony be-
fore the railroad labor board. The
road was represented by its receiver,
w. T.. Kemper, who petitioned for
return to the rate of pay in effect prior
to May 1, 1920, for all classes of en-
ployees.
The board of directors Of the Inter
national Printing Pressmen and Assist
ants Union of North America refused
to grant a strike sanction that had been
requested by the New York Newspaper
Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 70.
At the same time the international
union, for the first time In 18 years,
put itself in the position Of underwrit-
ing an agreement between the local
union and the Publishers Association
of New York City.
The Bourne Mills at Fall River,
Mass have paid to 600 employees the
sixty-seventh semi-annual profit-shar-
ing dividend. The dividend was prac-
tically as large as the weekly payroll
Of the company. Employees shared
in the company's profits on the basis
of six months continuous employment.
dating from Dec 2, 1922, to May 26
Of this year. The bonus was about the
same as that paid during the last sew
eral years, but was less than those
during the wartime business boom.
Difficulties between the United Mine
Workers and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers growing out Of a
strike of miners at the Coal River
collieries have been settled with an
agreement to unionize the Brother
hoods mines in the Coal River dis
trict. Although the property is not
owned by the brotherhood, the mine is
being operated by its officials.
A temporary injunction restraining
all activities Of the Industrial Workers
of the World in California was grant
ed by Superior Judge Charles 0.
Ruaink