Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-25
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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employs about $1,000 people.
Colorado produced 832,092 more
tons Of coal In 1922 than in 1921.
Wages of plasterers In Buffalo have
been advanced from $40 to $12 a day.
Building operations during the last
year were 26 per cent above the pre-
war normal.
In France there are only about
10000 unemployed registered with the
government labor Office.
An effort is being made to establish
cooperative union laundries in Wheel
ing, W. Va, and Los Angeles Cal.
German Industrial plants absorbed
55,04S 100000 marks in 1922 in COM
parison with 21,745, 100000 marks dur
ing 1921.
The metal miners at Leadville, Col,
have organized and affiliated with the
International Union Of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers.
Notices of wage increases, effective
April 80, were given at the factories
Of the American Thread company, the
Holland Silk company and the Wind
ham Silk company, Willimantic, Conn
Through the Intervention Of the
British ministry of labor, the national
builders strike was averted. The en-
ployers and men met and agreed to
submit the questions at issue to ar
bitration.
The most reliable harbinger Of uni
versal prosperity, an acute labor
shortage, faces Cleveland for the first
time in six years, according to figures
furnished by B. G. Seiple, superintend-
ent of the StateCity Employment bu-
reau here.
Progress toward realization OF
labor's dream of a f1ve-day week was
reported at the meeting of the Chi
cago Federation Of Labor, when del
egate from the sign painters union
announced that his organization had
made an agreement with employers
making Saturday holiday.
Arrangements are being made to or
ganize workers clubs throughout the
city Of New York to inculcate the use
Of union label products. The step was
decided upon at meeting of the Cen
trail Union Label council More than
18O officers of national and interna-
tional unions are said to have par
ticipated In the conference.
Unemployment insurance was advo-
Gated by Prof. Gilbert Jackson during
an address to the Workers Educa-
tional association at Toronto, Canada
Professor Jackson also thought that
q plan under which government-saved
revenue during years Of prosperity
be applied for the relief Of unemploy-
ment during the time Of depression
would be advisable.
Wage increases of approximately 13
per cent, affecting about 1900 en-
ployees, were announced by officials
Of the Central Iron and Steel company
and the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe
Bending company. The increases,
which followed similar action by the
Bethlehem Steel corporation and the
United States Steel corporation, be-
came effective April 10.
The electricians strike in Washing
ton ended. One hundred and twenty
five union electrical workers, who
have been out Of work since April 2,
made arrangements to resume under
the old agreement, pending the settle
ment by the National Council on In
dustrial Relations of the electrical in
dustry of the dispute regarding a
wage of $40 per day, for which the
employees went on strike.
Youngstown (Ohio) payrolls in
March were $5,968,344, according to
figures compiled by the banks, the
amount being $132,591 lower than for
February. The pay rolls, however,
compare with $3.50 ,422 last March
and $780, 2,548 in March, 1921
The three big strikes of the last
year-textile, coal and rail-have left
American labor organizations more
closely knitted together than ever be-
fore, James III. Maurer, president Of
the workers education bureau, said at
the third annual convention Of the or
eanixation.