Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-03
OTHER LABOR NEWS

ing nearly 10000 hands.
In Georgia, the son Of a widowed
mother, solely dependent upon him,
may work after becoming twelve years
of age.
Hongkong Chinese labor associations
have proposed to establish bank cor
poration which will receive the savings
of and make loans to laborers.
More than 10000 persons are en-
ployed In the United States Treasury
department, 10000 Of them being scat
tered throughout the United States.
The United States Steel corporation
will offer to Its employees the privi-
leges Of subscribing to the common
stock Of the company at $107 per
share
Following conference Of the gen.
eral manager of the Besco Coal Mines
lin Cape Breton and committee Of the,
United Mine Workers Of America, the
Cape Breton coal strike was called off.
A Norwegian ship recently arrived
iat Baltimore with five woman "sea-
men" on board. This is the first In
stance Of freight ship arriving In this
country having women numbered
among it's crew.
Premier Mussolini's policy of re-
,trenchment and economy was dras-
ltically continued when 2,464 Italian
railroad men were dismissed. Some
had reached the age limit and some
were adjudged inefficient.
An agreement between the Brother
hood Of Maintenance of Way en-
Iployees and the Wabash system was
effected, whereby approximately $500
workers received increases ranging
from one-half to nine cents an hour.
Collapse Of the latest boom reduced
the total pay Of the wage and salary
earners Of the United States 1920
1000, 900, according to figures made pub
ilic by the National Bureau Of Economic
Research. From the year Of prosper
Iity to the year Of depression annual
pay rolls shrank from $39,888, 100000
to s32,59e,O 100000.
A wage increase of 8 cents an hour
to motormen and conductors on the
Rochester, Syracuse and Utica lines Of
the New York State railways has been
granted, according to announcement
.of James F. Hamilton, president Of the
company. This represents q 10 per
cent increase over the present maxi
mum scale Of 30 cents an hour.
In a brief address before the
Maine branch Of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, Gov. F. Baxter said the
question Of the proposed 48-hour week
for women and children was not an
executive question, nor a legislative
question, but one initiated by the peo-
pie and going back to the people for
their decision.
! Committees Of the Decatur (Ill.)
Trades and Labor assembly have be-
gun work In preparation for the an
ual convention Of the Illinois State
Federation Of Labor, to be held there
September 1913. Preceding the fed
Grafton gathering, meetings Of the Hi
nois Council Of Carpenters, the Illinois
Painters and the state Farmer-Labor
party will be held.
! Chicago painters working under the
Lands building trades award will re-
lceive new wage scales ranging from
1875 cents to $1.25 an hour, depending
on ability, 1t was announced. The
wage scale was fixed at meeting Of
the Lands Award Painting Con-
tractors, and established the 1923-24
hn 1oo rf U0pnn
shop" trades to be dealt with.
Increases in wages affecting 1900
Milwaukee Northwestern road main
ltenance-of-way employees will be
granted to $4,000 workers, according
to advices received from Chicago. The
boost will vary from to cents per
hour. The increase Is a result Of ne
gotiations between the United Brother
lhood Of Maintenance-of-Wa EN-
,ployees and the Northwestern roat
Stockholders and employees Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company both
have benefited since the eight-hour
day was inaugurated by the company
five years ago, IT Is stated in letter
from its president, J. r. Welborn,
made public by the New York Federal
Council Of Churches, which has taken
exception to the Iron and Steel Insti-
tute's recent report unfavorable to
elimination Of the 12-hour day in the
steel industry.
John Mcfarland, president of the
international Typographical union and
we'll known In trade union circles
throughout the English-speaking world,
died at Indianapolis June 16.
The American Association for Labor
Legislation, in statement, declared
that the recent abolition Of the 12-hour
shift in the open hearth departments
of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
company and the Republic Iron and
Steel company serves as additional