Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-20
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

More than 100000 people in Great
Britain are now unemployed
Labor unions in the Province of On
tario increased the membership more
than 5000 during January.
Over 100000 children, ten to fif-
teen years of age, were reported by
the 1920 census as gainfully employed,
379, ,063 being less than fourteen years
of age.
Fourteen per cent of the wage-earn-
ers in the clothing industry are en-
ployed in New York, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Rochester, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati and Boston.
The Brotherhood Saving and Trust
company, with a capital and surplus OF
$137 800, stockholders Of which are To-
cal labor unions and their members,
Pittsburgh on May l.
Eleven Of the twenty laborers en-
plOyed in the filtration house of the
Cincinnati waterwOrks went on strike
because of refusal Of the city admin
istration to advance their wages from
So to 1915 a day.
In England during 1922 some 49,
$4,000 days were lost in the course
Of $50 labor disputes, involving 552,-
600 workpeople. The engineering and
shipbuilding industries were respOn-
sible for more than 100000 Of these
lost days.
The strike on the United Traction
company's lines, Albany, N. Y, is vir-
tually at an end. Normal service has
been resumed. A majority of the men
who struck for higher wages and rec
ognition of the union, have returned
to work.
The United Traction company and
the Hudson Valley railway, Troy, N.
Y. granted Increases Of five cents an
hour to it's operators, motOrmen and
conductors, it was announced. Opera
tors, as one-man car men are known,
will receive So cents an hour and con-
ductors and motormen so cents.
An amended decision by the United
States railroad labor board suspending
for a minimum period Of 60 days its
order of March q, that the New York
Central railroad Immediately abolish
its piecework system Of payment affect
ing about 10000 shop craft employees,
was made public.
The port Of Barcelona, Spain, is COM
pletely tied up In consequence OF the
strike Of the transport workers. 1t
is said the employers will declare
lockout against the strikers unless they
return to work. If they should carry
out their threat a general strike Is
probable.
The progressive international CON-
mittee of the United Mine Workers,
whose object is to compel the union
to stand for the naturalization of the
coal industry, the five-day week and
the siX-hOur day, completed its organi-
zation at a convention held at Pitts
burgh on the call of Thomas Myers
cough, its secretary and treasurer
While there is shortage of labor
In the Monongahela valley the Home
stead and DuQuesne works Of the Car
full. All Of the mills in the big
plants, where $1,000 men are en-
ployed, are operating day and night.
Merchant blast furnace owners expect
to close some large contracts for third
quarter delivery.
Trade uniOnism in Great Britain is
passing through anxious times. The
membership during the last two years
has decreased more than 100000 and
the accumulated funds, which had
reached nearly $3OOOOO,OOO, have been
exhausted by the heavy drain of unem-
ployment benefits. The statement Of
the general council is that there are
15,5OO,OOO wage earners In Great |
Britain, Of whom only 6,50O,0OO are |
of trade unions.
Wabash shopmen of the entire
Wabash system have made a formal |
request for increased pay, Jesse Dun
can, system president of the Wabash |
Shop Employees association, said. |
The increase is not stipulated, but it
Is asked that the Wabash do as some |
other roads have done-increase the |
shOpmen at least three cents an hour.
Public health department nurses
meeting to discuss movement for
salary raises were appealed to by
Miss Margaret Haley of the Chicago
Teachers federation to join the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor.