Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-04-20
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The locomotive and car building
shops in Germany now employ about
1000 men.
The Pennsylvania railroad system
will place in service this year new
equipment costing more than $57,-
100000
January production of motorcars in
the United States established new
record for the industry, total Of
243,0O0 being produced.
During the last three months of
1922 English mines produced 67,75O,-
600 tons of coal, an amount which
has not been eQualed since 1913.
The claim that Bolshevism is form
Of tyranny gets boost in the report
that Lenin has written a work In 19
volumes to be published by the gov
eminent.
The walkout Of a thousand women
in an Italian lamp factory, the first
strike Of the Mussolini regime, caused
rigorous measures on the part of the
government
The Illinois Electric Power com
pany, a subsidiary Of the Common
wealth Power corporation, will soon
begin on the Illinois river, near Peoria,
a generating station to cost $4,25O,OOO
Kansas was one of the earliest states
to adopt child labor legislation of the
most drastic nature. The present leg
islature is even going further in pro-
hibiting child labor than any previous
legislature, and children under IA years
of age are not to be employed at all
In this state, except during vacation
periods and then only in limited occu-
patiOns.
England's farm hands, recently or
ganized into labor unions, are desert
ing their posts by the thousands,
thereby confronting the country with
a very serious problem. The strike
started in Norfolk county, where
10000 workers walked out in protest
against wage cut from g pence to
5h pence per hour, or less than SO
a week.
More than 100 members Of the
United Brick and Clay Workers
union are made defendants in a peti-
tion filed with the clerk of the United
States District court asking an in
junction to prevent members picket
Ing the plant Of the Vigo-American
Clay company Of Terre Haute. Ind, or
otherwise interfering with the latters
employees.
Collection Of the "check off" from
operators Of union mines in the Ka-
nawha (W. Va.) coal field was forbid
den in an injunction issued by Judge
George w. McClintick of the United
States District court The injunction
also forbids the United Mine Workers
to send any money into the state to
further unioniZation Of the nOnunlon
mines In this field.
Wages and working conditions at
the Pond Greek mines, Welch, w. Va
recently purchased by Henry Ford,
have been promulgated and are an
nounced retroactive to March /. In
the matter of inside and outside labor
there is little difference between the
scale and that Of union pits In other
states, but the new scale is at least
20 per cent higher for labor of all
classes than was paid heretofore in
the West Virginia nonunion fields.
Substantial increases during Febru-
ary were reported in the country's
metal trades, with regular seasonal
increases in the food and clothing di-
vision. Reductions were due to sea
sonal layoffs, or occurred in trades
which had been unusually active.
The level Of factory employment in
New York state factories is within II
per cent of the maximum during the
expansion Of 1919-1920, according to
the February report on employment
conditions made public by Bernard l.:
Shisntag, state industrial commits.