Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-09-21
OTHER NEWS OF LABOR

Week workers in the New York
crease of 10 per cent in wages.
Eighty-eight per cent of the en-
plOyees of the Commonwealth Edison
company, Chicago, own stock in the
company.
The attempted general strike in
Greece which the authorities de-
clared was engineered by the COM,
munists was called off and the
strikers resumed work.
A resolution favoring labor laws for
women, irrespective Of whether they
apply to men or not was adopted at
the Third International Congress of
Working Women, in session at Vienna,
Austria. American labor organizations
have for a long time advocated such
laws in the state and national legisla-
lures.
Officials of the International Ladies
Garment Workers union are planning
the establishment Of a cooperative
factory and chain Of stores for the
cago of cloaks. suits and dresses, it
was said by Meyer Perlstein, vice
president of the organization. It is
planned, he said, to raise 100000 with
which to start a factory.
Denouncing the organization called
the Minute Men of the Constitution"
as "the legitimate descendant of Cap
tain Kidd and the primitive pirates of
feudal times" President John H.
Walker of the Illinois Federation of
Labor called upon labor unionists in
Illinois to recognize their enemies and
on Labor day to rededicate themselves
to ''frst principles"
The Vaudeville Managers associa-
tion of New York has granted motion
picture operators wage increase Of
2215 per cent. Harry Mackier, presi-
dent of the Moving Picture Operators
Union, Local No 306, said he con-
strued the action of the~theater-owners
chamber of commerce, in refusing to
grant an increase of % per cent, as a
forced lockout"
Vera Cruz, Mexico, resumed COM
munication with the outside world
when the railway lines entering the
port were again in operation after
five-day tieup. The labor dispute that
had isolated the city ended after a
conference between representatives of
the Confederation of Railway Mems
Societies and the Workers league of
the Vera Cruz maritime zone.
Through intervention of Benjamin
M. Marshman, United States Depart
ment of Labor conciliator the threat
ened strike of Chicago's 10000 grocery
and butcher clerks was postponed for
several weeks. The clerks union is
asking for a minimum weekly wage
of $40, time and a half for overtime,
no Sunday work, nine-hOur day, and
the recognition Of the clerks union.
Officials of the Northern Pacific
railroad announced that they have
signed an eight-hour-day contract with
their yardmasters, effective Sept. !.
An eight-hour day has been in effect
on the Pacific division of the North
Il
troll of the railroads was ended, so
that the contract just signed is ac-
tually operative only on the eastern
end of the system.
Salary increases amounting to S14,-
04O year, and affecting thirtythree
executives and office employees of De
trOit'S municipally-Ow street rail-
way, will be permitted to stand, Will
liam J. Nigel, city controller, an
nounced after a conference with Mayor
Frank DOremus.
During 1922 there were 402 labor
conflicts in Austria-366 strikes and 36
lockouts. One-third Of these strikes,
in which 5S,732 men were involved,
took place in Vienna. Only "a of the
strikes were successful 173 were part
successful and the rest failures.