Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-05-29
General Labor News

There is $9,0OO,O00 in salaries to be
spent each year in the United States
for radio engineers.
The strike of the hides and skins
workers of Calcutta, India, still con-
tinues. Signs of weakening are seen
on the part Of the strikers. The en-
ployers are dismissing many men and
importing fresh labor from CawnpOre.
Limitation Of working hours of chill
dren in New York state to A hours a
week, instead of 48 as previously pro-
vided, was authorized when Gov. AL
fred E. Smith signed the Moore bill.
Republican women Of the state spon-
sored the measure.
What is said to be the largest order
for electrical steel mill equipment ever
given in the Pittsburgh district, involv-
Ing approximately $1,0OO.OOO, has been
placed with the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company by the
! Carnegie Steel company.
Actual work toward the construction
of twenty-four new tin plate mills by
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube COM
pany at its Indiana Harbor plant has
begun. This is the start Of the
Youngstown's $20,O0O0O0 extension
program at East Chicago which is ex-
pected to take two or three years to
complete.
In no circumstances Is an alien al
lowed to land in Great Britain to
search for work. The would-be employ
! er Of an alien, whether he requires a
French governess for his children, a
German correspondent for his office,
or Dutch glassblower for his works,
has first to obtain permission from the
minister of labor.
Provision for establishment Of
labor bureau to direct the hiring and
classification Of workers, was the chief
feature Of the new working agreement
for three years, which was overwhelm-
ingly ratified by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, and signed by all
members of the Clothiers' exchange.
There Is to be no change In wages in
the new agreement.
Joseph Angelo. an organizer for the
United Mine Workers of America, in
charge Of strike headquarters at
Wheeling, w. Va, was arrested on a
ers' association at Its annual conven-
violation of an injunction in 1909, re-
straining the union and its officers
from attempting to organize employees
of the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal
company.
With the possible exception of car
penters who are asking $11 day, an
increase of 81 over the 1924 agree
ment, peace Is assured in the build
ing trades industry in the East Liver
pool (Ohio) district for another year.
Agreements, effective May 1, have
been signed with painters, plumbers,
electricians, plasterers, bricklayers and
hodcarriers, renewing wage scales in
effect during the last year. Their
wages range from $7.20 for hodcar-
rierS to SIP for bricklayers.
The Pennsylvania Mining company,
which prosecuted the claim against the
United Mine Workers Of America, for
treble damages under the Sherman
antitrust law, arising out of the de-
struction of it's property during strikes
in Arkansas some years ago, was de-
MED a rehearing of its petition seek
ing to bring up before the Supreme
court for review the recent decision
Of the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals,
which was adverse to It's contentious.
The Department of Commerce is in
the midst Of survey to determine If
$4,000 convlcts can be kept continu-
ously engaged at productive labor
without interfering with free labor.
An investigator is now in the Middle
West making a study Of prison labor
and its effect on industrial employ
ment and from there he will go into
the South and Far West
Prospective building activity in Min
nesota and the neighboring states Is
AZ per cent greater in valuation than
year ago, although Of the 18 report
ing cities showed decreases.