Evening star., 1920-11-16
INDUSTRIES ; REDUCE" l'|: !
IFORCESANDOUTPUT.
Railroads and Mills Make
(, Drastic Cuts in Number
? of Employees.

BALTIMORE Md. November 16
Especially. D.-Laying off of men by the
hundreds in plants that employ sew
partly due to season and partly to
curtailment of operations. The finish
ing of a job in one place has for the
past few years been a matter of lit
tie concern to workmen. for until the
present there has always been anoth-
er job elsewhere.
One Of the first effects of the lay-of
has been to fill the capacity of the
cheap lodging houses. where rs cent s
means a nights lodging and another
two bits" will pay for brea kfast, and
old and 10 cent ''fophruses' will
make their temperance here.
The state roads commission has sus-
pended work on thirty-one jobs.
throwing 1000 men out of work. At
Sparrows Point, about 800 machinists
tween 400 and 500 men at the Balti-
more Dry Docks and Shipbuilding
Company have been notified that they
will not be needed after the next ship
Is finished.
The Pennsylvania railroad has cut
down its force here by about 16a men
and the Baltimore and Ohio laid off
about 100 men at the, Mount Clare
shops on account of completion of
work on which they were engaged.
Pcnnsy to Cut Forces.
PHILADELPHIA. November 16-The
Pennsylvania railroad will lay off 800
more men, 1000 of them ON the nfiia-
delphia division. within the next five
days. according 10 announcement by the
company. The Philadelphia division ex-
tends from outside this city TO Harris
burg.
Fifteen hundred of the employees will
be laid off in the Central Pennsylvania
division. which comprises Willialnsport,
Sunbury, Elnira and the Schuylkih di-
vision. At Wfiliamsport. where it is
announced sos will go. the majority will
be car shop employees. Since the end of
duction Of more than 10000. employees of
the Pennsylvania system most of them
east of Pittsburgh. .@a
Two Roads to Act.
ALBANY. y. Y. Move nbsT.l6 -Four
hundred Shopmen employed by the New
York Central Railroad Company at the
West Albany repair shops and 100 other
workers will be laid off, officials of the
company announced. -
The Boston and Albany railroad post.
ed 2 notice that 10 per cent of its work
ing force of 80 here would be made
idle tomorrow
A slump in business is responsible for
the reductions. company off iafs say
start Forty-Hour Week. -
WORCESTER. Mass. November 16.
The Norton Company, manufacture
ers Of abrasives. have started a forty
hour week for its employees because of
q reduction of business
The Grafton & knight Manufacture
ing Company. belt and leather max
ers, is put on a five-day week: Brad
ley Car Works has cut it's force from
1000 to 500 men and the WhittaH car
pet mills are closed entirely for a week
At least.
DURHAM, N. c.. November 16-The
Erwin Cotton Mills Company. the
st-Durham Cotton Manufacturing
Company and the Pearl Cotton Mills
Company announced 25 per cent cut
in wages of their operatives, effective
Monday. November 22. The reduction
1t Is stated, will affect about 5000 EN-
p1oyes. For some weeks the mills
have been operating under shorter
hours per week.
WEIRTON. w. Va. November Is.-
Onicials Of the Phelps Can Company
announced here last night that their
plant. employing 200 persons, would be
shut down Immediately, due to lack of
orders.
BUTTE. Mont, November l6.-Eur-
ther reduction in working force of
the various mines in and about this
city was made when Poulin. Alice and
West Gray Rock mines, all zinc prop.
critics Of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, were closed. About 400 men
are affected