The Jones County news., 1920-12-23
IN OTHER FIELDS or LABOR

Notices were posted that the cottoi
mills. Lowell. Mass. employing upwar,
OF 20,OOO persons, would run halftime
Wages OF six thousand employees O
the SchoOlfeld plant Of the Dan River
Cotton mills, Danyille, Va, have beer
cut % per cent.
The unemployed in New Soutt
Wales are said to number between
1900 and 10000, mostly unsklllet
workers.
In the petroleum industry of the
United States but per cent Of the
total amount invested is held by for.
eign capital.
Temporary cessation of buying is
the reason given by officials of the
Studebaker corporation (South Bend.
lnd.) for curtailment Of their working
force by dIscharging 1000 men.
Through the reduction OF working
hours, from 551k per week to 4S, out
put In the Lancashire (Eng.) cotton
mills has declined from u TO 10 per
cent.
The Canadian Trades and Labor
congress, composed Of unions affiliated
with the American Federation Of
Labor, has membership of nearly
100000.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, who was the
-brst woman representative In congress,
Is now making tour of the country.
endeavoring to bring about the passage
of minimum wage laws.
Wages of the employees Of the New
England Telephone company win not
be reduced at the present time, accord
lag to the report of a committee rep
resentipg the workers which has been
In: conference with company officials.
After standing Idle for two weeks,
cotton mills, Including the Loray, Gas
tomas largest mill, and the Armstrong
chain of fourteen factories, resumed
operation at Gastonia, N. O., on greatly
reduced schedules of working time.
Government terms of 20 per cent
increase in wages have been accepted
by striking miners In the Coahuila
Mex regions and the men have re-
n
out two weeks.
The National Watch company at
Elgin, ILL.,, posted notices In its fac
tory that on December p its employ
ees will be paid bonus amounting to
10 per cent Of their years wages. The
company will distribute about $780,
600 among 1900 employees.
Approximately 1,200 men employed
in the New Jersey plants of the Thom-
as A. Edison affiliated industries at
West Orange and Silver Lake, N. j..
have been laid off, the company an
nounced. Reductions were necessary,
it was stated, sin keeping with the
general business trend throughout the
country"
Twenty-Five hundred employees OF /
the Menasha (Wis.) Woodenware COM
pany have been thrown out of work |
by the complete shutdown of the plant
due to lack of orders. Paper mills
have begun to lay off hands. In each
Instance lack of business is given as
the cause for the suspension of op-
In a movement to reduce expenses
the Ontario & Western railroad has
made known officially that approxi-
nately 100 motive power employees
viii be released. Between sixty and
seventy Of these are to be dropped
rom the payroll Of the shops In hid
lletown, n. Y. and the remainder at
Norwich. where the company main
aims shops.
The upward trend of factory work.
RS earnings In New YORK seems to
laye come to halt In July, ct least
emporarIIy. The final tnbuIation of
he 1.64s manufacturers July reports
admitted TO the bureau of statistics
hows an average weekly earnings of
i28.49 for the month OF July. This is
decrease Of % cents from the June
lverage. and is the first decrease re-
'orted since last April and the larg-
ST since last October.
The average number Of wage earn
RS employed In Massachusetts during
9iS was 7l0.210. as compared with
o.. .42l IN 1917. The average yearly
distinction as to age. sex or skin,
ose to S944.65 per capita. as compared
With s75s.2s In 1917.
Announcement was made that With
q three weeks Rochester IN. " fac
orles making women's shoes, now idle,
'ould reopen at full capacity to I'LL