The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-12-29
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR
Notices were posted that the cotton
mills, Lowell, Mass, employing upward
of 10000 persons, would run halftime.
Wages Of six thousand employees Of
the Schoolfeld plant Of the Dan River
Cotton mills, Danville, Va, have been
cut 25 per cent.
The unemployed in New South
Wales are said to number between
1900 and 10000, mostly unskilled
workers.
In the petroleum industry Of the
United States but 4 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,
INDY for curtailment Of their working
force by discharging 1000 men.
Through the reduction Of working
hours, from SSH per week to 4S, out
put in the Lancashire (Eng.) cotton
mills has declined from II to Is per
cent.
The Canadian Trades and Labor
congress. composed Of unions affiliated
with the American Federation Of
Labor. has a membership Of nearly
100000.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, who was the
first wOma representative in congress,
is now making a tour of the country,
endeavoring to bring about the passage
Of minimum wage laws.
Wages of the employees of the New
England Telephone company will not
be reduced at the present time, accord
ing to the report of q committee rep
resenting the workers which has been
in conference with company officials.
After standing idle for two weeks,
cotton mills, including the Loray, Cas-
tomas largest mill, and the Armstrong
chain of fourteen factories, resumed
operation at Gastonia, N. c., N greatly
reduced schedules Of working time.
Government terms of 70 per cent
increase in wages have been accepted
by striking miners in the Coahuila
(Mex.) regions and the men have re-
turned to work. The men had been
out two weeks.
The National Watch company at
Elgin, ILL.,, posted notices in its fac
tory that on December p its employ
ees will he paid a bonus amounting to
! ~ M, <.n,,t ~ tl,o;,. n no r1yo nnc Tho
company will distribute about $780,
900 aiiiOng 1900 employees.
Approximately LOO 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, lin 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 of hands. In each
instance lack of business is given as
the cause for the suspension Of op'
erations.
In q movement to reduce expenses
the Ontario & Western railroad hal
made known officially that approx
mately 100 motive power employees
will be released. Between sixty ane
seventy Of these are to be droppet
from the payroll Of the shops In Mid
' dletown, NJ Y, and the remainder q
Norwich, where the company main
tains shops.
The upward trend of factory work
ers' earnings In New York seems t.
have come to a halt in July, at leas
temporarily. The final tabulation o
the 1913 manufacturers July report
submitted to the bureau Of statistic
shows an average weekly earnings 0
$3.50 for the month of July. This !
a decrease Of % cents from the Jun
average, and is the first decrease re
ported since last April and the lara
est since last October.
The average number Of wage earn
ers employed in Massachusetts, durin
1918 was 1920, IS compared wit
7O8.421 In 1917. The average yearl
distinction as to age, sex or skill
ROSE to $944.85 per capita, o. compare
with $75a23 in 1917.
Announcement was made that witt
IN three weeks Rochester IN. ~ IA
tories making women's shoes, now idl'
would reopen at full capacity ton
orders for spring stock. The factol
~ employ. about $4,000 men and won
=, ms0gsif than 1900 81 whom hav
J bssn i6te for about two months.