The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-12-29
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

All logging camps and mills in north
western Wisconsin and the Upper
Michigan Peninsula have cut wages
20, per cent.
The University Of Missouri Teach
ers' union. which was affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor. has
disbanded, it was announced.
It is expected that the 1920 census
will show that one-third Of all per-
sons In the United States who are
gainfully employed are women.
The pudding Of iron by machinery,
hitherto unaccomplshed in the steel
industry, will be realized in a $5,000.-
600 plant to be erected near Warren,
o.
%, A national railroad strike has begun
in Norway. It is reported that the
other trade unions plan to strike in
sympathy. Food Is being distributed
by coastwise steamers and motor
trucks.
Bradford. England, Is to start at
once the erection Of 26O dwellings in
an effort to revive the housing situa-
ton. The city itself is to build the
houses, under the supervision Of the
city surveyor. Bricks will be fur
nished by the municipal brickyard.
BY the use Of %airplanes mining ma
chinery is to be taken to q mine in
Utah, and the output of the mine Is
to be taken out, reducing the time for
the round trip to a few hours, whereas
1t requires six weeks for mule teams
now
The Book Bearing company, manu-
facturers Of automobile parts, Toledo,
Ohio, announced that the plant, en-
ploying LOO men in normal times, had
been closed down until after the first
Of the year." The sales force a re-
tanned, however, and sent out on the
road, the announcement said. Unstable
business conditions was given as the
cause Of suspension.
Two cooperative tailor shops have
been opened at st. Louis, under the
direction Of the Merchant Tailors' as
ISOLATION. on q plan that will result
in q material reduction in clothing
prices. The work to. be done in these
shops is at present performed by "con-
tractors" who make up suits after they
have been cut by the merchant tall
Il
Cancellations of large eastern or
ers, coupled with business conditions
II general. was given as the a
for the closing of the garment plant
Of the Cohen, .Friedlander & Martin
company. Toledo, Ohio. An announce
ment from A. NJ. Streicher, secretary,
said the suspension of the industry
will be indefinite and the 100 men and
women employees were thrown out Of
employment a. the result.
Some of the New York clothing
manufacturers whose shops have been
ahut down pending negotiations with
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America. will attempt to reopen upon
an open-shop basis, it is, said. A con-
certed open-shop movement by the
manufacturers will follow, 1t was
pointed out, unless demands made by
the Clothing Manufacturers Associa-
ton Of New York, upon the Amalga'
mated are speedily adjusted.
Increases Of 20 per cent in rates
and 10 per cent In salaries to en-
ployees, effective December l, were
announced by the Postal Telegraph
end Cable company through its Sec
rotary, William J. Deegan.
Pennsylvania production of bitum-
inous coal in 1919 fell from 151.05O,30O
ions to 137,05S.5O0. although the num-
kSr q persons employed In mining was
198,2O7 last year. against 151.455 the
year hefore. The wages paid last year
sapprsximated rs $198,O24,7 700, against
32a 400 ~ 101A. and the, ayerage
G sllEssidald1ssworked was 100.