Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-29
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


Between 5000 and 1000 employees
returned to work at the Overland au-
tomobile plant ut Toledo, Ohio.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, 100 union
building workers agreed to accept a
wage reduction of 10 per cent. The
vote was almost unanimous.
Increased operation for independent
steel plants Of the Youngstown (Ohio)
district are announced. Ten sheet
mills will resume operations.
The 200 employees of the McAdoo
knitting mill, Hazleton, Pa, were
notified of an increase in wages of
from 30 to 80 cents a day, according
to their class of work.
The American Brass company, An
sonia, Conn, will cut salary and piece
work rates 10 per cent and wages of
employees working on an hourly basis
will be reduced 5 cents an hour.
Maintenance of way employees on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road lines west Of the Missouri river
were increased by about 1900 men
April /.
Increased production by the Buick
Motor company, Flint. Mich, was an
nounced. The force has been placed
on ii basis of five and half days
week instead of three.
At Plttsfeld. Mass, the paper mills
OF Crane & Company Y. &. w. M.
Crane and Byron Weston announced
wage reduction of from 10 to Is per
cent. The Musgrove knitting mill of
this city has closed indefinitely.
Lumber mill operators In the Fred
erickson IN. b. district announced
their intention of returning to the ten
hour day, a nine-hour schedule having
been adopted last year. Reductions
in wages amounting to as much as 20
per cent were announced by some EN-
ployers.
Wage cuts affecting 25,00O en-
ployees of the Western Electric COM
pany's manufacturing plants at Chi
cago have been put in effect. The cut
In some cases kills and in other cases
reduces by 80 per cent the surplus
war wages"-a weekly war bonus
paid In addition TO regular pay. The
average reduction is about per cent.
John Mcfarland, president of the
International Typographical union, an
nounced that the International would
support the Binghamton IN " strik-
ers with fund of S3,500,000 created
for such purpose. Newspapers which
were affected by the strike are pub
| fishing normal size editions under the
open-shop plan.
The Boston Typothetae announced
reduction of "a a week In the pay
Of journeymen printers and of So a
week In the pay of journeywomen
printers, effective at once. The cut
applies also to the bookbindlng indus
try. Requests for higher wages and
for reduction in working hours had
been made by unions.
Several hundred street car men of
Toledo, Ohio, in secret session, voted
on wage scale in an effort to thwart
an attempt of the Community Trac-
ton company to reduce wages by
about 10 per cent. Although officers
OF the Garments association would
make no definite statement, 1t was I'M
derstood that any wage reduction
would be opposed vigorously.
Believing the legal rights of the rail-
road workers are not endangered, Fed
eral Judge John r. Safer. Mt Column
bus, Ohio. dismissed the suit filed by
Cecil Jewell on behalf Of 1850 rail-
road workers seeking to enjoin Off
Gals OF the Toledo & Ohio Central.
the GAINESVILLE X Western, the Ka-
nawha 4 Michigan and the Kanawha
& West Virginia railroads from re-
ducing wages to SO cents from ASH
cents an hour.
Over 10000 employees of the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal company re-
sumed work on full time at the Potts.
Vile Pa) collieries The p. &. II.
has 1000 empty coal cars at the st.
Clair yards and an equally large num-
Der at other points.
Declaring they were not receiving
a living wage and demanding longer
hours for work, 500 employees of the
Eagle and Phoenix mills, a cotton
textile mill at Columbus, Ca, walked
out The workers demand 30 per cent
increase In wages and full-time opera
J ton OF the plant.