Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-04
OTHER LABOR NOTES

OuIilS the piiSl year i,iop hhiShSN
ships were delivered by American ship
building firms.
Reductions In working forces I'm all
departments of the Union Pacific rail-
road system have been in progress.
For the first nine months of 1920 the
weekly output per person In the Brit
ish mining industry averaged 3.S tons.
The Hannibal division of the Bur-
lington railroad reduced the force Of
the shops Is per cent, or about 1lo
men.
The bricklayers union at Ottawa.
Ill., voted to reduce wages of men,
bers 10 per cent. The present wage
Is $40 a day.
At Worcester Mass. Reed Il Prince
Manufacturing company announced a
wage reduction of 10 to 20 per cent for
LOO employees.
The painters, decorators and paper
hangers union of Helena, Mont, vol
unteered to accept wage reduction
of 90 cents day.
The Woonsocket (Rhode lsland)
Rubber company, employing, $500 an
nounced downward wage revision.
effective February z.
Notice of reduction In wages which
employees figure will reach 10 per cent
have been announced at the Cruclble
Steel company plant at Syracuse, n. \.
A 20 per cent decrease In wages was
accepted by the Hat Finishers' local
No. A, Orange, N. J. The men will return
10 the schedules of November, 1919, IS
day. About 1000 men are employed.
Twenty thousand workmen are idle
in Barcelona, Spain, as result of the
labor crisis. Several plants have
closed down entirely and some textile
| factories are working only three days
n week.
The laws of different states show
wide variance In the weights which
working women are permitted to lift.
Ohio and Pennsylvania set limit of
| 10 pounds, New York of % pounds and
Massachusetts of 40 pounds.
Robert A. Pottinger, building contrac-
/
damages against seven labor and build
ing organizations. Refusal to deliver
supplies because he was doing BUSH
ness with nonunion firm is charged.
Fifteen per cent reduction in wages
was announced by Il. w. Hopkins,
mines, Ironwood, Mich. a four-day
week will also go into effect. IL. G.
.Iussen announced reduction of 10
per cent in wages at the Townsite
mine. Other mines on the Gogebic
range will operate one shift.
The wage scale board for the lum-
Der mills in the Hoquiam (Wash.) dis
trict reduced wages of common labor
from S4 to $500 day. The prices of
board In company camps was cut from
$3.50 to S1.30 day. Lumber workers,
however won virtual victory when
the scale board abrogated reduction
of one-third in the wages of all wood.
men and substituted a 16 per cent cut.
Reports circulated that the Stand.
ard Oil company was planning 10
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employees in all parts of the United
States received added currency follow
ing news of cuts made by Standard OH
subsidiaries in widely separated fields
New Jersey and West Virginia. Two
general increases of 10 per cent each
were granted by the Standard on COM
pany of New Jersey during the war.
In Great Britain. where the unem.
ployment situation is becoming more
serious. the government has recon.
mended employers to Institute. as far
as practicable, the system of short
time, so that work may be spread out
and as many workers as possible en-
ployed.
Employees of the Canadian Car and
Foundry company, Fort William. Ont.
who walked out after the company an.
nounced a 10 per cent reduction I'm
piece work rates, returned to work.
The men voted to accept the reduc,
ton.