Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-09-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

The present cost of German labor
in the Woodworking trades is stated
to be about one-sixth Of the cost of
equivalent labor in the United States.
At the closing session of the Inter
national Brotherhood Of Telephone
Workers at Providence, R. L., John ].
DOlan Of Boston, Mass, was elected
president.
The tide Of industrial depression in
the Calumet region was stayed some
what when 300 men started work in
the recently closed repair shops of
the Indiana Harbor Belt railway.
City officials of Worcester, Mass,
made arrangements to place 1000
unemployed men at work on munich
pal improvements. A new reservoir
is one Of the projects undertaken.
The National Malleable Casting
company at Sharon, Pa, announced
that it would operate it's mills five
days week instead of on the two
day schedule in effect for several
months.
The Pawtucket Or. ~ plant Of the
J. & P. Coates incorporation, employ
ing 5000 hands and called the largest
thread mandatory in this country,
has reOpened. All departments are
running with night and day forces.
Two companies of National Guard
troops were ordered to Concord N.
n NV GovorDOr NToryiSop To supDrose,
disorders growing out of a strike of
cotton mill workers in progress there
for several months.
Wages of carmen Of the interurban
lines of the East st. Louis & Sub
urban railway company were cut from
so to 81 cents an hour The money
derived from the reduction will be
placed in fund pending outcome OF
a decision by a board of arbitration.
ROundhOuse employees at Kent, o.,
who would not obey Erie railroad rules
as to physical examinations and Sun
day work without overtime pay, have
been dismissed, and their places filled
with new men, who are being afforded
protection against pickets,
About 400 shipbuilders were laid off
at the upper and lower plants of the
Baltimore Drydocks & Shipbuilding
company, and those workmen who
were not laid off were notified that a
10 per cent wage cut would be made
No Increase in activity at the yards
Is expected until fall
Decks have been cleared for revival
Of business and painting in Laporte,
Ind, following announcement of local
painters union that they have de-
creased scale from 80 to IS cents
an hour. A few days ago the car
penters' union decreased their scale
from 81 to 50 cents an hour.
The determined stand of railroad
shOpmen against piecework was fur
Their emphasized In a continuation of
hearings begun before the United
State railroad labor board at Chicago.
Union representatives from various
western roads and a group of south
eastern lines sestified that their con-
stituents we're unanimous against any
system of piecewOrk.
Negotiations are under way which,
If consummated, will result in the Sill
Wis (nl) shops, the largest Of the
Rock Island lines, employing 1900
men, passing from direct control of
the railway company into private
hands. It became known that a deal
is pending between the Baldwin Loco
motive works and the Rock Island
lines and indications are that the Sill
Wis as well as other shops Of the sys-
tenn will be taken over by the Bald
win company.
All hopes that the building dead
lock in the Fox River (Wis.) valley
would be broken were shattered with
refusal of the Fox River Valley Mas
ter Builders association to accept
the offer of striking carpenters to re-
turn to work at IS cents an hour with
the understanding that the closed
shop would be adhered to
Nine hundred factory workers were
laid off by the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber company at Akron, o. Re
duction of the force will mean only a
slight curtailment in production, ON
cials say.