Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
OTHER LABOR NEWS.

plant Coatsville. Pa.
Building at ST. Louis is at stand
still following refusal of workers TO
accept a cut of 20 per cent.
| At Evansville. Ind, building con-
strnction was Mt standstill, the
workmen refusing TO accept u 20 per
cent wage cut.
A strike OF union painters was
called mt Springfield, ILL.,, when con-
tractors refused to continue the scale
Of 81 an hour.
The Spokane, Portland and Seattle
railway notified all Of It's employees
that wage reductions equivalent TO
| the increases granted last summer will
| be made.
The General Cigar company, operat-
ing two factories at Quakertown, Pa,
announced that full time will be In
augurated at once, after reduced time
| for several months Several thousand
workers are affected
| The 12Ik per cent wage cut advo-
Gated by the Chicago Contractors as
| sociation was accepted by $50 mem
beers of the Machinery, Safe Movers
and Rlggers' union, affiliated with the
Chicago Building Trades Council,
unanimously.
While denying that the strike or
building trades workers In Boston and
Rochester are the forerunners Of
national tieup of building operations,
John Il. Donlin. president of the build
| rtt nf thu Amer
| lean Federation of Labor, said the
workers would not accept reduction
| In wages
The strike OF 1900 employees of the
Independent and William Davis Pack
| ing companies at the Union Stock
| yards, Chicago, was settled by Judge
Alschuler, arbitrator. The men went
back to work, and the question or
seniority rights of those who quit
work will be taken up by the arbitra-
| tor next week.
| Announcement of wage reductions
| was made by the American Brass
company, Ansonia, Conn.,, following
conferences with shop committees
from the local mills. A cut Of 10 per
cent Is to be made in salaries and In
piece work rates. Employees work
Ing on an hourly basis VIII have their
wages reduced cents an hour.
Building trades workers of Indian
apolis are asked to accept wage reduc-
tions of 10 to 25 per cent, 1t was an
nounced by T. b. Hatfield, president
of the Building Contractors associ-
alton. Consequent reduction In build
ing costs would result in completion
of building program of between S4,-
100000 and s5,0O0000. Mr.. Hatfield
said.
The first step In the organization
of the 175,000 railroad workers in the
! East into one group centrally con-
trolIed was effected when 800 union
representatives met at New York and
laid the groundwork for the amaiga.
, nation. The new body, II was an
nounced. will take no part in wage
controversies. It's main purpose Is TO
! spread trade union propaganda among
the various classes OF railroad work
ers.
william F. 0gburn, professor OF
economies at Barnard; Allen T.
Burns, of the Carnegie corporation,
and Raymond ID. Fosdick have been
agreed upon as arbitrator between the
! New York Employing Printers asso-
, citation and their pressmen, feeders.
paper handlers and cutters under the
wage contract that is to be reopened
as of today. The employers ask re-
, ducfion of wages of % per cent. while
/ the employees ask an increase of from
$40 to $40.
A strike In the Boston printing
/ trades was begun because of a re
duetion In wages. Shops In Boston,
: Cambridge and Norwood were affect
ed, approximately 100 book and job
. printing establishments and from L..
500 TO $500 persons being involved.
! The action was precipitated by the
: posting OF notices of the wage cut,
which the Boston Typographical union
: demanded be taken down. but the sit
/ uation had been developing for months
5 in connection with the unions demand
for a 44-hour week.
; Emphatic denial was made at the
: New York offices of the United States
Steel corporation of published stories
that wage reductions of 20 per cent
: and cuts In prices of iron and steel
: products were contemplated by the
company.
The American Federation of Labor
will eontinua lie war against tho Tint
! ted States Steel corporation, but
''h0pes 10 organize the workers In
the steel industry without strike"
William Harmon, who is in charge
of the campaign to unionize the steel
workers, announced.