Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-27
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Japan Is considering the possibility
Of substituting the silk industry.
Thirty-two Youngstown tOhio) steel
plants have resumed operations.
More than rs per cent of the dia-
mond workers In Rotterdam are idle.
The state Of Illinois will go into the
road building business AS an expert
ment ths spring.
Employees OF the Bay City tMich.)
street car company voted to accept a
ten per cent reduction In wages.
The old wage scale OF 80 per day
for granite cutters will be kept In
force until April, 1923. in New York
city.
The Wholesale Clothing Manufac-
turers In Great Britain have agreed
to grant wage increases to their
workers.
There Is much activity among the
iron mines In Alabama and In the last
few weeks many mines have resumed
operations.
The Delaware and Hudson railroad
shops at Colonie, Green Island and
Oneonta were closed for an indefinite
period. About 1900 men are affected.
The reductions include electricians
from 95 CENTS an hour to STA cents
stone masons, $1.10 to 90 cents; brick
layers, $l25 TO 81; fathers, 81 to so
cents; common laborers, 10 to 80
cents.
High school teachers of Edmonton,
Alta, who have been on strike several
weeks to force salary increases and
representation on the school board re-
turned to work, an agreement having
been reached.
The changing TO the eight-hour day
by the United States Steel corporation
In Its plant at Gary, Ind, will mean
that 10000 additional men must be
hired and that 20 per cent reduction
In pay viii be in order.
The Grant & Fitchburg yarn mills,
Fitchburg. Mass, manufacturers of
cotton yarn. closed since last October.
were reopened with wage cut said to
average 80 per cent. About 200 of the
800 employees returned TO work
| The American Steamship Owners
association announced 1t will put into
effect ut once the 10 per cent wage re-
duction suggested by Admiral Benson.
| chairman Of the United States Ship
ping board. as a,compromise,
In order TO boom building operations.
bricklayers In Reading, Pa, have sig
nihed their willingness to accept re-
duction in wages. Other building
unions have agreed to act In accord
ance with the bricklayers views.
An act introduced in the Rhode
Island legislature proposes the accept
ance of federal law to promote vo-
cational rehabilitation of persons dis
abled in industry or otherwise, and TO
aid their return to civil employment.
Four thousand members Of the Unit
ed Hatters of America rejected 20
per cent wage cut, effective June l, ac-
cording to Martin Lawler. general sec
rotary of the union. He said the pro-
posed reduction would cut average
wages from So to SO day.
| Inc DTueF Vi 1ihitu HUNT
board that the st. Louis and South
western railroad restore the position
and pay of section foremen and track
laborers was described by J. NJ. Her
bert, president of that road, as imam
date for closed shop"
At conference between British
ship owners and delegates of the vari
GUS seamen's unions the delegates
agreed to recommend that the unions
accept reduction in wages of e. los
(S2.50) monthly and refer the Ques
tons of allowances and overtime pay
TO a Joint board for revision.
The three great declarations in Eng,
land-miners. transport workers and
railwaymen-have combined mem.
bership of more than 100000.
officials of the Fonda, Johnstown
and Gloversville Railroad company an.
nounced 20 per cent wage reduction
affecting all employees of both steam
and electric divisions.
The Kansas City Builders associa
ton reduced wages OF all mechanics
and laborers about 20 per cent. The
new scale equals that paid preceding
May l, 1920. Sight thousand are af
fected.