Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

employing o4,Dlo WOfhefs, over ohes
half are women.
Arsenic is found in japan as an
ore. as well as being a hy-produet
| from the smelling of copper and lead.
A wage reduction of 20 per cent has
been agreed upon by 80 contractors en-
bracing the largest building firms OF
Tampa. Fla.
A wage reduction equal to 80 per
cent of all increases granted since 1917
Is announced by the Atlanta. Birming-
ham 4 Atlantic railroad.
The Asheville IN. CO. cotton mills,
which suspended operations several
weeks ago, resumed running. The plant
is the largest of It's kind In the section.
| In Italy the women employed In
banks and offices work only six hours
day, from 8 to II and from TO o.
They also enjoy Saturday half holi-
day all the year.
BY agreement between employees
and the management reduction OF
10 per cent in wages became effective
January 10 In the Pueblo plant OF the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company.
A six-day-a-~e-.k working schedule
Will be put into effect at the Detroit
plant of the Studebaker corporation.
The plant had been operating three
days n week up until 1t closed for in
ventory.
The 500 employees of the Lands
| Tool company, with shops at Waynes-
boro and Greencastle. Pa, voted to ac-
cept 20 per cent reduction In wages
and to work 80 hours week rather
than have the plants close.
Boston plasterers struck for $3.50 an
hour. Pasterers' tenders also walked
out demanding S1.25 an hour. The
strike followed failure of the employ
ers to renew an agreement that ex-
pired recently. at higher rates.
The Union cotton mills, Lafayette,
Ga one of the plants of the American
Textile corporation, announced that
ful-time operation would be resumed
at once, but that reduction of 10 per
| cent In wages would be made effective.
Between 1000 and 1900 coal miners
| at Greenwood, Ark. Heavener and
| How. Okla, were released from their
| shifts when Il mines of the Consoli-
| dated Fuel company and associated
| companies suspended operations. Lack
| of demand for coal Is responsible for
the suspension.
| The six textile unions of the Ameri-
can Federation of Textile Operatives
voted to accept the wage reduction of
| 221b per cent recently announced by
! the manufacturers. The action of the
unions affects approximately $4,000 en-
ployees In 40 cotton cloth and yarn
| mills In Fall River, Mass.
Possibility of general strike of har-
Dor employees at New York was avert
ed when members of the Masters
| Mates and Pilots union voted to in
struct their representatives to sign an
| agreement with the towboat owners In
accordance with the award of an arbi-
| tratlon board December 81.
Between 1,2o0 and 1000 soft coal
miners In the Montana district are able
| TO obtain only one to three days work
each week, according TO Robert Con-
| don, district secretary for the United
| Mine Workers. The owners of the
mines explain that the demand has
| been so much reduced that they cannot
afford to work the men full time.
Nineteen factories affiliated with the
Rochester IN. " Clothing exchange
resumed active operations with the be-
ginning of the new year. 1t is esti-
mated that fully 1900 persons re-
sumed work as result of the reopen
ing of plants that have been idle since
| early last fall. The shoe factories took
| on 1000 hands and will add 1000 more.
! A special meeting was held of the
Rhondda district branch of the South
| Wales Miners federation. covering
| the whole of the affected area, where
$4,000 men ceased work, urging that
| the dismissal of IL men was due TO
| victlmization by the management.
The delegates voted to resume work
pending negotiations between their
executive committee and the coal own
ers.
| officials of the Hubbard Pressed
Steel company, Niles, o., announce that
the plant, which employs 1000 men.
will be closed indefinitely. The shut
down followed a wage reduction of 20
per cent, which was announced re-
Gently.
At Martinsburg, w. Va, the Inter-
woven mills, employing LOCO persons.
reopened on full time and at 20 per
cent wage cut. after three weeks shut
down. Company officials said continu-
anee of the work on the full-time SEIZED.
ule depended upon developments In the
J industry.