Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-08
OTHER LABOR ITEMS


exceeding 1000.
At Elkhart, Ind. 5000 New York
Central railroad shop employees were
laid off indefinitely.
Shopmen and trackmen employed
on the Union Pacific railroad are only
working five days n week.
The Lincoln Motor company plant,
Detroit, Mich, resumed full time oper-
atoms with an enlarged force.
Men In Newport News, Va. who are
unemployed must either work on
sewer improvements or 90 to jail.
One thousand women are employed
In the banks of Boston, many of them
In positions of great responsibility.
Manchurla has about $1,000 tim
Der workers. of which 10000 are EN-
poyed In cutting and rafting logs and
5000 as teamsters.
Nearly 500 local unions are now af-
flllated with the International Iron
Molders union and the total member
ship exceeds 10000.
Women workers In Germany who
have homes to look after must be re-
leased from their work at least one
hour before the noon rest period.
The New York Central announced q
wage cut, effective April IS, for $4,000
employees between New York and Chi
cago The order affects SO classes OF
wOrkmen.
A reduction of 20 per cent In the
wages of all building trade employees
was ndorsed Mt Memphis, Tenn, fol-
lowing meeting ut the Memphis
Builders Exchange.
The strike of yancouyers unem-
ployed TO enforce increased wages for
emergency relief work and elimina,
ton of rock breaking proved unsuc-
cessful municipal authorities said.
Frank Hedley, general manager of
the marlborough Transit company,
was once a mechanical foreman for
the Manhattan Elevated railroad In
New York city.
The local union of laundry work
ers in Lynn, Mass. is establishing n
$4,000 cooperative union laundry in
order to provide work for members of
the union who were locked out by
laundry owners in that city.
Sixty men I'm the sulphite depart
ment of the Great Northern Paper
company, Madison, Me-, have been
laid off Indefinitely. No reduction
was made in the paper-making and
ground-wood sections.
A reduction i'm the wages of I'M
skilled labor throughout its system,
effective April 16. was announced by
the Southern Pacific railroad. The
minimum will range from 30 cents an
hour In the southern division to some
what higher rates In other zones.
Toledo (Ohio) contractors announced
proposed cut of 20 per cent in the
wages of men engaged in building con-
struction. Their contracts with yari-
GUS unions expire April l, and the re-
duction Is declared imperative IL
building is to be revived.
A reduction In wages of the I'M
skilled employees of all the principal
railroads In New England is forecast.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford. the Boston & Albany and the
Boston 4 Maine railroads called con-
| ferences of employees at which the
extent of the. cut is TO be discussed.
April 4 Is the date tentatively set for
| the reduction which on these roads
will affect Approximately 1000 men
A further reduction of Is per cent in
wages, which. with the abolition Of
| bonuses. makes total cut of 30 per
| cent since the downward trend Of
| prices began, is announced by the Vic
| tor Monaghan company, which oper-
| ates eight large cotton mills in upper
| South Carolina. The reduction affects
/ between five and six thousand employ
ees Office employees also are affect
| ed by this reduction, for the first time.
The effective date of the 10 per cent
cut in wages of 10000 shipyard work
! ers decided upon by the Atlantic
| Coast Shipbuilders' association for
| March was postponed until March Ii.
A. j. Berries, secretary of the metal
| trades department of the American
Federation of Labor. said the post
ponement was made 10 give the
unions time TO notify the workers of
the results of the recent referendum in
which the men voted against accept
ance of a reduction.
Boston and Albany railroad officials
notified representatives of labor that,
! effective April 4. the rates of pay in
effect April 30. 1920, would be restored.
1t means a reduction OF about ten
cents an hour.
! Railroads running into Minneapolis
served 30-day notice on 25.00o main
tenanee of way employees. laborers in
the railroad shops and bridge work
ers OF a cut In wages TO 2s cents an
hour. The present wage is 4SI5 cents
Roads serving notice are the Great
Northern. Northern Pacific. Milwau
kee, 500 and Minneapolis s ST. Louis