Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-25
OTHER LABOR NOTES

/ stage. Entire families In the dla-
mond regions are reported starving.
Armed strikers who have been ter
rorizing the territory Of Santa Cruz,
southern Argentina, have surrendered
Internationally and given up their
arms.
Canada's new program for preven-
ton of unemployment eenters IN a
national employment service working
In close touch with the immigration
department.
| Increased production schedules were
officially announced at Detroit by the
Wilson Body company, Paige-Detroit
Motor Car company, Studebaker cor
poratlon, and Liberty Starter COM
pany.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
| handed notices of furlough to 100 men
employed In the Juaniata (Pa) shops,
where engines are built and repaired
| About 100 men I'm the Altoona car
shops got notices, the announcement
said.
A general reduction of 1898 per cent
I'm wages paid In the building trades
of Philadelphia was recommended In Il
report presented to the Philadelphia
| chamber of commerce conference on
building construction conditions In
that vicinity.
Carpenters, painters and bricklayers
In the vicinity of Red Lion, Pa, have
agreed to a reduction of 10 cents per
hour in wages after April l. The car
penters and painters will receive 50
cents an hour and the brieklayers will
be paid IS cents.
The Kilbourne & Jacobs Mnnufac-
turing company notified It's 800 en-
ployees that beginning Immediately the
plant would operate ten hours day
instead of eight without increasing
wages. In 1918 the plant went on an
eight-hour day basis with n % per cent
Increase In wages.
The Illinois Steel company of Joliet,
subsidiary of the United States Steel
corporation, which formerly operated
its plant on two 12-hour shifts Is now
running on two nine-hour shifts. Off
Gals of the company stated they pre-
ferred reducing hours to closing down.
Three eight-hour shifts are predicted
when business reaches normal.
A wage reduction of Is per cent
was announced by the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing company,
Pittsburgh ii. p. Vine, vice president
of the concern In charge of operations,
said the cut was made necessary by
competitive conditions, the fall In
prices and the decrease In volume OF
business.
All of the workers OF trades allied
with the paper industry involved In
the controversy with the Croker
McElwain and Chemical Paper COM
panies, Holyoke, Mass, who have been
on strike in resistance to the individ-
ual contract system. returned TO work
following the recommendations of a
special committee, pending the draft
ing of a new agreement.
A wage reduction of 20 per cent is
necessary for successful operation OF
the #. w. Hoyt Shoe company of Man
chester, n. H.. the state board of con-
Citation ruled. The decision, however
said that the cut should not be made
at one time, 10 per cent to be taken
from present rates on March l and an
additional 10 per cent reduction made
on May 1.
An increase of IS per cent was re
ported in the weekly payrolls of Haver
, hill (Mass.) concerns affiliated with
the Shoe Manufacturers association
The aggregate payroll for 70 shoe firms
was 93,063. rs compared with $TS,24l
for the previous week. Reports from
the local labor unions were that near
ly 60 per cent of the employees are
now Mt work in the shoe and its allied
trades.
In an attempt 10 encourage building
and thereby stimulate public Interest
and confidence. the Master Builder:
association of Lawrence, Mass, noti
fled the Building Trades council tina
wage cut of 20 per cent would h'
effective at once The scale was 81 al
hour. Those crafts affected by the de
crease are the masons, tenders, brick
layers, painters, paperhangers, plaster
ers and all tradesmen affiliated will
the trades council.
At Sandusky. Ohio. the plants o
the American Crayon company anl
the Kroma Color company. weri
, closed down. Both concerns are over
) stocked, according 10 official state
: ments. About 800 men and womei
are affected.
! one hundred and twenty members
Of the painters, timers, carpenters anC
; bricklayers unions, employed ut thi
, Sugar Creek plant Of the Standard OF
, company. Kansas City, did not repor
5 for work because of an announce,
wage reduction of 10 per cent, affect
Ing all laborers.