Evening star., 1921-03-23
NEW ENGLAND MILLS SHOW
BIGDROP IN LABOR AND OUTPUT
Number Closed Down and Further Cur
tailment Expected-Cotton Print Prices
Below Cost-Situation Elsewhere.

Builders have announced that they
VIII pay 30 cents per hour to carpen-
ters who are holding out for sl12i.
per hour. Brick manufacturers an
nounce reduction Of 20 per cent
from prices of December last. which
they state will be rock notion until
wages are lowered
Employing printers have declared
their intention OF resisting the move
ment OF printers TO reduce hour.
from forty-eight to forty-four a week
on May j. asserting that they are
sun paying war wages and the mar
SIN OF pfont is too small to permit OF
a iorty-four-hour schedule Manu-
Iacturers identified with The chamber
OF commerce are standing firmly for
the open shop. The strike of textile
workers is still on.
Slump 1t sAipyards.
At the Cramp shipyards 4 500 men
are at work and the management re-
CARDS the strike as at an end without
concessions having been made. En-
ployment at other Delaware river
shfpyards includes 1000 men at the
sw Hew York Shipbuilding Company.
s;Voo at the Sun Company 5000 at
Cnester. making 81. 300 who have ac-
cepted the reduction Of 10 per cent
IN wages this month.
This number will gradually decreas
as shlps on the ways are finished, be-
cause rev new orders have been re-
GsIveo. The yards at Hog Island and
hartman and the Pusey G. Jones
plants are entirely idle
Business Notes.
NEW YORK. March 90. From
every section of the country reports
come that the railroad problem con-
tinues an unsettling factor in the
general business situation. Wage
conferences in progress east and west
are being watched with keenest in
terest. although II generally is ex-
pected that the reductions proposed
oy the roads will be refused. In the
meantime complaint comes from every
quarter that high freight rates ar.
retarding trade.
PHILADELPHIA. March %. Nor
tnan usual interest is taken here In
the plant democracy plan Of Armour
4 Co., announced from Chicago. be
cause OF the fact that the scheme il
patterned after the one in force in
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany. Under this plan an equal mum
Der OF employees is appointed IL
serve on board with company of
ficials to adjust wages. hours o
work, etc.
The plan has been successful,
operated here for several years.
NEW YORK. March 2s-The dis
missal here of profiteering case
against Armour & Co. and the hi:
retail firm Of Gimbel Bros. rs a fore
runner to similar action to be takel
| by representatives of the Department
of Justice wherever cases of thi;
| character are pending. The recen;
decision of the United States Suprem.
Court. declaring the Lever act un
! constitutional. has made the dis
missals necessary.
| CHICAGO. March 23.-Frequent and
| radical style changes as a means o.
( stimulating trade are frowned upon
| by the better merchants here II H.
| said that a number Of manufacturers
have suggested this course as a
means of restoring sales to normal
They have figured that slight fuctu-
ations in style would enable women
to wear their older clothes with sat
isfaction and confidence, whereas a
| radical shift would compel new pur-
chases all along the line