Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-27
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

654 wage-earners were. killed in the
United States.
Not more than 10 per cent OF the
international Laundry Workers union
members are unemployed.
More than 1900 workers were EN-
ployed In the Canadian lumber In
dustry during 1919.
International congress of transport
workers In Geneva voted to support
striking British miners.
The Springfield coal mine at Tay-
loryllle, ILL.,, and the mine at Stoning-
ton were sealed for lack of orders.
Three hundred employees of Altoona
pa h Logan Valley Electric rail-
way offered TO accept ) cents an hour
cut.
The bricklayers and masons union
OF Brazil. Ind, voted unanimously TO
accept n wage cut from LIS TO 81
an hour.
Officials and employees of Detroit
United Railway disagreed in confer
ence ON company's order to cut wages
20 to % per cent.
Master printers of eastern Canada
said they would declare open shops IL
printers strike for more wages and
less hours.
Senate Interstate commerce COM
mlttee will investigate deportation OF
union officials from Harrison, Ark.
during railroad strike there.
The international congress of trans
port workers passed resolution call
ing for the maintenance of the eight
hour day and exhorting workers OF
all countries to resist by every means
attempts by capitalists" to exceed
this limit.
President Bierd of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad company ordered the
car repair shops at Bloomington, ILL.,.
closed until June |. This throws 1000
men out of employment. Bierd says
the action is necessary until wages
are reduced.
Federal prison workshops are TO be
placed upon basis that will afford
conyicts chance to win bonus
for their industry. The federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga, Is to have the first
"humanizing" experiment Attorney
General Daugherty said.
The Amalgamated Association of |
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has pur-
chased n three-story building in Pitts |
burgh which will be used for office
purposes. They will also install I
printing plant and issue a paper her /
aiding the doings of the organization. |
The New Bedford (Mass.) Spinning |
company, closed for the last six |
months, resumed operations on a
weekly schedule of As hours. The |
plant has 25,000 spindes and employs |
1900 hands, engaged chiefly in the
manufacture of tire yarns.
Reductions of from % to so cents
In daily wages for mine workers were
announced by the Copper Queen and
Calumet and Arizona Mining COM
panies Bsbee, Ariz. Salaried en-
ployes will be affected by reduc-
tion 10 per cent above base pay.
Twenty-six thousand persons are at
the point of starvation In the coal
fields of Northern Alabama, Gov.
Thomas #. Kilby was told in an
appeal by the Salvation Army. Con-
dItions in the mining district, II was
explained. grew out of the strike of
mine workers. which continued several
months.
Stove shop molders throughout the
United States have agreed to Is
per cent wage reduction. The new
day rate will be S605 for eight hours.
The molders work, however, for the
most part On piece work, and have
been making from $40 to S14 day.
They figure they will make from IS
TO $l1 day under the new scale.
Following strike of 900 female
workers of the Yuen Fong SILK Fila
| ture, Shanghai. China, an increase in
wages for a twelve-hour day Of from
20 cents to 80 cents was granted by
the management and the strike ended.
Wage payments in Chinese plants in
Shanghai are based on the Mexican
dollar valuation.
The plant of the Bigelow Hartford
Carpet company, Thompsonyille. Conn.,,
closed since March Ia as the result
of the refusal of the 200 employees
10 accept a wage reduction. was re-
opened The strikers have been out
since Feb. 2s in resistance TO an an
nounced wage cut of 20 per cent, but
in meeting OF the tapestry work
ers' union the union committee stated
that the cut in that department meant
a reduction of from 35 to IS per cent,
In wages.
Members of the United Leather
Workers of America. local No. /,
by vote OF SS4 to 1SS, decided
against the proposition of the state
board of arbitration that they return
to work at the National Calfskin
company, Peabody. Mass.
At Huntington, w. Va, five men.
charged with violating federal court
injunction restraining them from In
terfering with the operation of certain
Mingo county coal mines. were found