Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-07-01
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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In 1856.
The sugar industry of Bulgaria Is
limited to the production of beet
sugar.
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph company employs a quarter OF
a million people.
About $4,000 women are employed
by 1924 big firms in the iron. steel
and other Industries In the United
| States.
The New York board Of education
operates textile school which
teaches courses for employees in the
silk trade
The first break In the ranks OF the
| British miners occurred when six
thousand Shropshire miners returned
to the pits.
| Wages of wooden mill operatives
| In New Zealand have been increased
about 85 per cent for men and % per
cent for women. i.
The German Federation of Miners
has voted 2,5OO.O00 marks for the
assistance of the striking coal miners
In Great Britain.
Union bricklayers and stone masons,
of Montreal accepted 10 per cent
reduction in wages, terminating a
strike OF six weeks duration.
All wage-earners are now admitted
to the Boston Central Labor union IT.
respective of their American FEEDER
| r
The New York newspaper photo-en-
gravers' strike was settled when the
publishers and engravers signed an
agreement to negotiate a new wage
contract.
The conductors and motormen on
the Evansville (Ind.) street car lines
and the Evansville and Princeton
traction lines have had their wages
reduced IS per cent
The strike of 200 employees of
Price Brothers Paper mills ended at
Quebec when the men accepted 20
per cent wage reduction. Open-shop
conditions now obtain.
At the Missouri Pacific shops, Sc
dalla, Mo-, So per cent more of the
working force of the shops were put
back to work. Forty per cent of the
shop employees have already been
taken back, and the new increase will
make 70 per cent of the working force
that has been put to work again.
The New Jersey Building Trades
! association, In session at Atlantic
City. criticized the advocacy of low
err wage scale by the New Jersey
chamber of commerce and the Manu-
facturers' Association of New Jersey
One speaker declared that members OF
the building crafts were united in op
: posing wage reductions at present.
Sixty boulevard sprinklers, two gar
bage handlers and 20 transfers in the
employ of the city of Great Falls
Mont, struck as a result of decision
OF the city council to cut wages OF
transfers and garbage handlers to So
, boulevard ahorers to $3.50 and sprink
: lers to 81 The Federal Labor union
? an organization of unskilled labor
named committee to confer with the
city council to offer a compromise o.
1 50-cent cut instead of the 81 cut
\ given common labor.
I Wages of city laborers and team
sters Of Brockton, Mass, increased L
months ago. viii revert to the seal,
n In effect in 1918. as result Of tenn
5 porary injunction served on the cit,
l. treasurer. Ton taxpayers asserted
|. that the higher wages had been paiC
without legal authority, in petition
= which resulted In the issuance OF tn,
r injunction by the Supreme court. Tn,
i workmen have been receiving 6S cent!
). an hour as against the former rat,
of $3.50 a day.
Twenty-Five hundred strikers VIII,
have quit work in railroad shops a
Cairo, Egypt. have been summarily dis
missed, and even If reinstated. will
: lose their seniority rights. The gen
. eral strike which has been threatene,
has not materialized as yet
= The vigorous military preparation
n of the Argentine government appeare,
to have broken the backbone of tn
general strike movement. There >ar
5 indications that the strong measure
It have given severe setback to trad
unionism. The strike of harbor work
ers continues.