The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


laid off 5S5 shop employees.
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, have re-
sumed operations
The Star SILK Throwing company.
at Shamokin, Pa, and the Shamokin
SILK company resumed operations.
The revision of wages Of thousands
of laborers is contemplated by the
New York Central Railroad company,
effective April l.
Dundee (Scotlandl spinners and
manufacturers have laid claim be-
fore the Jute Trade board for a re-
duction of % per cent In workers
wages.
British coal mine owners have de-
cided to give two weeks notice OF
the termination of their ontract with
the miners. This means the miners will
be obliged TO make new contracts
without government intervention. 1t
also means the end Of wartime wages.
The labor situation In Bombay, In
dia, is still unsettled pending a deci-
100000 operatives, will take place.
Three thousand workmen In the Kohl
Moor mill are still out They have for
mulated their demands, but the en-
ployers have not yet considered them.
One dollar an hour for journeymen
plumbers and steamf1tters In Detroit.
effective May /, was agreed on by the
Michigan Master Plumbers and Steam
| filters association, Ii was announced
by John s. Irvine, associate president.
That rate is offered union and nom
union workers alike.
A compulsory conference called by
the director OF Australia's arbitration
| court has settled strike which ser1-
ously affected shipping for more than
two months Conditions OF the set
tlement included abandonment OF job
control and immediate commissioning
of all ships now tied up.
AT Ottawa, H., fires were started
In the ovens of new plate glass fac
tory. Most Of the other glass fac
tories of the section which suspended
last fall, will reopen soon. In most
plants there will be an average reduc-
tion in wages of Is per cent.
Wages of from $500 to $500 en-
ployees of Sears. Roebuck & Co.,
Chicago, have been reduced. The pay
of other employees will soon be
trimmed until wages are reduced to
the general level of the spring Of
1920, when the last increase in pay
was granted.
The Worcester (Mass.) Woolen Mill
company announces that II will begin
operating at full capacity as soon as
its working force can be increased to
its old size Of 300 hands. The plant
has been running several months with
a force of only 80 in manufacturing
heavy woolens.
reduction approximating 20 per
cent in the pay of all laborers Of the
Jones and Laughlin Steel company,
Pittsburgh, became effective March /.
Readjustments of the wages OF ton
mage men in conformity with the new
labor scale are to be made. The Jones
and Laughlin company employs In nor
NAL times about $4,000 men. The new
rate will be 81 cents an hour, the
present being 4S cents an hour.
Employers Of labor in the building
trades at Sioux Falls, s. D., have put
into effect new scale of wages, which
includes reduction for common labor
from IS cents to go cents an hour.
Thus far the reduction has had little
effect, for the reason that a compare
lively small amount OF building now is
being done In Sioux Falls, this being
the quiet time of year In the building
line
The Duplan Silk corporation and the
Louis Roessel Silk company, two Of
the largest plants In the Hazleton
Pa) district, announced 15 per
cent wage reduction.
The executive council Of the build
! Ing trades department of the American
Federation of Labor has gone on rec
ord as opposed to any wage reductions
In the building trades at this time. The
council took the position that while
the Wholesale prices Of food, clothing
and fuel had dropped. the decreases
had not been put into effect by the re-
| taIlers.
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