Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-09
6,0l|0lMEN TO HELP
MANAGE BUSINESS
Other Plants Announce Wage
Cuts-Savage Arms Com
pany Reopens.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. January S.-A plan
whereby 5000 employees of the Com
monwealth- Edison Company would
share in the management of the COM
pany. which supplies electricity for
Chicago and suburbs, was announced
today by Samuel insult. president.
An industrial relations department
has been formed. to which representa-
tivee will be elected by the employees
and by the management to form a
joint council to settle all disputes,
Mr. insult said.
Mr.. insult is also president of the
Peoples Gas Light and Coke Com
pany, which adopted a similar plan
recently.
Detroit Auto Outlook Brighter.
DETROIT Mich, January s-A be-
ginning of industrial revival in De-
troit was noted during the past week
in a survey of conditions made today
by George W. Grant, secretary of the
Employers Association. Approximate
ly 5000 men have been put back to
work. and indications are that grad
ual. though probably a slow, improve
ment will continue until the automo-
bile industry has reached its normal
activity. Mr.. Grant said. He added
that manufacturers here generally eX-
pect the end of the slump in retail
business to follow the annual auto
mobile shows. now about to open.
The Liberty Motor Company today
announced that se> eral hundred addi-
tional men would be taken on Janu-
Afy II, and that the force would be
gradually increased, while unofficial
report was that the Continental
Motors plant would reopen in some
departments next Monday.
The Dodge plant, it is said, is held
in readiness to resume operations
within a week should 1t be decide4 to
open. While a notice posted at the
Ford plant says 1t will not reopen
this month, there are reports that the
suspension may not be for that long
a time. At the Ford plant prepara-
tons are being made for the pay
which amounts to approximately So
100000.
Pay Cuts Men Laid OF.
MINNEAPOLIS. January s.-Shop
employees of the Minneapolis, St Paul
and Sau,t Ste. Marie railroad here have
been placed on a five-day week. Ed
mund Pennington. president, said to-
At the same time. w. H. Bremen.
president of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad. said 1850 employees
had been laid of by that company
over the entire system since Septem-
Der 1.
Wages Cut In n. r. Repair Shops.
BUCYRUS. Ohio. January S.-To-
1edo and Ohio Central railroad Off
cials today announced an immediate
reduction of approximately 35 per
cent in the locomotive repair forces
and As per cent in the car repair
forces on that system. One hundred
and sixty-two men have been laid off
in the local shops and a total Of 275
on the entire system.
Savage Arms Plant to Reopen.
UTICA. N. Y. January S.-The Saw
age Arms plant in this city will re-
sumo operations Monday after being
shut down a month. The force will
be about the usual pre-war compile
ment. There will be no change in
wages, but the employees will be on a
nino-hour basis instead of eight
hour. The plant is engaged in max
ing sporting rifles and goods.
Park Employees Given Cut.
NEW YORK. January Savage re-
auctions in conformity with the
general trend toward lower price
levels" were announced today by the
Bronx parkway commission. Wages
OF laborers were reduced from IS to
u day: Eoremen. mechanics and
auto truck, drivers also were reduced
81 per day. -
Singer Plant Reduces Pay,
CAIRO, Ill.,, January 8.-A general
wage reduction of 25 per cent, effec-
tive Monday, was announced at the
veneer mills OF the Singer Manufac-
turing Company today. Business de-
preston was given as the cause of
the reduction. Normally about 500
persons are employed at the mills