Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-08-05
OTHER LABOR NOTES

ipTllau JuhIlcH iIblu @,fbD III INV W
| S.02I,N1 In 1919.
Sllk mills IN the Paterson, n. j.,
district are now operating ut % per
cent OF normal.
Trade disputes In April caused the
loss of 2i,0OO000 work days to work
crs In Great Britain.
Employment decreased two per cent
IN New York state from April to May.
Railroad and street eur companies
employ nearly 2,O0o.000 men In the
United States.
The court Of appeals Of the District
of Columbia has upheld the constitu-
lionaity of the minimum wage law,
which has been in operation for the
past Two years.
Employees of the Detroit, Toledo <
lronton railroad will receive a mini
mum wage of SO per day for eight
!iears' work. The road is operated
only six days week.
After fight of more than three
nonths, the union carpenters OF Den
YER have agreed to accept wage cut
Of 81 day The cut was ordered by
the state Industrial commission, but
vas Mt first rejected by the carpen-
ters and other unions. Bricklayers
md plasterers are still holding out.
Labor turnover for 1920 In Japan
was even greater than In January, the
figures showing that the number of
III.
in 1919 to l165000. In 1919 the mum
Der of persons employed exceeded the
number dismissed by 800; In 1920
the number dismissed exceeded the EN-
nloyed by 213.90O.
Judge Frank Irvine OF Ithaca, N. T.,
former public service commissioner, ac-
ccpted appointment rs seventh MEM
| Der OF the board or arbitration to set
| lie the strike Of paper and pulp max
| ers. Three members of the board were
named by the unions and three by the
| paper manufacturers and Judge Irvine
was selected by these six.
Although the number of mine work
! rs In France naturally varied great,
! /, from month to month as q result
| i. conditions brought about by the
W. The following figures are fairly
a,r,tiate. They include both under
| Ground and surface workers: 1913.
| 1stHO; 1919. 100000: 1915 1l7,0o0:
nl7, iG7,5oo; 1918. 16S,5o0; 1919,
l13.s00.
The Mlllyille tMass) plant OF the
| Noonsocket Rubber company, foot
| wear division of the United States
Rubber company reopened July IL,
| after shutdown of six months. About
100 of the 700 employees were given
| work nj once The wages scheduled
will he the same us that at the Woon-
| .rcket plant. where two reductions
lave been made since the Millyille
plant was closed.
Employment conditions in and
| around Springfield. Mass, are slightly
/ better than they We're six weeks ago.
| according to tabulation submitted by
II Of the largest Industrial plants in
| the district. The plants manufac-
| tire wide range OF products. Under
normal conditions the factories employ
| u total of 1884 workers. or 69.2 per
cent of the total The majority of
| the plants do not anticipate any fur
Their curinilment over the present
schedule
| ]. IL. Thomas, the greatest leader
of labor In England both In and out
| of parliament, began work at three
shillings for 12-hour day as loco
| motive cleaner. and such he was for
four or i've years. For five years he
worked as a fireman, 10 hours day,
FOR "a Shillings week He burned
the midnight oil. and was mayor of
his town before he reached the posi-
ton OF engine driver at - shillings
per week. Now the king. the prime
minister and parliament seek his adj
wee and knowledge.
About 2,00O men in Hagerstown. Md,
were affected by the railroad wage re-
duetion, as ordered by the United
States labor board. About 900 men
are now working In the western Mary
land railway shops In Hagerstown.
about 200 being employed ar normal
times. There are seven other shops
on the western Maryland system, and
these, with the road force. total about
5000 men under ordinary conditions.
The Cumberland Valley division of
dle Pennsylvania system has about 300
Employees In this city and the Balti.
more & Ohio less than hundred men
employed.
The American Locomotive company
expects to resume operations at its
Schenectady and Montreal plants In a
week or so. The Schenectady plant
! will I'LL an order for so engines for
China, taken recently, while the Mon
treal plant has several small orders on
hand.