The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
100000 LESS MEN ARE EMPLOYED AS
 PLANTS RE0PENED
By Associated Press

Detroit, January 5.--"Despite the fact that several Detroit automobile plants reopened yesterday after inventory they did so with vastly decreased forces and 100000 fewer men are em- ployed here now than was the case two weeks ago" George w. Grant secretary of the Employers associa- tion of Detroit, said today. "A net in crease of only 1000 men have been added to the working forces of the factories in the past rev days Grant stated surveys concluded to- day showed only about 50,00e. auto mobile workers employed in Detroit at |, present. In normal times the number ! employed here is about 100000, MT Grant asserted. The closing of the Ford and Dodge factories here have l swelled the number of unemployed during the past two weeks, he said.
 The plants here that have reopened l this week made only start Grant 1 said in answering rumors that the n- dustrial situation was brghtening l here.
 l The association secretary refused to predict when local factoriesi would l take back a large number of men, al- though he said that months would be required to bring the industry back to | normal
 Rumors that the Ford plant was to reopen this week were denied by com pany officials, who said that there men had been told the factories pfob
 ably would be idle for the remainder of the month.
 Baltimore January 5-More than
 19,0e0 members of the tf0 locals af
 fliated with the Baltimore Federation
 of Labor are unemployed. according to l I, r1a ali md of ,n federation.
 New York, January 4-All employees of the American Smelting and Rein"
 ing company who are paid less than ls5,0o0 a year were notified today that. } beginning this week, their salaries will
 be re .uced 15 per cent. The company also announced that there would be no bonus for employees this year. , Cumberland, Mir, January 5.-The N , and G. Taylor company tinplate man
 ufacturers, employing about 700 hands
 today announced a cut of from 10 tc
 20 per cent in wages effective upon re l sumption. The plant closed down sev- : eral weeks ago because of industria depression.
 Il Chicago, January 5.--Neary 50 pc : cent of the garment workers in tn, , 1 Chicago market are idle, M M. Holtz : secretary, told delegates of the Inter
 national Association of Clothing De l signers in convention here today. , Waiting by the American public fo . prices to decline in the clothing in $ dustry, MT. Hotz said, was responsible [ for the situation.
 < Salt Lake City, January 5.-Bric :, masons employed by the Utah Fire t clay company, which employees sev 7 eral hundred men, have asked the com ? Ipany to reduce their wages from s1 < to sS day. according to announce . 1 ment today by Lawrence Green. man . ager.
 1 Shreveport. La, January 5.--A vol n untary cut in wages of from s9 to 5 e a day has been agreed to by unio Il carpenters employed on two building y being erected here at a cost of 1000 l. 900. Other union carpenters have no e authorized wage reductions. Tn n wages of laborers working on the tw ss buildings in question will be cut 1
 cents an hour.
 d Hutchinson, Kan, January 5.-Tf IT Larabee flour mills in Hutchinson a closed for more than a week, will re
 open in a week or 10 days, Ashb
 Woodson, manager, announced today
 The closing was due to lack Ne orders. MT, Woodson said