Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-24
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Southern Pacif1c railroad announcer
20 per cent wage reduction for 10000,
effective June /.
Dippers went out on strike at East
Liverpool, Ohio. threatening tieup Of
pottery industry.
Arbitration halted strike of $500
employees of Eastern Massachusetts,
Railway company.
Twenty-nIne local unions In Del
aware have formed the Delaware
State Federation of Labor.
The Winchester Arms company plant
at New Haven, Conn. has increased
Its working force by $500.
The average wages of women In
dustrIal workers In Wisconsin has In
creased nearly so per cent In the last
two years.
Wages of wooden mill operatives In
New Zealand have been increased
about 65 per cent for men and 53 per
cent for women.
Male workers in the shirt factories
in Glasgow, Scotland. receive from 40
to AZ cents an hour while the female
workers get from 10 to % cents On
hour.
The average yearly salary Of United
States government employees Is ST.
176, exclusive of the $40 year
bonus which many Of the employees
receive.
The pulp and paper mills in Canada
employed 26,765 persons in 1919 and
paid to them $50 1923, 7S9, all but $4,-
69O.670 of this sum going to wage
earners.
An average of 3S5O00 employees in
Pennsylvania are constantly ILL., &C
cording to statistics compiled by the
Pennsylvania Health Insurance COM
mission.
Australian miners are prohibited
from doing certain amount of work
In order to prevent an accumulation
OF coal reserve, which would neces-
sarily cause them to lose much time.
The three cooperative stores owned
and managed by members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in st. Louis have been closed on ac-
count of inexperienced management
and strong competition.
Headquarters of the Great Northern
railway announced that every shop on
its system, except two. would be closed
from May 81 to July 5. More than 1900
men are affected. Light traffic Is the
raosop for the shutdown
Between January and June, 1920,
nearly 100000 people throughout the
world took part In strikes. The to-
tai number of workdays lost was 114,-
S14,9S0. The largest number of work.
ers affected were in the mining In.
dustry.
In 1920 the COPS car men employed
by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
company produced revenue of $685..
100000 as against revenue of but
SIS, 100000 in 1910. when nearly 1,40C
more men, or a total of 7,424 were
employed.
Members of the Zionists' organiza
ton in Pittsburg are forming mill
| lion-dollar corporation to develop In
dustries in Palestine. The industries
to be developed by the corporation In
clude glass foundries, limestone, brick
and machinery.
All of the trades unions of the Tri-
| Cities voted to take reduction In
wages, says Rockford (Ill) dispatch,
Masons will be reduced from SIPS per
hour to 81 per hour All other trades
whose scale was 81 per hour will here
after work for 90 cents.
Lawrence. Lynn and Brockton. three
of the most important industrial
flooded with radical Red literature
calling upon the workers to precipi-
tate revolution of violence to punish
the capitalistic class In America.
To facilitate the naturalization OF
the paper industry in Spain, IS fac
tories combined during the last year
with the object of organizing all
branches of the work. One depart.
ment of this organization undertakes
to supply the raw materials and dis.
| tflDutt them, diothtT 10 pTouuCt pa
per In bulk. and another to manufac-
ture it In all marketable forms. The
paper mills of the new organization
had a pre-war production of some TO-
600 tons. and although their output
was reduced in 1919 to 1000 tons.
their position in the worlds paper In.
dustry is now stronger than ever.
Two persons were killed and sever
al wounded in fighting at Buenos
Aires. Argentine. between union and
nonunion port workers. There were
two riots In which pistols were used,
as well as many brawls in which the
unionists and aonunionists fought with
| their fists.
Six thousand metal workers en-
ployed at the largest industrial plant
at Prague struck, claiming their en-
/ ployers were attempting to Introduce
changes in the existing legal status OF
/ organized labor. There is possibility
/ the strike may spread.