Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-22
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The monon railroad shops Mt Lafay-
cite, Ind, closed indefinitely March "a.
At meeting of the directors of the
Inspiration Consolidated Copper COM
pany 1t was decided to shut down.
The Riverside plant of the National
Tube company at Benwood, w. Va,
suspended operations, making $500
idle.
The Westinghouse Air brake COM
pany announced reduction In wages
of 10 per cent affecting all except sal
aired employees, effective April 1.
Two hundred thousand textile, shoe
and metal workers have been locked
out by their employers In the Maal
(Denmark) district as result of labor
troubles.
Eight sheet mills at the plant of the
Whitaker-Glessner company, Ports
mouth, Ohio, will resume April 3. The
mills have been idle for several
months.
The chamber of commerce In Clio
versville, N. Y, has taken up the I'M
employment problem and will act as
clearing house to provide relief for the
many who are out of work.
Health service In industry and the
economic value of medical inspection
of workers have proved so satisfactory
In the experience of American manu-
facturers that IL has become an integral
part of the organization.
The state highway department of
Pennsylvania during the 1920 construc-
tion season built approximately 41O
miles of concrete roadway, Is feet
wide. This is worlds record for one
season for this type of roadway.
An additional cut In the shop forces
employed by the Union Pacific at
Omaha was announced, bringing the
total number of shop members down
to 1000. as compared to 100 before
the road started to make reductions.
Wages per hour during the summer
1910 and nearly two and one-half
times those In 1913. according to index
figures of the bureau of labor statis-
tics showing wages per hour from $40
to 1920.
The American Federation of Labor,
through its representatives, will intro
duce at the next session of congress a
bill providing for the exemption of la
Dor unions from prosecution under "all
INSTRUMENTATION mad so-called con-
spiracy laws"
Continuing the practice of wage re-
duction the Bangor & Aroostook rail-
road announced cut effective on
April 16 and applying TO all employees
who were included In the increase
granted under the decision of the Rail-
road Labor board last May.
The Illinois Central railroad an
nounced that new scale of wages, APP
proximating reduction of % per cent,
would become effective April II. 1t in
cludes all section and roundhouse labor
and freight handlers, truckers. watch
men and janltors. Employees say they
will oppose the cut.
The amalgamation of various trade
uuiunS INTO lthSIuilbls, Tic luSluiiS VI
local interests into the larger combina-
| tlon of the labor party from a political
standpoint and the formation of COM
prehensive trade union congress. with
a membership of 6,000,000, made the
year 1920 noteworthy in the annals of
British organized labor.
Wage reductions ranging from S]s
TO 1914 cents per hour proposed by
the Delaware, LackawanIa & West
ern railway for approximately 1900
unskilled laborers, were unqualifiedly
rejected by the union representatives
of the workers.
officials of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany announced that after a ten-day
shutdown, operations would be re-
sumed at the Clarion plant, Pitts
| burgh. Three thousand men returned
TO work in the blast and open hearth
departments and In the 20-inch and
2S-inch mills.