Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-05-26
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

During the period Of the war 1885,
654 wage-earners were killed In the
United States.
Not more than 10 per cent Of the
International Laundry Workers union
members are unemployed.
More than $4,000 workers were pm.
ployed in the Canadian lumber in
dustry during 1919.
International congress Of transport
workers in Geneva voted to support
striking British miners.
The Springfield coal mine at Tay-
lOrville, Ill, and the mine at Stoning-
ton were sealed for lack Of orders.
Three hundred employees of Altoona
(Pa.) & Logan Valley Electric rail-
way offered to accept cents an hour
cut.
The bricklayers and masons' union
of Brazil, Ind, voted unanimously to
accept wage cut from 1.25 to 81
an hour.
officials and employees of Detroit
United Railway disagreed in confer
ence on cOmpany's order to cut wages
20 to % per cent
Master printers Of eastern Canada
said they would declare open shops If
printers strike for more wages and
less hours.
Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee will investigate deportation Of
union oGlcials from Harrison, Ark,
during railroad strike there.
The international congress Of trans
port workers passed e. resolution call
ing for the maintenance Of the eight
hour day and exhOrting workers Of
all countries to resist by every means
attempts by capitalists" to exceed
this limit.
President Bisrd of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad company ordered the
car repair shops at Bloomington, H.,
closed until June /. This throws 1900
men out of employment Bisrd says
the action is necessary until wages
are reduced.
Federal prison workshops are to be
placed upon a basis that will afford
convicts a chance to win bonus
for their industry. The federal prison
at Atlanta, Ca, is to have the ArBt
"humanizing" experiment Attorney
General Daugherty said.
The Amalgamated Association Of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has pur-
chased a three-story building in Pitts
burgh which will be used for Office
purposes. They will also install a
printing plant and issue a paper her
aiding the doings Of the organization
The New Bedford (Mass.) Spinning
company, closed for the last six
months, resumed operations on a
weekly schedule OF 48 hours. The
plant has $4,000 spindles and employs
$500 hands, engaged chiefly in the
manufacture Of tire yarns.
Reductions of from % to 80 cents
in daily wages for mine workers were
announced by the Copper Queen and
Calumet and Arizona Mining COM
panIes, Bisbee. Ariz. Salaried en-
ployes will be affected by a reduc-
tion to per cent above base pay.
Twenty-six thousand persons are at
the point Of starvation in the coal
fields of Northern Alabama, Gov.
Thomas e. KiIby was told in an
appeal by the Salvation Army. Con-
ditions in the mining district, 1t was
explained, grew out of the strike Of
mine workers, which continued several
months.
Stove shop molders throughout the
United States have agreed to a Is
per cent wage reduction. The new
day rate win be $6.O5 for eight hours
The molders work, however, for the
most part on piece work, and have
been making from $40 to &14 day,
They figure they will make from So
to $11 day under the new scale.
Following a strike Of 300 female
workers Of the Yuen Fong Silk Fila.
ture, Shanghai, China, an increase in
wages for a twelve-hour day Of from
20 cents to 80 cents was granted by
the management and the strike ended
Wage payments In Chinese plants In
Shanghai are based on the Mexican
dollar valuation.
The plant of the BigelOw Hartford
Carpet company, Thompsonyille, Conn.
closed since March IA as the result
Of the refusal of the 2,200 employees
to accept a wage reduction, was re
opened. The strikers have been ou
since Feb. % in resistance to an an
nouneed wage cut Of 20 per cent, bu
in a meeting of the tapestry work
ers' union the union committee stateC
that the cut in that department mean
a reduction Of from 85 to SS per cent
In wages.
Members of the United Leathe
Workers of America, local No. ]
By vote of SS4 to 1s9, decide,
against the proposition of the stat
board Of arbitration that they returl
to work at the National Calfskil
company, Peabody, Mass.
At Huntington, W. Va, i've mer
charged with violating a federal cour
injunction restraining them from fl
! terfering with the operation Of certai