Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-18
OTHER Labor ITEMS

males employed In the various indus
trial plants.
Massachusetts manufactures about
Al per cent of the boots and shoes
used throughout the world.
Eighty-five per cent of the building
trades workers in Canada are mem
bers of the international unions.
Short time is soon 10 go into force
In the British government dockyards
and other government establishments.
A special dispatch from Stockholm
reports that the saw mills workmen In
Sweden, numbering $4,000, intend to
stop work.
The United States senate voted a
$40 annual bonus TO government EN-
ployees, including navy yard workers
and arsenal employees.
The Weypoyset company of Central
Falls, N. Y, announced that a night
shift would be run In their warding
and spinning departments. employ
ing $50.
The British Shipbuilders' federation
has asked the trade unions to consent
to % per cent reduction In wages.
Employers In other trades also are
discussing the necessity of reducing
wages.
The eighty teachers In the New
Westminster schools tB. Co failed to
appear for duty following an an
nouncement of the school board that
there would be no further increases In
salaries.
That business is rapidly approach
Ing "A normal stage was evidenced
when the Cambria Steel company,
Johnstown. Pa, announced the reopen
ing of number of departments closed
since December.
The limestone quarries of the Jones
K Laughlin Steel company, of Pitts
burgh. at Blairton. near Marnnsburg,
w. Va. closed for an indefinite period.
The plant which employs about $50
men, closed on account of lack of bus
mess.
A shutdown of the Grand Trunk rail-
road shops ut Port Huron, Mich, has
been ordered. The order affects 450
employees. A force of $50 men was
employed in the shops two months
ago. Stagnant business Is the cause
given.
The Furness tEngland) iron mas
ters and representatives of the mems
union have met and the latter decided
| TO accept reduction of wages from
and pence day. SO that work may
| be resumed in the iron mines.
! The general committees of the con-
| ductors, brakemen and swltchmen on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail-
road have signed up what is declared
to be the most satisfactory agreement
In years on working conditions. The
wage agreement is separate
Nearly 500 small manufacturers OF
| waists and dresses in New York re
/ sumed operations when $4,000 of the
/ $4,000 union needle workers who went
on strike to enforce standardized con-
ditions in the garment industry, re-
turned to their work.
Farm hands will not be paid more
than $50 to $45 per month this year
In central Illinois, according to farm
ers. This will include board and wash
Ing. The wartime scale of ST5 to 500
is gone forever, assert the agricul-
turists. Help must accept the reduced
scale or remain idle, say the en-
ployers.
A prolonged fight is threatened In
the raipcoat Industry of Boston with
the refusal of the workers TO accept
changed conditions which they say In
volve an open shop and a 40 per cent
reduction in wages. Manufacturers
have announced their intention TO re-
place the former piece work system
with weekly wage schedules.
Announcement has been made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad company in
Chicago that approximately 1000
skilled mechanics In the locomotive
and car repair shops will be returned
to work The shops have been closed
since January 20. The opening is due
to plling up of heavy repairs. The
men to be reemployed are all skilled
mechanics with wage scales varying
from So TO IS day.
Wages of 5000 metal trade workers
In New Orleans viii be reduced ten
per cent March 10, according 10
Thomas Killeen, chairman of the ad.
justment committee of the employers
No question of unionism or open shop
was involved. II was stated.
Notice was given the $50 employees
of the Durham Mills. Inc. Naugatuck
Conn. makers of WOODEN knitted goods
that the carding and spinning depart
ments would resume at once on full
time. The entire plant. after two
months idleness, is expected to bt
running soon.