Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

has been settled. Conditions were
not revealed.
Employees of the Northern Paper
mills, Green Bay. Wis, numbering
about 500, walked out in protest
against a 20 per cent wage reduction.
The Trip Manufacturing company.
Allegan. Mich, resumed operations.
The plant which manufactures auto
mobile parts and accessories, had been
closed four months.
As protest against a 20 per cent
wage cut on March more than loo
workmen of the Canadian Steel COM
pany mt Tongue Point, Quebec, went
on strike.
Despite % per cent reduction In
labor costs and an 10 per cent recess
sion In building commodity prices, gen.
eral construction work Is at a stand
still In the Northwest.
Hugo SHINES, Germany's coal and
shipping magnate, locked out 1000
workmen who refused to launch the
latest SHINES ship because 1t was
christened the "Tirpltz."
Organized bricklayers and plaster
ers of Mobile, Ala, voluntarily reduced
their wages from $40 to So day.
giving as the reason the reduction In
cost of living.
Twenty-four coal mines are closed
and 5000 miners are Idle as result OF
the failure to reach an agreement on
a proposed wage reduction Of % per
cent, according to Seattle dispatch.
At Des Moines, Iowa, strike-break-
ers and striking iron moulders en-
gagged I'm brief battle IN which sew
eral shots were exchanged and bricks
thrown. No one was seriously Injured.
More than two thousand employees
of the Ford Motor Car company, De-
trolt, have been rehired. An official
stated there were about thirty-five
thousand workers now back on their
Jobs.
Notice of reduction In wages of 9TH
er than unskilled laborers, effective
April 10. was issued at the general
managers Office of the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and st. Louis rail-
way company.
At meeting of the night crews OF
the st. Joseph, (Mo.,) Street Railway
company, 1t was unanimously voted
to accept the company's reduced
wage scale, against which they had
protested.
Police have been stationed in the
Michelin factories, Turin, Italy, where
the workers have been locked out.
This action was taken because of acts
of violence committed by the work
erS.
The railroad strike situation be-
tween Monterey and San Luis Potosi.
where several bridges have been
burned and tracks destroyed, appar-
emily by strikers, Is described as seri-
Gus by travellers arriving in Mexico
City from Laredo, Tex.
With two exceptions, a revised wage
scale averaging 10 per cent went into
effect at Holyoke, Mass, among the
paper makers OF the city and allied
crafts. Though negotiated by the
American Writing Paper company the
numerous Independent mills have
adopted the revision, including the
American Tissue mills,
Irving Crane, executive secretary OF
the National Association of Clothiers
and of the Clothing Manufacturers
association of New York, announced
plans for the erection of n tive-story
clothing factory. which he said would
house several New York clothing con-
Germs that would move to Springfield,
| Mass.
The Boston & Albany railroad post
ed notices of prospective wage re-
auctions TO 1900 employees. including
clerks and mechanics of classes cor
responding in general to those affected
| by similar announcements by other
| New England roads. The notice said
the reductions would be effective
April 10.
Financed entirely by the various
unions and number of individual
members in the union, the new Port
land (Ore.) Labor temple will soon
be ready for occupancy. The total
cost of the building is given as s2T5,.
600. A large auditorium capable OF
seating $500 people. IA smaller as
sembly halls, and Al business Offices
take up the FIVE floors of the struc-
ture.
Unemployment In the larger Illinois
cities has now reached the point where
261 men are applying for every 100
jobs offered. according 10 unofficial
figures from the state employment Of
fees. In Chicago the average is 31s
men for every 100 Jobs.
At Chlcopee, Mass, the Fisk Rub
Der company. which has been operat.
| ing on q three-day schedule since De-
cember 1, resumed full time and a
wage reduction on both day and piece
work was put into effect which
amounts TO an average Of 10 per cent
About 1900 employees are affected.