Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-20
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Factories producing passenger auto
mobiles now number 135 In the United
States.
Australia has more females than
males employed In the various indus
trial plants.
Furniture workers In Wakefield,
Mass, will receive a bonus of from l
to 5 per cent.
The embroidery industry Of the Is
land of Madeira employs more than
10000 women.
The average wage Of the New Eng
land millworker under the new wage
scale will be $21 a week.
Massachusetts manufactures about
AZ per cent of the boots and shoes
used throughout the world.
The percentage of unemployment
among nonunion workers Is always
higher than among union members.
Sixty-four railroad companies in the
! United States have reduced their
forces by 100000 men since Septem-
Der ], 1920.
Fourteen cities were making favor
able progress toward forty-four hour
week, 1t was announced at the Mis-
souri, Typographical conference.
Men employed In the repair shops OF
a Mexico City tramway company
called strike because of the COM
pany's decision to reduce the hours OF
work.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Stockyards
company posted notice Of reduction
In the wages of all yard employees of
per cent, effective May Is. Two hum
dred men are affected.
The governments low-wage policy
is said to be driving some Of Its finest
scientific. technical. and professional
men out Of the federal service and
into private employment.
The Lawrence (Mass.) Master Build
ers' association voted to inaugurate an
open-shop policy at wage of SIS cents
an hour. Three thousand mechanics
refused to accept 20 per cent reduc-
ton In wnges which became effective
on April /.
Calumet and Hecla copper mine an
nounced a 25 per cent cut In wages.
The mine was recently shut down, but
considerable number of men are still
on the payroll, including pumpmen,
millmen, smelter men and employees
of power plant.
Charles Il. Wilson. vice president In
charge of the willys-Overland Inter-
ests Mt Toledo, Ohio, announced that
the plant Is now on a full time sched-
ule and will continue to operate on
that basis. The working force has
been brought up to 5000 men, says
Wilson. who expects to bring It to
1000 by the end of April.
Benefting approximately 10000
women and children, bill extending
the 4S-hour law to employees of mo-
ton picture houses. women elevator
operators land private telephone ex-
change operators. and women en-
ployees in laundrles, hotels. hairdress-
ing and manicure parlors. has been
signed by the governor Of Massachu-
sets.
Eight hundred carpenters in wo-
burn, Reading, Stoneham, Winchester,
Wakefield. Lexington and Melrose.
Mass, resumed work after strike
of two months. The men who quit
work because of wage cut of 10
cents an hour TO 9o-cent rate went
, back under temporary award of 95
cents an hour. made by Mayor Ber-
nard j. Golden of Woburn, acting as
arbitrator.
Two of the railroad brotherhoods,
Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, notified the
general managers committee Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company that
they had declined to Join conductors
. and trainmen's brotherhoods in sub
hitting the proposed wage reductions
, TO the joint reviewing committee of the
road instead of to the United States
labor board.
! Service on the Scranton and Bing-
hamton railway. operating between
| Scranton and Montrose, Pa, was tied
/. up by a strike of its $50 employees
against 12h per cent wage reduc-
, ton. Light and power. which is fur
, nished to towns and farms along the
: line by the company, was also cut
off. The company has refused TO ar
bitrate unless assured that the deci.
sion would carry wage reduction.
Reduction of 20 per cent in salaries
Of officials and employees paid on 9TH
er than daily basis was announced
by the Utah. Ray. Chino and Nevada
Copper companies, which recently sus-
pended operations. The decrease be-
came effective May l.
More than 600 delegates from the
, United States will attend the interna-
tional trade conference TO be held In
Mexico City in June, II was announced
by members of the Mexican delegation
which has been touring the United
States In the interests Of the confer
ence.