Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-24
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

There are 90 paper and pulp mills
In the entire Dominion of Canada.
The Boston building trades are now
working under open shop conditions.
As late as March "a, there were In
England 1,414,0OO people registered as
being unemployed.
The various government depart
ments In Great Britain employ total
of 10s,s07 women.
One out of every six people en-
ployed In gainful operations in Ireland
are now unemployed
Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia
was once coal miner employed In a
mine at Gilberton. Pa.
Wages In the building trades at VAN
couver, b. c.. are to be reduced on an
average Of IL per cent.
st. Louis is the fourth city in the
United States to favor the eight-hour-
day for municipal flremen.
Independent advices received here
from Petrograd confirm reports that
the strikes In that city are spreading.
A labor university Is to be construct
ed In Brussels. Belgium, which will
unite the 25 professional schools scat
tered around Brussels.
The locomotive department of the
Great Northern railroad shops at Hill
| yard. which adjoihs Spokane, will be
closed from May % to July 5, company
officials announced.
The clothing manufacturers of
| Rochester, N. Y. claim to be the first
in the United States to abolish home
work or, as II is more commonly called,
the sweatshop system.
The strike of dock laborers, sailors
and stewards at Antwerp continues,
but Is not hindering vessels from
clearing as usual. The Lapland sailed
with British crew and stewards re-
cruited from among Polish emigrants.
The Clarksburg CIV. va.) plant of
the National Carbon company will
! suspend operations indefinitely July
l, 1t was announced. Lack of orders
is given as the reason, the plant having
lately been operating at onequarter
capacity.
That unemployment Is decreasing Is
Indicated In the report of the Family
Welfare society OF Boston, showing
that, of the number of new cases com
ing under 1t in April, 100 were trace
| able to unemployment, as against 23s
in January. the peak.
Michael Boyle. business agent OF
local 1874. Electrical Workers union
and fifteen other business agents were
indicted at Chicago by the specia
grand jury for conspiracy to extorI
money. Altogether nineteen true bills
were voted by the jurors.
The strike of the building trades
unions of Indianapolis was called of
when the Building Contractors asso
citation of Indianapolis, meeting will
representatives of all the crafts af
fected, agreed on an s TO 12M PEI
cent reduction In wages offered b!
nine of the labor organizations ant
reached agreement with the electrical
workers TO arbitrate new wage scale
Between $500 and 1000 buildIn,
trades workers have been involved II
the strike, which was called April Is
A wage scale ten per cent lowe
than previous rates was agreed upoT
at Haverhill, Mass, by the sheet meta
workers and their employers Th'
masters had sought 20 per cent cut
The former scale was 81 an hour. Tit
plumbers and filters will continue a
the 81 an hour rate until July l, bu
the others win come under the new
scale at once. The bricklayers, ston,
masons, plasterers, cement finisher.
and bod carriers are continuing con
ferenees with the contractors and. I
unable to agree, viii submit the ques
tion to local arbitration.
The General Electric company an
nounces that its 10000 employees VIII
subscribed for General Electric stocl
win have their total cash payment
of SIG reduced by 81 each share |
they complete their payments. Thi
places the employee in equal position
with the other stockholders, although
they have just started paying foi
their stock.
In Perograd. when worker want
meal in a restaurant or pair O
boots he merely visits one OF the gov
erument stores and has so many hour
checked of his list.