Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
GENERAL Li.BOR NEWS

Many building trades workers
walked out Mt Omaha, Neb., refusing
reduction in pay.
Fifteen hundred men in the Des
Moines, Iowa. building trades were
Idle. They refused to accept wage
slash
AT Walla Wnlla. Wash. wage re-
auctions of 20 per cent for all build
ing crafts went into effect. They
we're voted unanimously by the En-
ployers' association.
Three mills of the McKeesport
plant. American Sheet and Tin Plate
company, have resumed and three
others will reopen at once, officials an
nounced. They said orders for ma
terlal warranted resumption.
Approximately 1000 building trades
workmen of Memphis. Tenn, were idle,
union leaders and building contractors
falling to reach "A wage agreement TO
replace contracts which expired. Work
men contend the new contracts reduce
wages from 10 to 20 per cent.
Building contractors of Denver have
begun employing nonuRion ,workmen,
following cessation of building oper-
atoms since March 81. because of the
unions refusing to accept wage re-
duction of 10 to II per cent Two
thousand carpenters, bricklayers,
painters, plasterers and fathers, are
affected.
Settlement of strike at the mines
OF the. Patton (Kan.) Goa, and Min
Ing company, In progress since March
%, was announced. Alexander How
att and five other officers OF the Kan
sas Miners union are TO be tried be-
fore Judge A. J. curran in district
court In calling the strike in violation
of an injunction.
The United States Building Trades
Council of Boston announced that II
| had decided to accept proposal OF
| the state board of Cancellation and
arbitration for consideration OF the
dispute with the employers that has
tied up building operations for ten
weeks. The employers have already
agreed 10 the arbitration suggestion
Sixteen thousand men have been AZ.
fected by the tieup.
The garment workers OF vineland
N. j.. scored victory when Vice
Chancellor Leaning dismissed the pc
tition OF the Vlneland Coat company
for an injunction to prohibit the local
union, No. 2, Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, from picketing
the factory. The petition requested
that the men be enjoined from contin'
uing to hold meetings in front of the
factory and from calling the nonunion
workers "scabs."
An offer by officials of the Cleve
land street car mems union TO accept
10 per cent reduction for the 3,40t
conductors and motormen at the ex
piration of the present wage agree
ment May l was rejected by j.
Stanley. president of the CLEVELAND
Railway company. President Stanle.
said he would stand firm on his de
mand for a 20 per cent reduction anC
other demands of the company, in
Guiding an open shop and abolition
of wartime emergency clauses In thii
years contract.
The reduction OF 10 per cent In the
wages Of all shipyard workers In the
New York district went into effect
There apparently was no organized
opposition to the move, and a survey
of the yards showed the employees
working quietly at their jobs.
The paper mill and ground woot
department Of st. Croix Paper com
pany. Woodland. Me-. viii be operate,
four days a week. The sulphIte de
partment will be suspended indefinite
ly. This is the first curtaiIment OF
working hours since the mill was built
Is years ago.