Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-11-24
OTHER LABOR NOTES


anna (MO.) have agreed to return to
work, following a request from Their
district officers.
A strike of lOngshoremen which for
more than week tied up piers at HO-
boken and parts of the New York wa
ter front ended when the Nieuw Am
i sterdam locked at her HObOken pier.
Seven hundred men returned to
work after long layoff when the Chi
cago, Great Western shops at Oelwein,
Iowa, reopened for two weeks. 1t was
announced by officials that operation
after that term would depend on ac-
ceptance Of the company's wage and
hours schedule by the men.
Nine hundred workers walked out
at the John Merrell Packing company,
Ottumwa, Iowa, according to P. S.
Maldoon, local union representative.
The workers walked out after a dis
agreement over working conditions
and wages.
ReOpening under the "open-shop"
basis of the Texas & Pacific Coal COM
pany's mines at Thurber, Tex, which
have been closed since last spring be-
cause the miners refused to accept a
wage cut, was announced by 2. @. Brit
ton, general manager.
The return Of the jOiners to the ship
building and ship repairing yards of
Great Britain, after an absence of nine
months, completes the Industrial peace
program and brings to an end the last
of the big struggles between employ
ers and their workmen.
A reduction of 10 per cent in wages
for day workers was announced by
the Merchant Shlpbuilding corpora
ton, Chester, Pa. Approximately 500
men were affected. No change in
rates for piece work or sub-contracts
is contemplated, the announcement
said.
Actual operation on the work pro-
gram formulated at Toledo, Ohio, by
the mayors committee for unemploy-
ment, was started by placing $50 heads
of dependent families at work on the
park and boulevard improvement pro-
vided for in the recent $4,000 bond
issue.
q general strike of undertakers'
workers at Barcelona, Spain, making
it impossible to bury the dead, brought
about serious situation in that city.
Grave diggers threaten a sympathy
strike. The trouble resulted from dis
missal Of some workers after demands
for increased wages.
The greatest demonstration in the
city's history occurred at Warsaw, PO-
Land, when more than $4,000 men and
women workers paraded in protest
against the proposal of George Michal-
ski, Polish minister of finance, to
amend the eight-hOur day to permit
two hours of voluntary work overtime.
The Des Moines (Ia.) street car
mems union announced that they had
made voluntary cut of seven cents
an hour in their wages in order to
get service restored and to assist in
bringing about a lower fare. The re-
duction is from so cents an hour to SO
cents, and means a saving to the COM
pany of $125,OOO a year.
The last bar to Chicagos building
boom has been let down, for the Jour
neymen Plumbers and Gasfitters'
unions have voted to abide by the
81 an hour decision Of Federal Judge
Lands. More than 5000 members
Of the union voted to go back to work
at the new scale pending a rehearing
which is scheduled to be held at some
future date.
President Walter G. Teagle of the
Standard OIL company announced that
approximately 100000 would be
spent on repairs and reconstruction
work in the New Jersey refineries In
order to increase employment. To
gain the additional hours of employ
ment represented by this sum the
wOrkmen agreed to the suspension Of
the 10 per cent cost of living bonus
they have been receiving.
President William NJ. Wood of
American Wooden company states that
the company is today operating more
machinery than ever before in its his
tory, 96>per cent of its entire looms be-
ing busy. Various mills have at times
past operated above this ratio-some
are even now running 100 per cent,
but this is the highest average, SO per
cent attained by the SYSTEM as it now
stands.
Representatives Of seven thousand
Kansas City packing house employees
resolutions pledging their-un
divided support to the officials of the
Meat Cutters and Butch.
er Workers union in strike action.
Under the referendum vote the inter.
national executive board is authorized |
to call strike whenever 1t decides
such q move is necessary J