Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-25
WAGE RATES CUT AS
STEEL MILLS RESUME
Eastern Textile Factories Also
Reopen With Reductions
in Pay.

Chicago. Jan. 25. five steel plants
in the Caiutnet-Indiana sector put moro
men to work Yesterday N what wss the
largest resumption Of operations noted
since the slump hit the mill district. The
Inland Steel Company put OF 600 men
In its plant az Indiana HarFyor, IN the
structural iron department and the sheet
milis II reopened six open hearth fur-
mecca. hi'e continuing two out Of three
blast furnaces. The company now has
z, 500 men az work Those put back
returned on wage reduction ranging
from IS to 25 pr cent Normally the
company employs about 1,OOO men
Six hundred workmen A. the plant of
the interstate Iron and Steel Company
AT East Chicago were Jlbilant when the
company announced full resumption n
activities. Since the middle u Sovem-
Der the men bad been working only q
few days 4 week u0tii q fortnight OF 20
ago. when the plant was shut down
At Indiana darbor the General Amer
ican Tank Car Company, which has
been going ahead put on 800 extra men.
ID has large orders Tor tank cars.
The Steel and Tube Company If Amer
ica also at Indiana Harbor, announced
i; was now running AZ IS per cent d
are said to have aceepted wage reduc-
tiea averaging about IL per cont.
The Hubbard Steel F0undriea Com
many which for some time has been
operating is East Chicago plsnt At
about 20 per ceat Of capacity, announced
that II would resume full force about the
/ middle a the week.
| The CARY plant of the United States
| Steel Corporatlon reported i was ran
/ ming ~ between 20 and % per cert of
| normal and the Illinois Steel Company ~
/ South Chicago said r was running at
| 90 per cent Of normal
In general, the independents, VINO
are now hack 70 a competitive basis, have
put into effect wage reductions os between
Is and p per cent. while the steel Cor-
poration. Il IS claimed, has not made cuts
SO far.
Bennington, Vt. Jan. 25.-Every tex
tile mill here wss IN operation yesterday
for tre first time since Christmas. One
of the six underwear mills OF the II. Z.
Bradford Company had been shut down
for two months
The underwear mills reopened under q
new wage scale, making reductions rang
ing from II 70 l6Iz per cent. One OF the
two hosiery mills Is running or a schedule
of FIVE days = week and the other three
days.
+ Worcester, Mas, Jan. 25.-The George
(. Duffy Manufacturing Company re-
( slrned operations IN its Cherry Valley
/ voolen mills yesterday, when 100 en-
I pioves returned 70 work after s thres
/ weeks shut down, st reduction Of II u
per cent II their pay.
The Norton Company, makers OF sbra
/ sive wheels Il Greendsle, put It's whee
/ division on a three days Sc ek schedule
because of lack OF orders. The company
also announced cut IN the price OF IL
| products 4 percentages varying from
/ 10 10 ! per cent.
Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. 25.-Opsra
ton OF the Remington Arms-Union Me
tallic Cartridge Company, employing
$500 persons three days 3 week, with /
cut in wsges, was resumed yesterday
=; Warner Brothers, corset makers, with 3, ,00'
| employees, increased their time four hour
| weekly under a wage cut. The Locomobll'
! Company cut wages 10 per cent, but
continues on regular time schedules for
/ 400 hands.
Ware. Mass, Jan. 25-The War
! Woolen Mills will reopen on full tim
Monday morning. They have been cloSeC
for more than month.