Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-01
OTHER LABOR NOTES

The Cadillac company. Detroit. took
| on 900 more employees.
The Grand Trunk shops at Battle
Creek. Mich, reopened with force
of 525 men
Further reductions In shopmen's
forces on the Union Pacific, at Omaha,
have been made.
The locomotive shops of the New
| York Central Railway company at
Avis, Pa, which were closed ON Feb
ruary 10, resumed full operations.
The Chevrolet Motor company Of
Texas resumed production at It's
southwestern factory on steady
daily basis.
Work has been resumed In almost
every place In Florence, Italy, without
| further untoward incidents in conse-
quence of labor officials calling off the
| strike.
The Reading Iron company, operat-
Ing five plants In Reading and four
In other Pennsylvania towns, an
nounced a cut In prices OF So to $40
per ton In tubular products.
| The working force of the central
region of the Pennsylvania railroad
| system Will be further reduced. OPP
Grafton of the Pittsburgh terminal as
separate organization is to be dis
continued.
Notices were posted announcing the
| reopening of the New York Central
locomotive repair shops Mt Collinwood
o.. which have been closed since Feb
ruary 81. More than 1900 men will
resume work.
Brewery workers of the Hazleton
| (Pa.) district served notice ON the
owners of the plants that they Will
not stand for any reduction of wages
ut the expiration of their present
agreement, April /.
The Chilean chamber OF deputies
| has passed n bill for the expenditure
OF 50.O0o,000 pesos In roadbuilding and
public works, in order To aid In solv-
ing the unemployment problem. This
sum would be obtained from the pro-
ceeds of $24,000,000 loan placed in
the United States,
At Hopedale. Mass, the Draper
corporation, employing $500 in the
manufacture of cotton machinery,
posted notices of general reduction
In wages an hour and for piece work,
with an adjustment at the same time
to give the more skillful employees
recognition.
There is no unemployment In Fin
land. says NJ yilpanef, chief of the
trade and industry department of the
! Finnish government He attributed
| Finland's good fortune in this re
spect, as compared TO most other
countries, to the prohibition of inn
ports.
With view TO meeting open com
! petition. officials of the Walworth
Bros mill, Lawrence, Mass, manu-
/ facturers of fancy worsted announced
wage reduction of 7ia per cent.
This, added to a previous 10 per cent
cut, brings the total 10 that made In
other local mills lately.
A strong point was made at recent
congress of natives at Maitland, South
Africa, when they pointed out that the
native pays exactly the same price for
all the necessities of life as is paid by
the richest white man, while the wages
of native are not even half those of
the white lahorers.
The Thomas Cakes wooden mills In
Bloomfield n. j.. resumed operations
on 5S-hours week basis, with 20
per cent reduction in wages. The
plant has been closed Saturdays since
announced three weeks ago and 800
workers went on strike, 1t is said the
extra working hours viii enable the
men to make up part of the loss, and
most of them returned to work.
At Fresno, Cal. formation of as
Hour Per Week League" was an
nounced. following the annual meet
ing of the Pacific Coast Employing
Printers and Allied Trades council.
| Announcement was made that the
league will launch an "open shop"
campaign in the printing industry after
May If the unions continue TO make
| demands for 44-hour week.
The General Fireproofing company
and the Truscon Steel company an
nounced reductions of 20 per cent Id
the hourly wage scale at their plants
at Youngstown, o. The new scale is
from 80 to 80 cents an hour.
measure I'm the Massachusetts
legislature which proposes the ap-
polntment OF a commission by the
governor to make study of the In
dustrlal court plan. as now In opera
ton I'm Kansas, was vigorously op-
posed by organized labor when II was
the subject Of hearing before the
! committee on labor and industries.