The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-03-23
OTHER LABOR NOTES

$50 men. closed for an indefinite Pc
Rod.
The unemployment situation in
South Africa has reached q critical
stage. Entire families in the ,dia-
mond regions are reported starving.
Armed strikers who have been ter
rorizing the territory Of Santa Cruz,
southern Argentina, have surrendered
Internationally and given up their
arms.
Canada's new program for proven
ton Of unemployment centers in a
national employment service working
In close touch with the immigration
department.
Increased production schedules were
officially announced at Detroit by the
Wilson Body company, Paige-D Detroit
Motor Car company, Studebaker cor
poration, and Liberty Starter CON
pany.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
handed notices Of furlough to 100 men
employed in the Juaniata (Pa.) shops,
where engines are built and repaired.
About 100 men In the Altoona a
shops got notices, the announcement
said. va
A general reduction Of 1898 percent
in wages paid in the building trades
Of Philadelphia was recommended In q
report presented to the Philadelphia
chamber Of commerce conference on
building construction conditions In
that vicinity.
Carpenters. painters and bricklayers
in the vicinity of Red Lion, Pa, have
agreed to a reduction of 10 cents per
hour In wages after April 1. The. car
penters and painters will receive 65
cents an hour and the bricklayers will
be paid Is cents.
The Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufac-
turing company notified its 800 en-
| ployees that beginning Immediately the
plant would operate ten hours a day
instead Of eight without increasing
wages. In 1918 the plant went on an
eight-hour day basis with a Is per cent
increase In wages.
The Illinois Steel company of Joliet,
subsidiary Of the United States Steel
corporation, which formerly operated
| its plant on two 12-hour shifts, Is now
running on two nine-hour shifts. Off
| Gals of the company stated they pre-
ferred reducing hours to closing down.
Three eight-hour shifts are predicted
when business reaches normal.
A wage reduction Of Is per cent
was announced by the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing company.
Pittsburgh. H. P. Vine, vice president
Of the concern in charge Of operations,
said the cut was made necessary by
competitive conditions, the fall In
prices and the decrease in volume Of
business. 4
All Of the workers Of trades allied
with the paper industry involved in
the controversy with the Croker
McElwain and Chemical Paper COM
panies, Holyoke, Mass, who have been
on strike in resistance to the individ-
ual contract system, returned to work
following the recommendations Of a
special committee, pending the draft
ing of a new agreement.
A wage reduction of 20 per cent 10
necessary for successful operation Of
the F. W. Hoyt Shoe company Of Man
chester, N. H., the state board Of con.
Citation ruled. The decision, however,
said that the cut should not be made
at one time, 10 per cent To- be taken
from present rates on March I and an
additional 10 per cent reduction made
on May 1. '""" =
An increase Of 10 per cent was re-
ported in the weekly payrolls Of Haver-
hill (Mass.) concerns affiliated with
the Shoe Manufacturers association.
The aggregate payroll for Is shoe firms
was $93, O63, as compared with $78,241
for the previous week; Reports from
the local labor unions we're that near
" 60 per cent Of the employees are
now at work in the shoe and its allied
trades.
In an attempt to encourage building
and thereby stimulate public interest
and confidence, the Master Builders
association Of Lawrence, Mass, mott
fed the Building Trades council that
a wage cut Of 20 per cent would be
effective at once. The scale was 81 an
hour. Those crafts affected by the de-
crease are the masons, tenders; brick
layers, painters, paperhangers, plaster.
ers and all tradesmen affiliated with
the trades council.
At Sandusky, Ohio, the plants OF
the American Crayon company and
the Kroma Color company. were
closed down. Both concerns ! over.
stocked, according to official state.
ments. About 800 men and women
are affected.
One hundred and twenty members
Of the painters, timers, carpenters and
bricklayers unions, employed at the
Sugar Greek plant Of the Standard OIL
company, Kansas City, did n Q report
for work because Of an announced
wage reduction Of 10 per cent, affect.
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