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

The Oregon Short Line railroad
laid off 5S5 shop employees.
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, have re-
sumed operations.
The Star SILK Throwing company,
Mt Shamokin, Pa, and the Shamokin
SILK company resumed operations.
The revision of wages of thousands
of laborers Is contemplated by the
New York Central Railroad company,
effective April l.
Dundee (Scotland) spinners and
manufacturers have laid claim be-
fore the Jute Trade board for a re-
ductlon OF % per cent in workers
wages.
British coal mine owners have de-
cided to give a two weeks notice of
the termination of their contract with
the miners This means the miners will
be obliged to make new contracts
without government intervention 1t
also means the end of wartime wages.
The labor situation In Bombay, In
dia, Is still unsettled pending a deci-
sion whether mill strike, affecting
100000 operatives. will take place.
Three thousand workmen In the Kohl
Moor mill are still out. They have for
INFLATED their demands, but the en-
ployers have not yet considered them.
One dollar an hour for journeymen
plumbers and steamfitters in Detroit.
effective May 1. was agreed on by the
Michigan Master Plumbers and Steam
filters association, 1t WIS announced
by John s. Irvine associate president.
That rate is offered union and non
union workers alike.
A compulsory conference called by
the director of Australla's arbitration
court has settled strike which seri-
ously affected shipping for more than
two months Conditions of the set
Element included abandonment OF job
control and immediate commissioning
OF all ships now tied up.
At Ottawa, H., fires were started
In the ovens of new plate glass fac
tory. Most of the other glass fac
tories of the section which suspended
last fall. will reopen soon. In most
plants there will be an average reduc-
tion in wages of Is per cent
Wages of from $500 TO $500 EN-
ployees of Sears. Roebuck & Co,
Chicago, have been reduced. The pay
of other employees will soon be
trimmed until wages are reduced to
the general level of the spring of
/ 1920, when the last increase In pay
/ was granted
/ The Worcester (Mass.) Wooden Mil
/ company announces that 1t viii begin
operating ut full capacity as soon as
4 Its working force can be increased to
/ its old size of 800 hands. The plant
/ has been running several months with
force of only 30 in manufacturing
heavy woolens.
\ reduction approximatlng 20 per
cent In the pay of all laborers of the
Jones and Laughlin Steel company,
/ Pittsburgh, became effective March l..
! Readjustments of the wages of ton
mage men in conformity with the new
labor scale are to be made. The Jones
and Laughlin company employs in nor
NAL times about 25000 men. The new
rate will be 81 cents an hour, the
present being 46 cents an hour.
Employers of labor In the building
trades at Sioux Falls, s. d.. have put
into effect new scale of wages, which
includes a reduction for common labor
from 10 cents to GO cents an hour.
Thus far the reduction has had little
effect, for the reason that a compare
lively small amount of building now is
being done in Sioux Falls, this being
the quiet time of year in the building
line.
The Duplan Silk corporation and the
Louis Roessel silk company, two of
the largest plants In the Hazletou
tPa.) district. announced Is per
cent wage reduction.
The executive council Of the build
Ing trades department of the American
Federation of Labor has gone on rec
ord as opposed to any wage reductions
in the building trades at this time. The
council took the position that while
the wholesale prices of food. clothing
and fuel had dropped, the decreases
had not been put into effect by the re-
tailers.