Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-13
OTHER LABOR NOTES

During the fiscal year of 1920
nearly 10000 child labor permits were
issued In Wisconsin.
A wage reduction of p per cent
has been announced by the Albany
| IN. " Builders exchange.
| In the best grade of cotton yarn
| there may be found about 5S8,0O0
yards of single thread In one pound.
Nearly SlJ0,0O0OOO worth of build
Ing work is being held up in Phila-
| delphia, due to labor and material
prices.
Second attempt to dissolve Amnlga-
mated Clothing Workers Union made
In Supreme court of New YorB by
| ]. Friedman 4 Co.
United States and Canada pulp and
paper mills, comforting in New York.
reject 30 per cent wage cut proposed.
The wage reductions being put In
force In the United States have thus
far failed to affect wages paid to la
borers In Great Britain.
Additional protests voiced at De
trot against requirements of La Fol
lette seamens act by Industrial heads,
ship owners and commercial men.
The Japanese government has an
nounced the discovery of a method of
utilizing Of steel. which, II adopted,
would make Japan wholly independent
of steel products.
Rail union leaders deported from
Harrison, Ark, where's they were
directing the Missouri and North
Arkansas strike, have no recourse ex-
cept in the courts, in the opinion OF
Governor McRae.
BY an overwhelming vote about
5000 employees of the Cleveland
Street Railway company agreed upon
new wage scale and working condi.
lions. The new scale is cut In wages
of about 20 per cent.
Representatives of department
stores, employers organizations, civic
bsdles, educational departments and
organized labor in New York are
banded together In vigorous opposi-
ton to the repeal OF the continuation
school law
In 1910 15S,777 persons. or one In
every fifty-four OF the total popula.
tion. were given employment by the
railways of Canada. Wages paid TO
these employees in 1919 totaled S2Os,-
as9,o95 or 545 per cent of the gross
earnings Of all railways
Because the South Bend (1nd)
builders exchange and the representa-
tiyes of the various trade crafts could
not reach compromise agreement on
wage scale reduction all unionized
crafts walked out. The employers in
sisted on a 20 per cent wage cut.
At Saut ste. Marie dozen or
more dock and dredge workers were
II idle, the Great Lakes Dredge and
Dock company having posted notices
! that union men would not be EN-
ployed because of failure of their or
Where coal cannot be readily 'shot
In" new delivery truck for the coal
dealer has platform which holds
baskets while they are being filled
and then elevators lift them to the
: height of mans shoulder, from
: which point they are easily carried
off.
Unskilled employees of the Gulf. Mo-
bile & Northern and the Birmingham
& Northwestern railroads have agreed
: to accept reduction In wages. Off
cials Of the two roads announced. Of
aa..n - .bo Dtry,i,. rho,, q. North.-aSf
ern, it was announced. have notified 1.
Il. Tigrett, president of the road, that
for the next three months 10 per cent
: of their salaries will be voluntarily
, turned back into the company's treas
ury.
2 The 800 Employees In 20 toplift fac
tories at Haverhill. Mass, will receive
! the same wages that they have been
paid for the past year for the next IL
; months under decision OF Rev. L.
w. Coons as arbitrator. The union
3 members asked an increase of 81 per
{ week. while the manufacturers sought
: a 20 per cent reduction. 1t was an
nounced that the Shoe Manufacturers
association will submit a proposition
for longer week. i'm connection with
{ the adjustment of wages.
The San Francisco building trades
wages have been cut 7ia per cent by
order of the arbitration board of San
: Francisco. The decision means 45
cents per day less. Sixteen crafts will
be affected by this award, which IL
for period of six months.
! Dissolution of the temporary injunc-
ton granted the Northern Paper Mills
: TO restrain plcketing was denied in
Circuit court at Green Bay. The
) writ was granted after several en-
ployees had been beaten by striking
| workmen. The strike is protest
against a 20 per cent wage reduction