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

Germany Is using window cords
made Of paper.
1t is estimated that there are 3d.
600 unemployed In South Wales.
A London carriage manufactures
employs more than 800 onearmed
men.
Nearly 100000 unemployed In
Germany are receiving aid from the
government.
Seventy-two labor unions In the
United States have .iffsiorsed the plan
for the opening OF trade relations with
Russia.
Over 100000 iron and metal
workers In Sweden have threatened
to suspend work unless they are
granted an increase In wages.
Approximately 10000 employees of
the central railroads In the United
States have decided to oppose any
wage reduction.
Several thousand plumbers, metal
workers, electricians. and painters
struck at st. Joseph, Mo-, rather than
accept decrease.
Organized labor In California Is
strenuously opposing pending legisla-
ton which would substitute night
schools for part-time educational
classes.
Employed members of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers In Boston
are now paying 20 per cent instead
of 10 per cent assessment into the
unions defense fund.
Over 100000 days were lost TO
Industrial Pennsylvania In 1920
through Industrial accidents. Most of
this time was suffered by the 100000
foreign-born workmen in the state.
At Avila. Spain. the doctors declared
general strike because the munich
pality and the provincial authorities
have declined TO increase theE allow
ances for attendance on the poor.
| AT the end of n two-day session
the Montana Printing Employers
| league announced that the 44-hour
week demanded by the printing trades
crafts of Montana will not be granted.
Every female employee of the Sta
QUOT Shirt Manufacturing Company
| of Norristown, Pa, was given silk
waist at dinner celebrating the first
anniversary of the opening Of the
| plant.
Nine hundred and ninety-seven
| cutting tools alone are required in
manufacturing rifle. The twist drill
is one of the busiest of these. To
supply 100000 rifles o4.000,000 holes
must be drilled.
Thirty-hve representatives Of the
ten thousand shop employees Of the
Reading system refused to accept an
IS per cent reduction in wages pro.
posed by NJ. Falck., general manager
of the system.
More than 800 separate products
are made from petroleum. High ex.
plosives are distilled from 1t, medi
clnes, dyes and even artificial flavor.
ings-and yet we have but begun tc
understand this modern wonder
worker.
The Cleveland Chamber Of Com
merce has proved a big boon to In
dustry In the city. Reports from
1,423 firms in the United States or
March show that there were or
that date 1925 more idle men thar
on January l.
The car shops of the Delaware
Hudson Railroad company. at Colonie
n. Y, opened with about 75 per cen
of the employees back at work. TIL,
shops. which are the largest the com
pany owns, were closed indefinitely OF
March 20, with all hands laid of.
During the five years that the
compensation law has been in effect
In Pennsylvania. 995.S63 accident.
were reported to the Department o.
Labor and Industry. During this pc
riod wage earners have received more
than S21000.000 for injuries and dis
abilities.
Fewer employees to the number o.
more than 1900 were on the pay rol
of the Chicago. Rock Island X Pa
cific Railway company on Februer,
2S. 1921, than were there the day tn,
government relinquished control o.
the road, February 20, 1920, according
TO the annual report of the road.
New Zealand is experiencing a short
age of labor which is interfering will
the industrial progress of the country
The tide of immigration is not suffic
lent TO. keep up with the demands
and II has become imperative that the
depleted ranks OF workers he filled
by natives, who must be taught
! trades