The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

members are unemployed.
More than $4,000 workers were EN-.
! ploysd in the Canadian lumber in
dustry during 1919.
| International congress of transport
workers In Geneva voted to support
striking British miners.
The Springfield coal mine at Tay-
lorville, H., and the mine at Stoning-
ton were sealed for lack Of orders.
| Three hundred employees of Altoona
| (Pa.) & Logan Valley Electric rail-
way offered to accept cents an hour
| cut.
The bricklayers and masons' union
of Brazil. Ind, voted unanimously to
accept a wage cut from 1.25 to 81
an hour.
Officials and employees of Detroit
United Railway disagreed in confer
ence on company's order to cut wages
| 20 to % per cent.
| Master printers of eastern Canada
said they would declare open shops II
printers strike for more wages and
| less hours.
| Senate Interstate commerce COM
| mittee will investigate deportation Of
union officials from Harrison, Ark,
| during railroad strike there.
| The international congress of trans
| port workers passed resolution call
! ing for the maintenance of the eight
| hour day and exhorting workers of
all countries to resist by every means
attempts by capitalists" TO exceed
this limit
President Bierd of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad company ordered the
| car repair shops at Bloomington, H.,
closed until June l. This throws 1000
men out of employment. Bierd says
the action iss necessary until wages
are reduced.
Federal prison workshops are TO be
| placed upon a basis that will afford
| convicts d chance TO win a bonus
for their industry. The federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga, is TO have the first
"humanizing" experiment Attorney
General Daugherty said.
The Amalgamated Association of
! Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has pur-
chased three-story building in Pitts
burgh which will be used for office
purposes. They will also Install q
printing plant and issue paper her
aiding the doings of the organization.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Spinning
company, closed for the last six
months, resumed operations on a
plant has 25,0OO spindles and employs
1900 hands, engaged chiefly in the
| manufacture of tire yarns.
Reductions of from % to 60 cents
in daily wages for mine workers were
announced by the Copper Queen and
| Calumet and Arizona Mining com
panies, Bisbee, AriZ Salaried en-
ployes will be affected by a reduc-
tion to 5 per cent above base pay.
TWenty-six thousand persons are at
the point of starvation in the coal
fields of Northern Alabama, Gov.
Thomas E. Kilby was told in an
appeal by the Salvation Army. Con
ditions in the mining district, 1t was
explained, grew out of the strike of
mine workers, which continued several
months.
Stove shop molders throughout the
| United States have agreed to a Is
| per cent wage reduction. The new
day rate will be S6.05 for eight hours.
The molders work, however, for the
most part on piece work, and have
been making from $40 to S14 day
They figure they will make from $s
TO S11 a day under the new scale.
Following a strike Of 800 female
workers of the Yuen Fong Silk Fila
tuTe, Shanghai, China, an increase In
wages for twelve-hour day Of from
20 cents to 80 cents was granted by
the management and the strike ended
Wage payments In Chinese plants in
Shanghai are based on the Mexican
| dollar valuation.
The plant of the Bigelow Hartford
Carpet company, Thompsonville, Conn.
closed since March IA as the result
OF the refusal of the 2,2O0 employees
to accept wage reduction, was re
opened. The strikers have been out
since Feb. % I'm resistance to an an
nounced wage cut of 20 per cent, but
in a meeting Of the tapestry work
ers' union the union committee stated
that the cut in that department mean
a reduction of from 35 to 3S per cent
In wages.
Members of the United Leather
Workers Of America, local No. l
| by vote of S34 to 189, decided
against the proposition of the state
| board OF arbitration that they return
| to work at the National Calfskir
company, Peabody, Mass.
At Huntington, w. Va, five men
charged with violating a federal cour1
| injunction restraining them from In
! terfering with the operation of certain
| Mingo county coal mines, were founC
| guilty in United States District court
! They were sentenced to serve two
| months 0ac ch in fail.
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