Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-18
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR


McKeesport (Pa.) Tin Plate company
is in full operation.
Officials of the Wheeling (W. Va.)
Steel and Iron company announced
that the Benwood plant would resume
at once, with 1000 men.
The locomotive department Of the
Chicago Great Western shops, Oelwein,
Iowa, opened after two months idle
ness, employing several hundred men.
The Republic Rubber corporation,
Youngstown, Ohio, resumed partial op-
Grafton Of its mechanical goods depart
ment, placing the entire establishment
on about a 40 per cent operating basis.
Allentown (Pa.) plumbers and
steamftters, who have been on strike
for eight months, voted to accept a
reduction in wages from 80 to 70 cents
and helpers from 65 to so cents an
hour.
The Smith & Wesson company, fire
arms manufacturers, Springfield,
Mass, announced that the factory
would close for one month, part Of
which time will be devoted to inven-
tory.
Providence OR. L. journeymen plas-
terers, on strike for nine weeks, agreed
with the master plasterers on a wage
Of $1.05 per hour. An agreement to
continue for one year has been eff
fected,
The workmens compensation act
passed by the last Arizona legisla-
ture, creating the state industrial COM
mission, is unconstitutional, according
to a decision handed down by the
state Supreme court.
Under a decision of Samuel Unter-
meyer as arbitrator in the Westchester
IN. W county building trades wage
dispute, members of the union of West
chester county must accept a wage cut
of 81 a day effective on September 1.
From May to June the decrease in
factory employment in New York state
was per cent, and the total decline
during the present depression has been
% per cent, according to the report of
Henry D. Sayet, state industrial COM
missioner.
All navy yards and shore stations
will be put on a five-day week basis
of operation temporarily, Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt announced, in an
effort to prevent so drastic a reduc-
tiOn Of personnel as otherwise would
be necessary under the reduced
appropriations now available.
Two thousand candy makers, en-
plOyed by E. ]. Brach & Sons, Chicago,
who walked out" when their wages
were cut 10 per cent and their work
ing day raised to ten hours, said they
will not return unless granted an
eight-hour day with overtime pay and
a wage ranging from 80 to 60 cents.
The wages of plumbers, hoisting en-
gineers, wood lathers, painters, iron
workers, masons and bricklayers Of
Trenton, N. J., have been cut from so
cents to 81 a day. The unions and
bosses are directed to get together
each year and appoint an arbitrator to
fix the wage scale for the ensuing
year.
Announcement has been made from
the. general offices of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad company of reduc-
tiOns to be made in the compensation
of those general division and other of
ficers and monthly employees of the
company who were granted increases
in pay on or since May l, 1920. The
reductions will be effective as of July
/ last
The hours of labor of several thou
sand Boston women and minors en-
plOyed in laundries, hotels, manicuring
and hairdressing establishments, mo-
tion picture theaters and as telephone
and elevator operators, were reduced
to nine hours day and 48 hours a
week with the going into operation Of
an amendment to the state labor law
passed by the last legislature.
President John L. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
a statement, declared David Robb
and other representatives of the union
had been ordered by the state mill
tary authorities" to leave West, Vir-
ginia, where a strike has been in
progress some time. and he added that
the 'union win afford every possible
protection and assistance" to the men.
At Warren, O., following an
nouncement of a 20 per cent cut in
wages, employees of the Ohio Corrugat.
ing company, manufacturers of cor
rugated roofing, walked out. The men
have been receiving 42 cents an hour.
About $50 men are affected.
The Minnesota state federation of
labor is on record as a dry Organiza-
tion. BY a vote Of 1913 to 166 the con-
vention tabled a resolution introduced
by the brewery workers union, ask
ing congress to amend the Volstead
act to allow manufacture Of beer and
lfcht wines