Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-03
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

Montreal. Canada, has more than
$4,000 idle workmen.
More than 600 cooperative societies
are now doing business In Finland.
The craftsmen of every city In the
United States and Canada are organic
Ing
England has about 5000 fur work.
ers, the majority OF whom are EN-
ployed In London.
Representatives of textile mills and
shoe shops In Lewiston, Me, voted TO
adopt daylight saving time.
Union tailors In Spartanburg, $. c.,
have opened a shop which will be
operated by their members only.
The percentage of unemployment
among nonunion workers Is always
higher than among union members.
Louisville. KY, Is to have Its own
coal mine and municipal yard for the
purpose Of supplying coal to city insti-
tntlons.
More than 1900 carpenters, paint
ers, masons, plumbers, steamfitters,
printers, and paper mill workers
struck at Green Bay. Wis.
British Columbia pulp and paper
mills win not be affected by the strike
of paper workers, Norman Long, man
ager of the Powell River (B. CO Pa
per company, declared.
The Dover plant of the American
Sheet and Tinplate company, which
has been shut down for several weeks,
resumed operation Of one-half of Its
hot mills, giving work to 400 men.
The Waterbury Comm plant OF
Robert II. Ingersoll 4 Bro, closed
some weeks ago because of business
depression. reopened May s. Nearly
600 employees were affected by the
layoff.
Textile workers are immigrating In
such large numbers from Saxony to
Argentina that the authorities In the
latter country are considering the
stopping of their coming into the
country.
More than billion dollars In con-
struction work has been stopped In
the country by labor troubles. accord
ing to Earl #. Stokes, secretary OF
the National Association of Builders
Exchanges
The strike of the trainmen on the
Cuban railway became general, caus-
Ing virtual cessation of Transports
ton throughout the eastern half of the
island. according to press dispatches
received from .Camaguey and other
rail eenters.
The senate of the Industrial de-
mocracy by which the Riverside and
Dan River cotton mills. $4,000, 600
corporation of Danville, Va, Is gov
erned voted inconvenience In the
bill recently approved by the house
accepting a cut of 22is per cent In all
wages.
The Chicago job printers demand
for 44-hour week was granted. but
the printers will accept the $4.35 a
week wage reduction decided upon by
Dean Ralph Emerson Heilman, who
was chosen arbiter by the committees
of employers and employees. The
basic wage for compositors will now
be S46,65 week.
Journeymen carpenters of Pitts.
hurgh and vicinity, members of the
Carpenters District council, rejected
proposed wage cut A referendum
vote was taken of the entire member
ship union officials stated. after the
contracting carpenters intimated that
previous rejection of the wage cut
by committee OF the union did not
represent sentiment among the rank
and file of union carpenters. Carpen-
tiers at present receive S1.25 an hour
or $40 day of eight hours.
Announcement that building opera.
tons of the Carnegie Steel Co. al
| Mcdonald, Ohio the new mill town
near Glrard, will be on an open-shor
basis was made, A large number OF
houses for workmen at Mcdonald are
being erected by the Conneaut Land
company, subsidiary TO the corpora.
ton. Approximately $50 men win be cut
20 per cent in wages, 1t Is said. The
company will do all building with Its
own force. who will be paid on sliding
scale with minimum rates OF 81 an
hour for bricklayers, so cents for
carpenters. electricians. fathers, paint
ers. plasterers, plumbers and sheet
metal and cement workers and 65
cents for bod carriers.
The first settlement In the building
strike at Worcester, Mass. against a
20 per cent cut in pay. started April
l. was made by the bricklayers and
plasterers. who accepted a reduction
Of 10 cents an hour-from $1.l21s to
97l5 cents.
A separate agreement was made at
Kansas City between boss plasterers
and the plasterers' union, according to
Charles Eagan, business representa-
tive of the union. Mr.. Eagan said
that any shutdown on construction
jobs would not affect the craft he rep
resented.