Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-17
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Los Angeles clotnlDE NoTkeIS ART
demanding week work instead of
piece work.
Belgium diamond cutters work A
hours week, the same as in the
United States.
Employees of the Illinois company
at Joliet suffered a 20 per cent cut in
wages, effective May 16.
Manufacture of Industrial alcohol is
about the only feasible method Of
utilizing lumber mill refuse on large
scale
German textile unions have decided
- form an international association
e. the Christian Textile Workers
.slions
More than 100 building contractors
in the Elizabeth district of New Jer-
cey have agreed to renew last years
wage rates.
The Krupp interests In Germany
.,Sw employ more than $1,000 persons,
II whom $4,000 are employed in the
Essen works.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
rineers In triennlal convention in
Cleveland voted not TO join the Amer
| lean Federation of Labor.
The Amalgamated Clothing Work
frs of America has brought suit
against the Clothing Manufacturers
association for antl-union activities.
Deciding to accept the 10 per cent
wage cut. effective May 2, sheet metal
workers of Windsor Ont, and ada
cent municipalities returned To work.
According TO Department of Agricul-
lure reports, the farm labor situation
In the United States Is decidedly
easier" than 1t has been for many
years.
Exclusive of the Jobs found directly
within In its own institutions the Sal
vatpn army during 1920 placed In
paying positions 52,2l9 men and 1904
women.
New England had a thriving indus
try In the manufacture of wooden
hoe pegs that was destroyed when
the shoe cobbler adopted the plan of
using nails.
1t has been unofiieially announced
that the Rock Island railroad is plan
ming TO spend more than SOC, 900 In
rebuilding the shops destroyed early
in May ut Trenton, Mo.
Neenah. Wis, building contractors
have resumed operations with the
"open shop program in force. Some
work that had been brought TO a
standstill' by the strike of building
trades workmen is being resumed
The miners in the Syrian (Austrla)
coal fields went on strike. This aggra.
Yates the scarcity in the fuel supply
due TO the stoppage of shipments from
Upper Silesia owing TO the disturbed
conditions there.
The syndicate of metallurgica
workers, assembled at Santander
Spain. In national congress, decided tC
join the Third Internationale of Mos
cow. The delegates from the Asturias
and yigo voted against the proposal.
Eleven independent railway employ
ees' organizations were made partle:
to the railroad labor boards decision
abrogating national agreements. Re
instatement of IL Delaware, Lacka
wanna & Western railroad checker.
on Pier Al. New York city. was denied
A reduction in the wages of union
moulders In Boston became effectiv,
May 16, with the consent OF the un
ions involved. The cut amounted e
about 81 for the eight-hour day. The
employers had originally proposed {
reduction of SlS0 Under the former
agreement the men received $40.
The executive committee of the
Northern Counties Textile federation
(England) adopted resolution de
Ginning 10 accept the employers pro
posed 30 per cent cut In wages. Tire,
hundred thousand operatives are in
volyed
Many of the molders and core
makers of the General Electric com
pany, Schenectady, n. Y, who walked
out last June in sympathy wsth strik
ing foundry employees at the Fri,
(Pa) plant of the company returne,
to work, thus ending the longest strlk,
in the history of the company.