Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-18
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Canada has more than 1000 organ
lied railway workers.
Trade union membership In England
has now passed the 100000 mark.
In Mobile, Ala, the trade unlonists
have purchased their own labor tenn
pie.
Factories producing passenger auto
mobiles now number 1876 In the United
States.
In Denmark Idle workers are allowed
on an average of from $40 to ST. per
week by the government.
All wage-earners are now admitted
to the Boston Central Labor union. ir-
respective of their American Fedora
ton of Labor affiliations.
The number Of unemployed In Great
Britain Is given on labor exchange
books as $4,000. while other author
tiles place the total Of people without
work at 100000.
Strikes on tramways and In railway
electric power stations in Greece were
declared off following the action of
King Constantine In receiving deputa-
lions and intervening In favor OF the
strikers.
A reduction averaging 10 per cent
In the pay of 10000 employees at the
plant of the General Electric COM
pany, Lynn, Mass. was announced.
The cut will not apply to clerical en-
ployees at present.
A ten per cent wage reduction, eff
fective Immediately, in four Atlantic
coast yards of the Bethlehem Ship
building corporation for hourly and
| piecework, was announced. Similar
reductions are planned by other ship
yards.
AT Pawtucket. r. l., J. &. p. Coats
| thread manufacturers, announced that
all departments would hereafter be
| operated forty-eight hours week, and
| that night shift would be started In
the spinning department The plant
employs $500 on day work.
/ Three hundred employees of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation
went on strike at Elizabeth. N. j., in
protest against a 10 per cent wage cut.
The same wage cut was effective In
the corporations plants at Quincy,
Mass. Baltimore and Wilmington. Del
Two big cotton mills near Columbus,
Ca, the Eagle and Phenix. and the
Swift Manufacturing company plants
announced resumption of full-time OPP
Grafton after two months OF half time
No wage reductions will be made, II
was stated but bonus payments are
discontinued.
The ST. Louis and San Francisco
| railroad announced reduction In the
pay of maintenance of way employees
at Houston, Texas. from AZ cents M
hour to % cents. Local officers OF
the railroad brotherhood declare tn,
cut was In violation of the national
agreement.
An error whereby the word paint
ers" was rendered printers" was re
sponsible for press dispatches thai
Gadsden (Ala.) union printers hat
voluntarily reduced their wage scale
from as cents to 65 cents. The paint
ers announced the reduction and the
printers were In no way involved.
One hundred and fifty unemployed
men organized at Denver and marched
TO the city HAN. where the city council
was I'm session, to present demand
for employment. The only actor
taken was motion to have the cit,
take over a house-wrecking job or
property condemned for a street ex
tension. to give them work. Their,
was no disorder.
Four repair shops OF the New Yorl
Central railroad have been closed tenn
porarily. The location of the shop,
and the number of men each employ,
follow: West Albany N. Y. LOO
Elkhart, Ind. 700; Collinwood, Ohio
900, and Depew. n. Y, 500.
Bricklayers' local union refused {,
accept a wage reduction proposed b.
the Brick Contractors Association q
; Pittsburgh. In their answer TO tn,
, employers. the brlcklayers said the!
felt they were going as far as pos
sible when they did not ask for an in
crease in wages.