The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-10
I'D I j III I'LL IN
AFFECTS 100000;
BIC STRIKES LOOM
Slash of is to 20 Per Cent.
Already Announced by Cud-
ahy Plant in Omaha-Rail-
ways Reduce Salaries.
Chicago, March s.-The works

Chicago, March 8.-The work.
ingman's pay is coming down.
Significant downward wage re-.
visions are taking place in i'm.
portant trades and industries
and more are in immediate pros
spect.
Within 48 hours, it is author.
itatively reported, the Chicago
packers will announce the aboli.
ton of the eight hour day and
reduction in wages affecting
100000 employees in the II prln.
cipaI livestock market centers of
the country.
The wage reduction will affect
plants in Chicago, Kansas City,
Omaha, st. Louis, Indianapolis,
East Buffalo, Sioux City, ST.
Joseph, st. Paul, East ST. Louis
and Fort Worth.
Open strike threats are being
made in packing centers.
1--WE will call a strike if the
packers put the proposed wage
cut in effect" said Dennis Lane,
secretary and treasurer of the
Butchers Union of America.
A pay slash Of is to 20 per cent.
has already been announced by
the Cudahy plant in Omaha.
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
chicago Federation Of Labor, in
formed the United News that labor
will fight to the limit all efforts to
reduce wages.
s.uyl.
The American standard Of living
has not been reached by the work.
1ngman and now the profiteering en-
.ployers seek to bring the standard
back to the starvation level" he de-
clared.
Defies Packers.
President Fitzpatrick of the labor
federation said that the packers. in
.abrogating the wartime wage pact
<broke their word with the United
States government as well as wifi,
the men,
''The packers" he asserted, asked
the government to extend the wage
agreement to one year after the war
was declared officially ended by con-
:gress. Meantime, the labor situation
-eased up and the packers promptly
broke their contract. The packing
house employees, in whatever action
they may take, will be given the
moral and physical support of the
Chicago Federation of Labor"
Packers to Issue Statement.
A statement will be. issued by the
packers Tuesday or Wednesday. it
was said, announcing that overtime
pay will be regulated henceforth on
"a 10-hour basis, thus abolialing the
eight hour day. The packers con-
tend that it is imperative that they
reduce their overhead expenses.
The ranks Of the unemployed will
be added to within the next 10 DAYS
as the result Of orders issued by the
-Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e rail-
way Company to all it's department
heads, instructing them to reduce
forces 20 per cent
Monday the contractors of Chicago
served formal notice on the car
penters that wages shall be reduced
from s1.25 an hour to 81 an hour,
effective May 81
Withil- a week similar notices will
be served on every other building
trade, with the possible exception of
the plasterers,i who have obtained a
renewal Of their old wage agreement.
: Employers point out that the recess
isions asked are smaller than the liv-
ang cost recession as shown by gov
eminent statistics. T
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO CUT
WAGES 10 PER CENT.
San Francisco, March S.-Officials
of the Southern Pacific and Western
Pacific railroads announced here
Monday that cut in the wages Of
unskilled ,aborers would be put into