Arizona republican., 1921-11-19

[ 4i12 cents an hour, three cents. 12o,O0o Employees Affected
 when the reductions are applied to the plants of the other members of the big five, 125,0O0 men and women will be affected. In the final result. Tar larger number will be directly concerned as wages in several hun 1 dred smaller packing houses are based on the big five scales. No change is made in working con ditions or the 40-hour week guaran- | tee.
 Today's action, officials said. marked a new departure in American industry. While the plant congress- ldea has been tried with varying sue cess Tn other lines. the packing houses were the first national indus try to attempt this method of em- ploye representation in the manage ment.
 The final test of the plan will | come, officials say. when it is seen | whether the body of employees accept the decision of their chosen repre- sentatives.
 What effect the decision will have on the strike vote recently taken by 1 the Amalgamated Association of | Butcher Workmen and Meat Cutters l Of America may be known tomorrow l Presidents of union locals in eleven 1 packing centers are meeting here with Cornelius Hayes, international | president, to discuss the strike vote.
 The big five plants have always 1 been known as ''open shop" indus i tries. Packing officials say the union membership is largely confined to the
 smaller plants, and that any strike l call would not affect them seriously. l Swift Employees Accept Cut | Tonight officials Of Swift and
 company announced that after an i all-day conference representatives of l the Chicago assembly of employees 1 had voted that a readjustment of
 wages was necessary, had extended l vote of confidence in the manage
 ment and had voted to leave the | wage readjustment to the discretion
 of the management.
 Swift and company tonight an-
 nounced reductions for various
 classes of employees of the Chicago
 assembly practically corresponding to
 those fixed by the employees of Ar
 mour and company and effective or
 the same date, November 2S. Com
 pany officials said they expected the
 other Is assemblies of employees tc take similar action.
 Swift and company also announced
 tonight that the Omaha assembly had NOl6Q 10 dCCcPt d NdSe Cdl bdt AAeAS V
 not specified the amount or how il was to be determined.
 Swife and company's employees are
 holding assembly meetings in the : various cities where such organiza . l, tions exist and these assemblies are : acting individually instead of collec-
 lively, as was the case with the Ar
 mour employees.
 Among the cities where such as- semblies exist are: Denver, Kansas City, Fort Worth, St. Joseph, Mo. Omaha, St. Paul, St. Louis and Easi
 St. Louis, Ills. Officials said tonight } that action along the same lines was 5 expected in these assemblies anc : that they expected the employees l would ratify the action of the mer : appointed to represent them in tho 7 assemblies
 l E. A. Cudahy of the Cudahy pack : ing company announced tonight tha the proposition accepting lowel wages was placed before the plan assemblies of the company today il Omaha. Kansas City, Wichita ant
 Sioux City He stated that he had not learned the result of the delib erations but had no doubt that thi
 action would be similar to that takei I, by employees of Armour and Swift OHAMA REFUSES CUT . OMAHA, Nov. 1S.-Five thousand members of the Omaha cha2ter o
 the Amalganiated Meat Cutters an' :. Butcher Workmen of North America | will not accept the wage reduction 2 agreement made today in Chicag' between representatives of Armou and company and the plant commit tee" according to a statement mad Q l tonight by J. ". Burns, secretary District Council No. 5 of the Mea
 Cutters and Butcher Workmen-
 If the reduction is carried out a 1 planned it is stated that the othe
 packing companies who are member | of the "big five" will institute In
 same reduction. These plants il Omaha are Morris and company } Swift and company, Cudahy ant
 company, and Wilson and company