Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-18
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

l,,rsvs There are about 800 charwomen em-
Aoyed In and about the Canadian par
==ament buildings.
00N,T pIfhe Bethlehem Shipbunding corpo-
Ion, Quincy, Mass, announced that
o of its employees at the Fore
the conceIer plant would be laid off indef-
rable indaly The 1900 other workers will
RI ,put on part-time basis.
g A large number of coIlieries in the
( cinity of POttsville, Pa, suspended.
ne Hfseis is the first time that real slack
me mornss mas hit the anthracite coal region
at nighperators say there is practically no
lerslandiRe at all for steam sizes of coal.
arls 81 hisFhe war emergency plant of the
f ethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation,
ID, Providence, R. l., is being torn
o'wn and structure and machinery are
s lne ing moved away. The plant was util-
, Ing the d during the war for fitting out de-
lisdeeds Oyers for the United States navy.
nsh,re HEmerly employed 1,2OO men.
and Al tge reductions to the extent of 10
;.k 49, ent may be expected for the en-
ees of the building trades in To-
n 20, Canada, in the very near fu-
aNen Ia --4t has been concluded that be-
0f mlne the building trade could be stimu-
and Jed there must be wage reductions
nc tableh1 lower freight rates on materials
i'm ;n Worcester, (Mass.) union paper
sngers affiliated with Local 4S3, that
-.ludes practically all men engaged in
vaF business in the city, notified their
VirA offeraployers that they will take volun-
The ysnehrg cut in wages Of ten cents an hour
hov nesH eighty cents a day, making the
kno he ii9irly wage ninety cents instead Of
1t owing
e know The new schedule of working regula-
ey wiiilns and conditions recently nego-
VI tied between the management of the
elss 1nnsylvania railroad system and GER
.in groups of the employees goes into
- fleet August 1. The employees af-
- s5-ected are the enginemen, firemen
rainmen, conductors, hostlers and
witch tenders.
Fifteen hundred Cincinnati union
= lainters who have been on strike for
weeks announced that they would
= eturn to work ut their old wage scale
4K@f S7h cents an hour. The demand
hat no brush wider than four and a
alf inches be used was dropped, as
gas the demand for double time for
asing the spraying machine.
Unieaization of the West Virginia
soal fields to enable operators already
nniOnized to increase coal prices was
discussed during the convention of
she United Mine Workers in 1918, G. E.
LIVELY an agent for the operators, tes-
aded before the senate committee In
eftigating labor disturbances in
lingo county, West Virginia.
Organizations representing 10000
asters, mates and pilots on both At
ntic and Pacific oceans reachea an
cement with the shipping board
with the American Ship Owners
ociation obviating all possibility of
strike. A reduction of Is per cent
d mates was agreed to. and the sal.
ares Of masters will be fixed by indi-
idual agreement. Changes in work.
n2 rules aboard ship were made to
onform to peace conditions.
Employees Of the Fert Edward IN
plants Of the International Pape
mpany who have been on strik,
IVA nee Hay J. adopted a resolution offer
70 return to work at the 1919 wage
ale and working conditions, recently
Hered by the company.
The American Flint Glass Workers
?. 4. snion, concluding Its forty-hfth annua
onYenton, at Sandusky, Ohio re
lected President William P. Clarke
iee President Joseph GilloOley, Sec
Treasurer Charles j. ShipmaI
Assistant Secretary Harry s