Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-11
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Mo, have gone on a fonr-day schedule.
Nearly 30.O00o00 tons of coal were
mined In Indiana during the last year.
Over million and half people
were employed I'm New York factories
during 1920.
Women employed In Industrial work
in Michigan are paid the same rate OF
pay as men for the same work.
The United States Steel corporation
expends nearly million dollars a
year for pensions to employees.
About so per cent of the population
of Holland is dependent on the gov
ernment. due to unemployment.
White gold miners In South Africa
work an eight-hour shift. while the
100000 natives work only five hours.
The leather industry in Finland can
| produce nearly twice as much as is
required for domestic consumption.
Three days work in a week. was
agreed TO by the spinning section OF
the Lancashire tEng.) cotton indus
| try.
The average weekly earnings OF
New York state factory workers was
$2S.93 In October, gain of 20 cents
over the September average.
Ten thousand coal miners employed
by the Hokkaido colliery and Steam
ship company (Japan) struck refusing
to accept 20 per cent cut in wages.
After being closed since January 8.
the Borden condensed milk plant at
Modesto, Cal, employing approxi-
mately 300 men, opened February u.
Twenty-seven hundred union fac-
tory employees OF the Hamilton-Brown
Shoe company, st. Louis Mo-, voted
TO work AS hours a week beginning
March /. instead of A.
Pressed pulp Is To be used In the
construction of the lVlding which
will house the Welsh National Indus
trial exhibition to be held in Cardiff
next year.
At Endlcott. N. Y. the International
Time Recorder company, one of the
largest concerns of its kind in the
world. announced that its workers
have accepted 10 per cent reduction
In wages.
| A strike of 10000 needle workers, so
per cent of whom are women. was
called at New York by officials of the
Joint board OF Dress and Waistmakers'
unions in an effort to enforce the
closed shop in the womens clothing
manufacturing industry. Hundreds of
small shops in the Madison and Union
square districts were affected.
Detroit building contractors an
nonnced cut In wages of approxi-
mately 20 per cent. The reduction fol-
lowed Il recent meeting ut Lansing, at
which builders all over the state s,ok
the reduction under consideration. The
wage reduction, together with lower
material costs, II is estimated, would
reduce building prices about 80 per
cent.
Juan Castillon and his associates
are making preparations to operate
mines In the Sierra Mojada district of
Mexico. Nearly all of the big mines
in the Sierra Mojada district have
been closed down for the last two
months, but will resume operations
soon. The American Smelling and Re-
fning company has number of pro-
ducing mines In this group which. Will
be opened up again soon.
John l.. Lewis has been reelected
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America by the larges, major
ity ever given candidate for head
of the union. Lewis majority over
Robert II. Harling of Washington is
between $4,000 and $1,000. II was an
nounced Philip Murray was re-elect-
cd vice president and William Green,
secretary-treasurer was returned TO
office without opposition.
samuel b. Montgomery West vir-
ginia state labor commissioner, intro
duced in the senate and house OF
delegates "hill of rights" TO check
labor strife In the state. The meas
ure would prevent employers from In
terfering with the rights of their em-
ployees TO belong to labor organiza-
lions. The law would provide pen
atty OF ten days Imprisonment and a
fine of from $50 to 5000
The latest compilation indicates
that there are now In Switzerland
IA 100000 unemployed persons. Many Of
these are workers In the watch and
textile industries Unemployment is
increasing daily throughout the 'eoun-
try.
Gadsen (Ala.) union printers volun-
tarIly reduced their pay from 75 cents
Il 65 cents an hour, effective at once.
! The printers gave as their reason for
the reduction. the belief thar the time
has arrived for labor TO DO its part in
returning conditions 10 normal
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