The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-03-04
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Virginia has 100000 wage-earning
women.
Detroit has 81 motor-manufacturing
plants and 219 accessory factories.
Thirty-two states in the Union en-
ploy convict labor on the roads.
The sewing machine industry is CEN
tered largely in Indiana and Illinois.
More than 100000 people are en-
ployed in the automobile industry in
France.
Only about so per cent of the lum-
Der mills in British Columbia are in
operation at the present time.
Announcements were made Of the
shutting down or curtailing of large
industrial plants at Elizabeth, N. J.
More than 100000 tons of bitumi-
nous coal were produced in the United
States during the week of Novem-
Der 10.
The railway mems strike in Norway
ended in a complete capitulation of
the strikers, who won nothing of what
they demanded.
The Utah Copper company an
nounced a cut of 81 day, effective
January l, on miners wages. Lead
miners pay is cut IS cents day.
Austrian federal employees who re-
Gently struck for increased wages
agreed to return to work. The gov
eminent conceded all their demands.
Three hundred and thirty-one en-
ployees of the Southern Pacific shops
at Tucson, Ariz., were laid off. Eighty
eight were laid off a short time ago.
r. B. Russell, Winnipeg strike lead
err. was released on parole from Stony
| Mountain peritentiary after serving
| half his two-year sentence for seditious
conspiracy
| Reductions of wages for farm labor
of from 25 TO so cents day were put
into effect by the Valley Fruit Growers
association a large California farmers
organization.
A voluntary wage reduction Of 10
per cent was voted by employees Of
B. A. Corbin g. Sons, shoe manufac-
army shoe contract
A general strike of railway teleg-
rapherS and station agents in Mexico.
has been avprted. Several demands
made b. the men have been granted
| and others submitted to arbitration.
A net decrease Of 7S6 in the number
of active COKE ovens in the COnnells-
vile (Pa.) district is reported. This
does not Include about 800 others
which hay, closed for an indefinite
periOo.
At st. Jcnn, N B., the Cornwall and
York cotton mills announced that they
would start operating on a fOur-day
week, instead OF a five and half, be-
cause of increased demand for their
products.
The 100 operatives of the Naum-
keag Steam Cotton company. Salem
Mass, were notified that the company
will continue operating the mills with
no IMMEDIATE reduction in the rate of
wages and no curtailment of working
hours.
TIT; mines and smelter of the Cana
nea Consolidated Copper company at
Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, forty miles
south of Bisbee, Ariz, have closed
dowu. The Cananea Consolidated is
the largest American-Owned copper
company operating in Sonora, and en-
ploys at present approximately 1000
men, most of them MeXlcans.
AT St Louis, Federal Judge Faris
granted a permanent injunction re-
| straining the United Leather Workers
| International union from picketing or
| interfering with the business of To-
cal trunk manufacturer, where 1000
employees are on strike. Simultane-
OnSly he issued il temporary order
against the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Of America, prohibiting in
reference with the business of several
local clothing concerns where strikes
are in effect.
Men brought to Denver to break the
strike of Denver tramway employees
August last wore supplied with rifles
and ammunition the property of the
state of Colorado. according to a re-
port prepared BY investigators in
church and social service of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ
in America; the Department of Social
Action of the National Catholic We'll
fare council. and Denver church
commission The strike resulted in
seven deaths and much rioting.
Following a conference here between
Assistant General Manager Thiehoff
and superintendent Of the Burlington
railroad west of the Missouri river, it
was announced chat an order had been
issued reducing working forces from
5 to per cent.
A strike against the closed garment
plant of the Cohen, Friedlander &
Martin company, Toledo, Ohio, was
declared by the Garment Workers
union. The plant was closed because
of adverse business conditions" ac-
cording to an announcement which fol-
loHed SUSPENSION of work.