Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-25
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Canada has 76 textile mills employ
Ing about 700 workers.
Mineral production In Canada dur
ing 1920 reached total OF $2oO,ooo,-
900.
The Ware (Mass.) Wooden mills re-
opened on full time. The mills nave
been closed for more than month.
A bill has been introduced In the
New York assembly to place women
on an equal footing with men In IN
dustry.
Industries for domestic consumption
In Finland employed 66,695 laborers
In 1919, while those for expectation
employed 33,14o.
The Howard Smith Paper company
| Cornwall Ont, which has been oper.
ated only four days a week, has re-
| duced wages 10 per cent.
| 1t Is claimed that there are close to
$50 American-owned plants in Can
N saH ri, great variety q
Spanish Industry is In serious straits
owing to unwise embargoes and the
fact that markets are glutted with
cheap German goods. About 100000
men are without work.
Approximately 1000 men returned
to work at Canton. Ohio. when opera
lions were resumed at the Berger Man
ufacturlng company, and the Stark
Rolling Mil company plants.
The Palmetto Coal company, operat-
Ing mines at Cartwright, near Sequat-
chic. Tenn, announced % per cent
reduction In wages of miners. which
has been accepted by most of the EN-
ployees.
At present 4,032 dwellings are being
| constructed In Amsterdam. or these
2,217 are being built by societies of
different kinds, 1,543 by the munich
pality and 272 called middle class"
by private individuals.
Union bricklayers of Kenosha, Wis,
accepted the proposed wage cut from
$1.121s an hour to ST an hour. This
action Is believed TO assure that other
unions In the building crafts will ac-
cept reductions proposed by the mas
ter builders. The carpenters have
been getting S1.25 an hour and employ
ers offer 81 an hour
Membership In labor unions In the
state of Missouri exceeds 100000, acr
eording to figures complied by A. Il.
Edmonston. supervisor of statistics In
the Office of William A. Lewis. state
commissioner of labor. The figures
show 1925 of the total membership
is affiliated with the American Fedora
tion of Labor and the Missouri Fed
GRAFTON of labor
Twelve thousand employees of milk
distributing concerns In the metropoli-
tan district of Greater New York were
denied wage increases by the board
of arbitration appointed last fall TO
consider their differences with employ
ers. The board based It's decision
largely on equal and prospective de-
creases In the cost of living.
The demand OF the Trades and
Labor Council of Manitoba for legis-
iation authorizing an eight-hour work
day In the province has aroused keen
speculation in political circles. The
question arose last year, but when
1t was suggested that Jurisdiction in
the matter lay with the federal gov
eminent, the matter was submitted 10
the courts, and the chief justice of
Canada ruled that IT rests with the
provinces whether such laws viii be
passed or not.
The Erie railroad. which recently re-
dnced Its pay roll, put practically all
Its working force on the five-day week
In order TO effect further economy.
Revenue is not coming In sufficiently
to carry the present load" the an
nouncement said.
The metal trades council, represent
Ing $500 men, employed at the G. NJ.
Standifer Construction companys ship
yards, Vancouver. b. c., voted to ac-
cept reduction In pay of from g to
cents an hour rather than the COM
pany should reduce the number of it's
employees.