Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-29
OTHER LABOR NOTES

| operations by the Federal Motor Truck
company was announced
More than 10000 clgarmakers struck
at Manila as n protest against a 20
per cent reduction In wages. Twenty
three factories were affected.
An order notifying employees Of the
Chicago Great Western shops of lay
off April 2 was given out at Oelwein,
Iowa.
Carpenters Local, No. 427. the larg-
est union local In Omaha, voted to ac-
cept n 10 per cent wage reduction, eff
| fective April /.
Fifteen hundred workers have been
made idle through the closing of the
| Ford Tractor works, Cork, Ireland. 1t
was stated that the plant might be
shut down for several months.
Work In the Anaconda Copper Min
| ing company's mines at Butte, Mont,
stopped. Shelter operations will cease.
IT was stated. Upward of 1900 men
will be affected.
Union paperhangers, who had been
on strike since March l, returned to
work at st. Louis when their demand
| for a wage increase from 81 to SIPS
an hour was granted.
The Dold Packing company, Omaha.
Neb., has cut pay 1914 per cent for
piece work and 8 cents an hour for
hourly work, but retains the eight
hour day.
The Southern Pacific lines notice
Of reduction In working force has
been recalled and the present force OF
$4,000 men will continue at work, 1t
has been officially announced.
Eight sheet mills at the plant of the
Whitaker Glossner company, Ports
mouth Ohio. resumed. The mills have
been idle for several months. This
resumption gave employment to APP
proxlmately $50.
The Standard Tinplate works at
Canonsburg, Pa, will resume opera
tions at once. The plant has been
closed since March 8. All of the 2,400
employees will return to work when
the plant re-opens.
Shop employees of the Central OF
New Jersey railroad refused to agree
to the wage cuts proposed by the
roads. Similar action was taken by
the employees of the Philadelphia and
Reading marine department.
More than two-thirds of the en-
ployees of the Durham IN. CD hosiery
mills, who quit their Jobs because of
1914 per cent reduction in wages,
To hAf 10 o1xr
tage of the arrangements promises to
give them their jobs back should they
fail TO find more remunerative work
The Whyte and Wyckoff Manufac.
| turing company, one of the largest
papeterie concerns In the Connecticut
valley, closed its plant for week,
with the announcement that when
operation was resumed 1t would be
under wage revision in keeping with
present business conditions. Several
hundred persons were affected.
The union painters of Binghamton.
n. Y, are the first of the trades or
CARNATIONS to accept a cut in wages
1t was announced that the men had
agreed TO accept a reduction of Is
cents an hour, accepting employment
at 10 cents instead of 90 cents an
hour. the wage scale that has pre-
vailed up to the present time.
More than 1000 men will be re-
employed by the Firestone Tire and
Rubber company during this month.
Production will be increased nearly 30
per cent. 1t is expected to reach TO-
900 tires day, due, 1t is stated, to
substantial increases in original equip
ment business from automobile fac
tories which are beginning to resume
work.
Officials of the Chicago Building
Trades council rejected proposal by
the Building Contractors association
to reduce wages of mechanics and
laborers. The union men were in
formed that, IL they would agree to
accept 81 an hour for skilled mechan-
les and 20 cents for building laborers,
contracts for S100,000,000 worth of
new buildings would be let within 80
days. The present wage scale Is $125
an hour for mechanics and 81 for
laborers.
With the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company's announcement that 1900
men would be re-employed, and with
all other rubber companies reporting
increased sales, 1t is expected that
5000 of Akron's idle factory workers
will be back at work before May l.
Birmingham. Ala, union coal min
ers were warned, in an official state
ment issued by Van l.. Bittner, inter-
national representative, that they must
Immediately secure work, in order TO
take care OF themselves and their
families, as the union benefits must
cease.