Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-07-01
OTHER LABOR NOTES.

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be held At Quebec the second week OF
August.
Canadian railways. following the nc
ton Of roads across the border. took
preliminary steps 70 cut wages L. per
cent July I and later to revise work
Ink conditions.
Hod carriers and mortar mixers Of
Worcester. Mass. asked for an In
crease Of 1o cents an hour In pay.
They are now getting u and Is cents
an hour. respectively.
Decatur (ul.) carpenters allied with
the union have agreed to work for
% cents an hour, instead Of 81. the
scale previously In effect. but con
tractors wiz only pay 50 cents.
The Parker Hosiery mills, Frost
burg. Nd, which had been operating
on limited time for some months, an
nounced general improvement. In
conditions and orders sufficient 10
keep the plant operating at capacity
for many months.
At New Bedford. Mass. the Bakers
strike against the open shop ultimat.
um of the Master Bakers association.
has voted to accept the open shop
policy and the strike has been de-
clared on. The master bakers agreed
to take back the strikers as places
are available.
A contract on the 1920 basis. Of
wages and working conditions was
signed At Galveston. Texas. by the
Independent OH Transportation COM
pany and members Of the various
unions Of seafsring men. The COM
pany operates . number Of tugs en-
gagged In towing barges In the oil
trade In gulf waters.
The United States public health
service reports that out Of more than
] 900 miners who were examined ~
per cent showed definite signs OF dust
Injury to the lungs. II was found that
the death rate from tuberculosis in
Butte, Mont, In one year was nearly
IL times as great as that of the State
Of Michigan.
Three and one-hnlf cents bushel
for oats and cents for wheat will be
paid farm hands employed during the
tl,reshIng season, this scale being
fixed at a meeting Of the Central Illi-
noIs Farmers association. Last year
8 cents was paid for oats and I'D cents
pnid for wheat. The decrease In the
- oIr ua
given as the reason for the reduction
Newspaper composltors, of Boston,
who walked out, voted to return 10
work. The walkout did not have the
sanction Of the union, and when the
men quilt work they asserted that they
were acting as individuals. The pub
fishers announced that the men would
return under the wage scale and work
Ing conditions that prevailed when they
left work.
Milton Smelling, national president
of the Steam and Operating Engineers
union Of Washington. d. G.. who was
In Denver as delegate to the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor convention.
was found dead In bed. Mr.. Snelllngs.
who was fifty-two years old, had been
president of the union for the last
Ave wears, He also was a member
of the executive council of the Fed
eration's building trades department.
Acting upon orders received from
their international officers at Wash
,naton. members OF the marine engi.
neersp beneficial association in Raltl-
more called their strike on and ap-
plied for work. Twenty-Five Of the
men are hired by the representatives
Of the United States shipping board.
Announcement Of the abandonment OF
the strike was made by union OIL
cial.
officers and shop delegates Of the
International brotherhood OF Paper
makers and the International Brath=
erheod of Pulp Sulphite and Paper
Mil Workers drafted reply TO the
latest proposal of a group Of paper
manufacturers TO settle the strike In
many plants In the United States.
Canada and New Foundland The
officials declined to make public the
proposal Of the manufacturers or the
reply OF the unions.
Statistics compiled by the chill
dren's bureau OF the United States
Department Of Labor show that 10
1o4 minors took out permits In II
representative cities to go to work In
1920.
More than 10000 employees In
PENNSYLVANIA have been Ignoring the
workmen's compensation law. and to
end this condition the legislature
passed a bill which provides fine OF
81 a day for every day an employee
in not insured by his employer. Farm
,,orkers and household workers are