The Owosso times., 1922-07-07
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Existing coal mines in this country
,an produce from 7OO,OOO,0OO to 900,-
100000 tons year.
Coal miners and operators of Penn
sylvania are estimated to have lost
$145OS0,2 232 by the present coal strike
in figures issued by DR.. G. B. Con-
nelley, state commissioner of labor
and industry, after study Of reports
TO the departments mediation bureau.
Ten thousand workers on children's
garments stopped work as the result
Of general order by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America which is
conducting campaign to eliminate the
nonunion shops in New York.
Among the large number of harvest
hands arriving at Wichita, Kan have
been several striking coal miners from
the Terr0 Haute, Und.) district. A
large number of the miners in the In
diana district expect to make the Kan
sas and Oklahoma harvest this year.
The Martins Ferry (Ohio) plant of
the Whitaker -Glessner company,
Wheeling Steel corporation subsidiary,
resumed operations on "open- shop"
basis after being idle since last July
after the company had refused to
again sign union scale. Only two
of the six sheet mills were put to
work.
Unless wages of common labor In
the steel plants are increased" Michael
+. Tighe, president of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, declared, "the industry is
faced with serious shortage. Men
will not work for such meager pay as
common laborers. AS business revives
they will go into other lines, as they
are now doing"
At the annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor, Presi-
dent Gompers called attention to the
Washington armaments conference and
declared that organized labor, at It's
Denver convention in 1921, instigated
what has proved to be "the greatest
contribution to international peace"
He asserted that labor "is ready to
meet its antagonists" more firmly de-
termined than ever before.
BY 76,47S votes against 39,423, the
British Amalgamated Engineering
union voted for acceptance of the en-
ployers' proposals for the settlement
of the lockout In the engineering in
dustry. Arrangements have been made
for the resumption Of work immedi-
ately. The Bolermakers' society and
the Foundry Workers union are eX-
pected to join the agreement.
A wage increase of five cents an
hour has been agreed upon between
employers and employees in confer
ences at Bellingham, Seattle and Ia
coma, Wash. An increase of 25 cents
day has been granted workers in
the Grays HarbOr district Further
increases are expected in other dis
tricts of Oregon and Washington.
A wage reduction of 5.45 per cent
for the motOrmen and conductors en-
ployed by the Connecticut company
on all its lines in the state was an
nounced by the arbitration board. The
maximum rate is ordered cut from 80
to 81 cents an hour. The intermediate
rate is fixed at 4S cents and the mini
mum at 45 cents. The scale for OPP
orators of one man cars is set at
seven cents an hour above the regular
rates.
There has been for sometime an ex-
tensive textile strike in progress in
certain eastern states. The mill
owners refuse to open their books for
investigation. The World Tomorrow
observes: "This old question con-
fronts us again: Whose business is IL,
anyway? The Amalgamated Textile
Workers have just published the re-
suits of a special study made for them
by the Labor Bureau, Inc, of New
York, which shows the high profits
earned by cotton manufacturers In re-
cent years while the average Individual
wages have been below the lowest
estimated minimum for health and
decency."
Employees of leading Chicago
clothing house have been insured by
the company for 100000, II was an
nounced Every worker Is insured for
an amount between $500 and $1,000,
with the company paying half the
premium.
Most of the carpenters and track |
men m the maintenance Of way de- |
partment of the Big Four railroad at
Gallon, Ohio, went on strike as pre-
test against the contract system and
the ten-hour day schedule just in |
augurated. All of the men out are
members Of the brotherhood.