The Owosso times., 1922-03-31
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

| Union.
Two thousand persons stOrmed new
corn products plant, at Kansas City,
looking for work; 500 of them got
jobs.
The StimsOn Logging company near
Garden City, Wash, has employed a
large crew of men and expects to re-
| sumo logging operations about March
| g.
Married women would be given con-
| troll over wages earned by them with.
In the home by bill adopted by the
lower house of the New Jersey legis-
lature.
The American coal mine near Vim
cennes, Ind, the largest in the world.
voted % per cent to strike. Miners In
the Bicknell field voted % per cent
for strike.
Building trade employers of Cleve-
land, O., will make no effort to break
the existing tieup in the building in
dustry through the open shop, it was
announced.
The dock workers strike at Hong
Kong, China, has been called off and
the men are returning to work. ac-
cOrding to advices reaching the State
department
The red flag has been raised by the
striking miners on the Rand, in South
Africa, said dispatch from Johan-
nesburg to London. Nine more deaths
are reported.
Work of demolishing the Union sta
tion, gateway to Chicago for nearly
forty years, has been begun by wreck
ers, who started destruction of bag
gage section of old structure to make
way for new Union station construc-
tion.
The number of strikers returning to
work in the coal and gold mines of the
Rand districts OF South Africa is grow
ing rapidly and conditions are much
quieter, says Reuters dispatch from
Johannesburg. Nearly 5000 men, in-
Guiding officials, are now back at
work.
A strike affecting 5000 coal miners
In western Canada fields is threatened.
Robert Livett, chairman Of the scale
committee Of the United Mine Work
ers of America, declared that walk
out was possible in the event that
wage reductions announced were put
into effect. The territory affected is
district No. IS, comprising southern
Alberta and part of eastern British
Columbia.
The number Of unemployed in Penn
sylvania has decreased more than five
thousand in February, figures made
public by G. j. Connolly, commissioner
of labor and industry, show. The fig
ures were compiled from reports OF
the ten employment officers In the
state. March /, the unemployed to
tailed 30S,540, as compared with 313,-
$50 February ]. Philadelphia showed
the greatest decrease with approx
mately 400.
The number Of workers i'm the chief
industries of Detroit has almost dOu-
bled since March, 1921, according to a
report made public by the Employers
association. An increase Of S,664 work
ers was shown for February, as COM
pared to January of this year. The
total employed by the 70 manufacture
ing concerns holding membership in
this association was given as 12l, ,763,
as against 62,S7S year ago. These
plants normally employ 100000 work
ers.
Five hundred men who had been dis
missed from Henry Ford's factory at
Cork, Ireland, applied for out-Of-wOrk
pay at the employment exchange. They
had been discharged as the result
of FOrd's decision not to submit to
certain stipulations by the Cork cor
poratlon in regard to his works in
the city. All construction work and
erection of machinery and equipment
have been stopped. 1t is expected that
the dismissal OF hundreds more will
follow.
4 Mason contractors of LOrain, o., re-
jected compromise wage settlement of
S112h an hour TO May and $1.1O for
the remainder Of the year, offered by
an arbitration board representing Lo.
rain bricklayers. Holding out for a
fiat 81 an hour scale, the contractors
refused TO compromise other than to
offer to accept the scale that Is ar
rived at In Cleveland. Both proposals
were rejected by the briclslayers' ar
btration board. The contractors have
declared the 81 rate effective.
The Indiana Winona Interurban
Railway company has announced
general reduction in wages. Office
employees are cut So q month and road
men and all other employees two cents
an hour.
Miners employed at the Peabody
Coal company's mine, Danyille, ILL.,,
voted, 544 to IA, to go out on strike,
according to announcement made by
Edward Shaw, president of the Pea
body local. There are $3.50 coal min
ers employed in the district, but the
officers Of many Of the unions refused