The Owosso times., 1922-06-16
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Salary increases for about 100
Aurora CIll.) public school teachers
have been voted. They range from $50
to 500 year.
Despite the many differences In
caste and tribal relations, trade union
ism is said to be making remarkable
headway in India.
Bellingham (Wash.) coal mines,
closed since April l by the strike Of
miners, reOpened on the "open-shop"
basis. The 1919 scale will be paid.
One thousand men were back at
work in the paper mills at Interna-
tional Falls, Mimi, and Fort Frances,
Ont, after settling two days. strike.
The Lynchburg (Va.) street railway
has advised its carmen that their
wages will be cut. Last October the
men had a cut. The two reductions
amount to around 20 per cent.
Cotton manufacturing is still ham,
pered by industrial controversy. In
April, 1921, in 62 plants covered, per
capita earnings were $17.05 a week.
This April they were $15.02, II per
cent drop.
Cotton spinning activity showed a
marked decrease in April as CON-
pared with March and with April of
last year. Census bureau statistics
showed 6,625, ,666,969 active spindle
hours during April, compared with T.
779,3SO,7O3 in March this year.
The United Cloth Hat and Cap Max.
ers' union, which recently sent $500 to
striking cap makers in Paris, have re-
ceived letter from the union there
stating that the strike has been won
with 20 per cent increase in wages.
The French cap makers also announce
that they intend to establish q cooper
ative factory.
Whiteford r. Cole, president Of the
Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
railway in an interview, said the rail.
way situation is calculated to prove
disastrous" unless the threatened con-
dition can be averted by a favorable
and early decision of the federal labor
board on the application of the rail-
ways for wage reduction.
Official entrance into politics by the
international Brotherhood of LOcomO-
tive Firemen and Enginemen as an or
ganiZation to cooperate with other la
Dor organizations was embodied in a
motion passed at the convention of the
brotherhood. Political activity on the
part Of the brotherhood heretofore has
been prohibited by the organization
laws.
The convention of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman
and Enginemen took definite action to-
, ward amalgamation with the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers with
the adoption of motion authorizing
q special commission to meet with a
similar body from the engineers broth
erho0d to work out complete plan for
the consolidation Of the two brother
hoods.
Three hundred workers returned to
their jobs at the Lorain CO., plant Of
the American Shipbuilding company,
bringing to close a strike which has
been in progress since May 1. Both
sides agreed on a compromise. Agree
ment reached includes nine-hour day,
Saturday afternoons off during June,
July and August, 8 cents an hour re-
duction for pieceworkers and restora-
tion Of pre-strike wage scales for day
workers.
Skilled miners, trammers, shop men
and others who have for years been
employed In the Lake Superior camps
have lately been leaving the district in
great numbers, the majority of them
going to Detroit to seek work In auto
mobile factories. which are operating
at nearly 100 per cent. This consti-
tutes serious drain on the trained
labor Of this district and the mining
companies will face serious condi-
tion as a result. rf
The French Worsted company's mill,
Woonsocket, r. l., at which $50 spin
ners went on strike May II, was closed
by 450 additional employees refusing
to go to work. Objection to the EN-.
ployment of a certain overseer was
said to have been the original cause Of
the strike.
Foundrymen and other workers en-
ployed in New York electrotyping
plants will continue to receive $3.50 a
week under an arbitration decision.
The employers had sought reduction
TO S52 a week. The. decision affects
$50 mechanics In 45 foundries.