The Owosso times., 1922-03-17
OTHER LABOR NOTES

lne 1nteTnutlOIlal Typographical
union has nearly 1000 members on
its old age pension roll
Luther Nj. Parker, formerly private
secretary of Vice Chairman Ben w.
Hooper of the railroad labor board,
was elected secretary of the board.
Through the British consul general
the Seamens union has submitted q
revised scale of wages as prelimi-
nary To the settlement Of the Hong
kong strike.
Railway telegraphers started fight
before United States railroad labor
board for punitive overtime after
eight hours and elimination Of the
"split trick"
Members Of Lorains CO., fire de-
4 partment notified Safety Director JO-
seph Gould that they would not vOlun-
teer 20 per cent reduction in salary.
Salary slashes, the firemen declared,
would work hardships because of the
high cost of living
Women employed in railroad shop
work decreased 500 per cent from 1919
to 1920, according to statistics of the
| Interstate commerce commission.
Women employed in clerical work in
creased 1875 per cent in the same pc
riod. Nearly 100000 women are at
present employed by the class 1 rail-
roads.
Nicholas Schiesler, newly elected
president of the Central Labor union
Of Akron, is the youngest presiding
officer the organization has had in its
history. Schiesler is twenty-six, and
was one of the organizers of the
Akron Bakery and Confectionery
union. He succeeds Sam Newman
as president.
Attempts to increase the working
day from eight to ten hours are being
opposed by Swiss government en-
ployees. About 25,OOO Of them took
part in a demonstration in Berne
against the bills recently introduced
in parliament to increase the working
hours and to diminish the allowances
made on account of the high cost Of
living.
Operations at the heavy repair shop
Of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
Cumberland, Nd, were resumed on a.
80 per cent basis, or with 325 mechan"
les and helpers, after two months sus.
pension. A gradual Improvement ir,
traffic over the Cumberland division.
was given as reason. 1t is expected
that the remaining 80 per cent of the
force will be called back soon.
Stories to the effect that the Ann
ArbOr railroad, whose shops at Owosso,
Mich, have been virtually closed down
for several weeks, was sending its
work out to be done by contract, were
denied by John Rae, superintendent Of
motive power recently, but Rae
declared that lack of business made
it necessary to close the shops and
that they would be opened again as
soon as business warranted.
Subject to referendum vote by all
members Of coal mine unions, na-
tionwide strike on April was ordered
by the convention Of the United Mine
Workers of America, which then ad-
journed. Disorder characterized the
session during prelimnaries to the
OlilCldl dnIioulCeIncnt lIidt IlOWut Huu
been rejected for reinstatement by
vote Of 2,O73 to 1855, majority Of
11S for the administration that ex-
PEELED him.
A considerable proportion pf the
dock workers and car drivers In the
London (Eng) area obeyed the in
structiOns of the National Federation
of Transport Workers for boycott
on beer, which Is an answer to the
alleged excessive price being charged
for this form Of beverage and the re-
cent cuts of workers wages by the
brewers. The federation, II is stated,
purposes making the boycott nation
wide. involving !. 100000 dock and road
transport workers.
The shipping trade in Liverpool,
England, was dislocated and steam
ships were unable to enter or leave
port owing to strike OF the tugboat |
men. The strike was agains. increased |
hours and reduced wages.
Following a canvass Of weavers and |
loom fixers in the Dwight mills an
nouncement was made that there will |
be no strike against the 10 per cent
wage cut. The workers failed In an
attempt to secure promise that there
would be no further reduction, 1t Is
said, before they took action on the
strike issue