Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-05-18
OTHER LABOR NOTES

thracite fields, 459,971, ,07O tons Of
coal were mined in the United States
in 1919.
Thomas Burt, veteran miners lead
er and the first miner elected to the
British parliament, died at his home
in Newcastle.
The California industrial welfare
commission announced a reduction of
the minimum weekly wage for women
from SIG to SIS.
James Sinclair Taylor McGowen is
dead, according to an announcement
made at Sydney, N. S. w. He was the
first labor premier Of New South
Wales.
The Manchester IN. H.) finance com
mission announced a cut Of 10 cents an
hour in the wages Of city laborers, ef-
fective April 10. The new rate will be
40 cents an hour.
Some 100000 men and women
gainfully employed in this country
probably lose ON an average more
than eight days each annually from
illness disabilities.
Work for 10000 men for two years
will be provided by the underground
groups Of railways in London, Eng
land, which soon will commence i'm
pOrtant extensions.
Clerks employed in Pittsburg (Kan.)
stores returned to work after their
two-day strike following an agree
ment reached with the merchants Or
ganization. The clerks had demanded
some closing hour conditions which
| the merchants refused. An agree
ment was reached on compromise.
The furloughs on the west end of
the Cumberland division of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad from Keyser,
w. Va, to Grafton, have reached 633,
with the laying off Of the entire helper
force at Hardman, w. Va, of eight
crews. The company has held its
force at Cumberland for traffic from
nonunion coal fields.
The building trades tie-up that has
blocked construction in Cleveland
since March 1, apparently was ended
when notification was sent to all con-
tractor members of the Building
Trades Employers association author
izing them to resume work, paying the
1921 wage scale.
Closing of steel mills in some parts
of the country is not due to a shortage
of coal resulting from the strike, Sec
retary of Commerce Hoover said.
Hoover estimated the steel mills were
supplied with a 6O-day stock of coal.
Hoover said the strike had no disturb
ing effect on industry generally.
A decrease Of 10 cents an hour in
the wages of union carpenters was de-
cided upon at a meeting of eight of
the leading contractors of Hagers-
town, Md. The contractors also de-
cided to require the men to work nine
hours a day instead of eight. They
will be required to work five hours on
Saturday as against four hours they
now work.
Walkout of paper mill employees of
the Fox River valley (Wis.) plants,
following a 4-cent-an-hour cut in
wages, has practically ended. Work
ers of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper
company at Kaukauna accepted the
reduction and compromise wage of
80 cents caused the resumption at the
Gilbert Paper cOmpany's plant in Me-
nasha. Other mills in Neenah and
Menasha resumed pending negotia-
tions.
As a protest against the imposition
of the so-called american plan" or
"open Shop" on all working men
throughout the San Francisco bay
cities 2,1O0 building trades me-
chanics walked out from their jobs.
This walkOut officially represents five
of the strongest unions in the bay dis
trict and announcement is made that
if the strike of this small number is
ineffective all the building trades
workers will walk out.
Eastern railroad managers have
asked the United States railroad labor
board for a flat wage reduction of Z
cents an hour for clerical and station
forces. John G.. Walber, representing
the railroads. asked the wage average
of 34.4 cents an hour for these groups.
The employees have asked for an av-
erage of 1921 cents an hour. The
new scale proposed by the railroads
for clerks was $50 month for mex
perienced men and up to $3.50 for ex-
perienced help.
The New York Central line has
placed an order for 10000 freight cars
and rs switching locomotives, declared
to be the largest equipment order
placed by an American railroad this
year.
A wage cut for railroad maintenance
of way men will mean thousands Of
deaths from starvation and exposure
among their families, according to a
statement before the railroad labor
board by w. Jett Lauck, economic ad-
wiser. He urged that testimony Of y.
s. Warren, assistant United States sur
Reon general. be taken.