The Owosso times., 1922-03-10
OTHER LABOR NOTES


piled to many classes of their en-
ployees.
William p. Kenneally, Tammany
district leader, was indicted with Rob-
ert =. Brindell. New York building
trades labor leader. for extortion.
The Chelsea China company's plant
at New Cumberland, w. Va, suspend
ed operations following the refusal Of
approximately $50 employees to accept
Il 10 per cent wage reduction.
At Farrell, Pa, the United States
Steel corporation made cut in rents
To tenants occupying the Ala houses
owned by the corporation. The reduc-
tions follow reductions in pay.
The 100000 labor temple dedicated
| to trade uniOnism in Portland, Ore,
has been completed. 1t is said to be
one of the finest structures of its kind
in the country.
Eighteen hundred members of the
Chicago Plumbers union, of which
William &. Curran, president of the
Building Trades council, is an official,
unanimously voted to repudiate the
Lands wage award for that trade and
to hold out for $1.10 an hour.
Miners at several of the thirteen
mines of the Cambridge (OhiO) Col
lieries company, where strike of
three thousand had existed, returned
to work following settlement of differ
ences arrived at in joint conference
| with operators.
Operations are increasing in the
Rand (South Africa) district, where
gold and coal miners have been on
strike for several weeks. Two mines
now have full compliments of white
workers. An attempt to dynamite a
tram line in one mine failed, the car
| passing over the explosive unharmed.
Approximately 1000 Cape Breton
miners who have been unemployed for
two months went back to work, when
the Dominion Coal company reopened
three large mines that closed down
about December 1. Other mines will
start production as soon as arrange
ments can be made.
No women will be employed as for
est fire lOOkouts in the Pacific North
west this year, according to announce
ment received at Eugene, Ore, from
the district forester's office. The lack
of employment among men is the rea-
son given for excluding women from
the service this year.
All job printing plants in Quebec,
Canada, were affected by strike of
printers who demanded a 44-hour
week. Several hundred quit work.
Premier Taschereau in q telegram to
Tom Moore, president of the Dominion
Trades and Labor congress, denounced
the strike as an effort to embarrass
the government.
Owners of the textile mills in Paw
tuXet valley made a joint demand up
on Gov San Souci for the immediate
dispatch Of National Guard troops to
that district to protect their property.
Shortly before the mill men met the
governor had issued orders for the dis
missal Of the two troops Of cavalry
called out.
Attorney General Daugherty has
promised TO promulgate in the near fu-
ture new government policy toward
industrial disputes in general. The in
formation that he is now receiving
from his agents is being gone over by
officials of the Department of Justice
in preparation for the drafting of this
policy.
State Labor Commissioner Gramm,
called to arbitrate a dispute between
the Hood River (Ore.) cannery and
employees, made an award in favor
of the latter. The necessity of ad-
judicatiOn, he said, rose over misun-
derstanding Of action Of Il. B. Cloud,
manager of the canning plant, in with
holding a small percentage of wages
as an inducement to maintain a full
working force throughout the season.
Iowa is one of the states which does
not limit the number Of hours by day
or week that woman may work. II
is one Of the states allowing night
work for women without restriction,
and II is one Of the backward states
In which inadequate labor laws permit
low standards of working conditions
for women. Such are the outstanding
facts In report recently published by
the women's bureau of the United
States Department of Labor, entitled
"IOwa Women In Industry" and based
on statewide survey made I'm the fall
of 1920.
Widespread unemployment Is noted
In the principal steel towns of Scotland
and northern and central England.
With the exception of tin plate work
in southern Wales, II is doubtful
whether more than one-fOurth, and
certainly not above One-third. of nor.
NAL activity is now being maintained
In the British steel industry.
British alrplane operators and mech.
anicians have formed trade union 10
protect the interests and remedy tn,
grievances of the aerial taxi drivers.
The present pay of pilots is fl2 (about
$50) q week.