The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

Employees of the Orient mine, West
| Franklin. ILL.,, voted S65 to "a. to strike
State control of night work for
women exists only In IA states of the
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
| large crew of men and expects to re-
! sumo logging operations about March
I6.
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 SO per cent to strike. Miners In
the Bicknell field voted 80 per cent
| for a 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, 1t 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 a dispatch from Johan-
nesburg to London. Nine more deaths
are reported.
Work Of demoiishing the Union sta
tion, gateway to Chicago for nearly
forty years. has been begun by wreck
gage section of old structure to make
way for new Union station construc-
| ton.
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
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 a 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. B. Connolly, commissioner
Of labor and industry, show. The fig
ures were compiled from reports of
the ten employment officers in the
state March l. the unemployed to-
tailed 30S, S,540 as compared with 313,-
$50 February l. Philadelphia showed
the greatest decrease with approx
mately 400.
The number of workers In the chief
industries of Detroit has almost dou-
bled since March, 1921, according to q
report made public by the Employers
association An increase OF 1864 work
ers was shown for February, as com.
pared to January of this year. The
total employed by the 70 manufactur-
ing concerns holding membership in
this association was given as 121 ,763,
as against 62878 a year ago These
plants normally employ 100000 work
ers
Five hundred men who had been dis
missed from Henry Fords factory al
Cork, Ireland, applied for out-of-wors
, pay at the employment exchange They
had been discharged as the result
of Ford's decision not to submit tc
certain stipulations by the Cork cor
poration in regard to his works in
the city. All construction work anC
erection of machinery and equipment
have been stopped 1t is expected that
the dismissal of hundreds more vii
follow.
Mason contractors of Lorain, o., re
jected compromise wage settlement o.
S1121a an hour to May l and $1.10 fol
| the remainder OF the year, OueTcu u.
an arbitration board representing Lo
e | rain bricklayers. Holding out for {
fiat ST an hour scale, the contractor
refused to compromise other than t
offer 10 accept the scale that is ar
5 rived at In Cleveland Both proposals.
S were rejected by the bricklayers ar
y bitration board. The contractors hav
declared the ST rate effective.
The Indiana Winona Interurbal
: Railway company has announced
d general reduction in wages. Oftic
> employees are cut SIS month and roa
u men and all other employees two cent
Z an hour.
: Miners employed at the Peabod
4 Coal company's mine, Danville, Ill
7 voted, 544 to Ia to go out on strike
q according to announcement made b
4 Edward Shaw, president Of the Pea
3 body local There are 1850 coal mir
d ers employed in the district, but tn
+ officers of many of the unions refuse
Il to announce the vote.