The Owosso times., 1922-06-02
IN OTHER FIELCS OF LABOR

there are 100000 former wage earn
ers Idle in the civilized world.
The Canadian house of commons
adopted resolution calling for restrlc-
tive legislation against oriental mmi-
grafton into Canada.
Through mediation of Mayor Mnruin
striking longshoremen of Montreal
agreed to accept ten cents an hour
reduction. The agreement binds the
shipping federation to employ only
union men i'm the future.
One of the two Cleveland furnaces
of the Otis Steel company is pouring
iron for the first time in months The
Mckinney Steel company has just
blown in n second stack, which had
been banked for several weeks
The Davis and Puritan mines in the
GOGebic range has started operations.
Approximately 5000 men went to work
i'm the mines on the two ranges on a
siX-day-a-week basis. Heretofore they
had been working on a part-time basis.
]. II. Boardman, cotton mill opera
tor of Ramon Arisbe, Mexico, in asso-
citation with number of local busi-
ness men plan to build a cotton mill
at Eagle Pass, Texas. The proposed
plant will cost about 100000. MeXi-
can operatives will be employed, it is
stated.
A fight looms in the Kansas building
industry. Negotiations for wage con-
tracts to take the place of those that
expired May 1 were broken off when
building crafts refused to make new
contracts on the basis Of the 10 to Is
per cent wage reductions which build
ers asked for.
Plans for labor bank, the second
I'm the United States, were announced
by officials of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America in annual con-
ventiOn at Chicago. The first labor
bank was established five years ago in
Cleveland by the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Engineers and Firemen.
The National Industrial Conference
board says that for the first time in
many months slight wage increases
are reported from several industrial
centels. These increases may be
taken as Indicative partly of better
conditions in the plants concerned and
partly of greater demand for labor,
the board points out.
The advisory board of. the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers ratified
the joint resolution adopted in Chi
cago February 22 last at conference
railway unions for closer alliance be-
tween miners and the sixteen standard
railroad labor organizations. The en-
gineers are the first of the big Four"
brotherhOOds to ratify.
Tie British shipyard strike has been
called off because the union leaders
realized two or three weeks ago that
continued and successful resistance
to the employers demands was i'm
possible.
An air Of optimism prevailed in the
iron mining districts of the upper pen
insula of Michigan when the mining
properties of the Oliver Mining COM
pany of the Gogebic and MenOminee
ranges resumed operations on full
time basis.
Many weddings in the anthracite re-
giOn have been postponed until work
Is resumed at the mines. officials estl-
mated that licenses issued this year In
Luzerne and adjacent counties were
1850 below the average of former
years.
Minimum wages for experienced fe.
male labor Is to be reduced at Victoria,
b. C., following the receipt of protests
from manufacturers. The present
minimum wage Of $14 week will be
reduced by conference of three rep
resentatives of the employees. three of
the employers and three disinterested
persons.
German business men and manufac-
turers have so perfected the AssOcia-
tion Of German Employers societies
that they now form practically unit
ed front in the struggle against the
demands of the labor unions and the
legislative program of the radical par.
liamentarians, according to the bust.
ness report Of the association for 1921.
In Massachusetts last year 43,024
children between fourteen and sixteen
years Of age left school to go to work. |
The bill proposed in the Massachusetts
legislature to increase the compulsory
school age from fourteen to sixteen
has been unfavorably reported by the
on education.
The 500 officials increased the mum.
ber Of men employed In the shops nj
Stevens Point, Wis. to a total Of ais |
because Of the large number of freight
cars In need Of repairs. One hundred |
and twenty-five men were taken on
bv the raiIrO0d