The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
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March" says the latest bulletin is.
sued by the New York State Depart
ment of Labor.
Enormous Slump.
This report covering the conditions
in the Empire State, goes on to say.
For the first time in two years wage
rate decreases were significant. A
year ago, in June, 1928, factory pay
rolls reached the highest point Of
the expansion in manufacturing
which was then under way. Weekly
payrolls were estimated to be at least
thirty-eight million dollars. This June
they were down to about thirty-two
and half million dollars. This is
cut of five and half million dol
lars in the weekly income of large
group of the population"
State Industrial Commissioner Ber-
nard L. Shientag further says that
THE heaviest drop in payrolls for
any group of industries is that in the
textiles" Conspicuous decreases have
also been noticed in the metal indus
tries, where payrolls have been cut in
half. In the automobile industries
payrolls have been cut one-third. In
all the wearing apparel industries,
clothing, mems shirts, underwear,
shoes and leather goods, the same
tendency has been evident.
Factory shut-Downs Continue.
At Lawrence, Mass, the Everett
Mills have just shut down for three
weeks after running half time for
while. In Lowell, Mass, the cotton
mills closed down for ten days after
operating on a three-day schedule for
two weeks. In Webster, Mass, it is
likely that the Slater company will
soon throw out of work fifteen hun
dred. The Amoskeag Manufacturing
company is planning to go on a three
day schedule.
A report just made public in Char
lotte, North Carolina, says that cot
ton mill curtailment in the state is
still twenty-five per cent.
Layoffs, Wage Cuts, Misery.
All Massachusetts shoe centers re-
port slackening in production. In
Brockton, Lynn, and Haverhill, op-
erations are below normal, about one
third capacity.
William Skinner and Sons, silk
manufacturers, the Lyman Cotton
Goods Mills, and the manufacturing
divisions of the American Thread
company have closed down for ten
days, according to Holyoke reports.
The Farr Alpaca company is also
closing. The Lockwood Cotton Mills,
at Waterville, Maine, has decided to
run on a four-day schedule all sum-
mer. Announcing it's decision to shut
down for another ten days, the Ham
ilton Wool company said: at is I'M
precedented in this company"
The International Paper company
mills at South Glens Falls, New York,
is still shut down. The Union Bag
and Paper Corporation, Hudson Falls,
Fort Edward Mills, is continuing to
operate on a four-day schedule. The
Dwight Manufacturing company of
Chicopee, Mass, is to run on three
day schedule.
The New London Ship and Engine
company has just laid off two hun
dred workers at New London.
The Reading Railroad company has
informed the four thousand men at
Reading shops and the several thou
sand more in its outlying plants, that
all shopmen are to work from now
on four eight-hour day schedule
week.
Wage Cuts Kept Up.
Wage reductions are continuing.
The Tamarack Mill at Pawtucket has
cut wages ten percent. In Philadel-
phia, there is talk of reducing the
wages of the clothing workers. In
Haverhill, Mass, the counter and top
lift manufacturers are demanding
that the Shoe Workers Protective
Union should accede to a wage cut
Of twelve and half per cent and
restoration Of Saturday morning
work Similar demands are being
made by the manufacturers in Brock
ton, Mass. The workers employed
by the Panther Rubber Company at
Stoughton, Mass, are on strike
against a twenty per cent wage cut.
After operating on part time for
several weeks, for the first time in
quarter Of century, the Spencer
Wire Company Mills, of the Wick
wire-Spencer Steel Corporation, has
decided to cut wages about ten per
cent.
Business Panorama Dark.
General production thruout the
country is, at the present time, run
ming fifteen per cent below normal"
says the last issue of Bache's Review.
The preliminary estimates issued
by the United States Geological Sur
vey show that the production of BIZ
luminous coal for June was the low
est on record except for the strike
year Of 1922. Anthracite output was
the lowest since June, 1919, except
for the strike months of 1922. The
Interstate Commerce Commission is
attemptinR IN haln the coal markef