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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Women In Industry
Did Not Increase

Washington, July 27.--In a pamph.
let entitled Facts About Working
Women" issued by the United States
women's bureau. il is shown that dur
ing the period i9l0-l920 there Was
practically no increase in the number
of women employed in manufactur.
ing and mechanical industries. The
figures are taken from the United
States census.
In 1910 the women thus employed
totaled l,S20,570. or 22.5 per cent of
the S,075,772 over 10 years of age
engaged in gainful occupations,
In 1920 the number of women em-
ployed in manufacturing and mechani-
cal industries was l,93034l, or 22.6
per cent of the grand total. This is
but an increase of one-tenth of l per
cent over 1910.
The largest gain in the l0-yeai
period was in clerical occupations
In 1910 the number was 593,224, oi
7.3 per cent of the total. In 1920 the
number increased % i,426,ll6, OF lb,I
per cent.
The number engaged in domestic
ard personal service declined from
1881 POI, or 31.3 per cent, in 1910, tC
2,1S6,924, or 25.6 per cent, in 1920.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Negro Health Week
Productive of Much
Good. Cumming Says

&, International Labor News Service
Washington. n. G., July s7s@fresi.
dent kahefl K. Morton. Of he fas-
kegee Normal and Industrial lasu
ta,e, IN a communication drested =
surgeon General Hugh ). Cumming
Uuilea States Public Health Service
directs attention 10 the National
Negro Health Week having grown IN
scope and influence. 50 that noW II
may be tegapied as an institution det,-
uiteiy contributing ia better health
habits and the prevention Of disease,
The helpful assistance rendered eN
the Division Of Nenereal Diseases, IN
the preparation Of the Health Week
Bulletin and in otherwise eooperating
in the promotion of the Negro Health
Week. facilitated the progress and
success q this health campaign
Surgeon General Cumming feels
grauhed with the results Of the Negtu
avalth Meek and he considers il pro.
dueiiNe et the utmost Food. Popular
educational publicity regarding the
prevalence aud prevention Of venefeal
and either diseases Is economically and
social, productive and essential a. j
health measure aiming at the promo
ton Of the best interests Of the people
Though the effective cooperation iune
tiening ef the Federal and State
health agencies, Cumming thinks.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Policy of Inaction
Abandoned BY Labor

St. Paul, Mimi, July 27.--Organ
lied workers are arranging for re
vival of trade unionism in this city
Committees are visiting locals am
these are appointing active commit
tees.
THE general industrial depression
and antagonisms against the unions
during the past four years have al
tested the spirit and the size of the
unions" says the Minnesota Union
Advocate. This distracting influence
has been manifested in the relaxation
of organization activity. Workers
now realize the peril their defense
less condition places them in, and they
are ready to again become active.
MANY thousands of helpless work
ers, ignorant of the methods and pur-
poses of organized labor, have been
brought into our midst, and are used
20 prevent improvement in labor con-
dttionS.
''The work calls for personal, spe-
cial and general effort. II Is intended
to provide facilities for doing every
form of work and making it possible
to bring the message of organization
to the attention and understanding OF
every unorganized worker in the city.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Labor To Renew Fight
For Child Amendment

Aberdeen. Wa. July 27.-The
state federat.aa II labor convention
here voted / sa late wide con.
ference 10 plal renewal OF the hRh'
for the federal enid labor amendment.
Speaker representing the Amen,
can legion, the state federation oi
women clubs, the parent-teachsi
association and other civic and wei
fare groups assured the trade union
lists Of their support -.
The convention gave notice 70 Hos
erpor Hartley that the recall might
he applied to him. The state eNec9.
tive was declared 10 be on untnenaig
terms with every one In the state , Dul
the timber and allied Interests. Inc
unionists called attention 10 the hp1
pointment Of the wife Of q large can.
pery owner as director OF women IN
Industry charged with the enforce
ment Of women hour and wage Ia" =
as a sample Of the governor interest
In Washingtou's wage eHners. 49,.
His first public uitetance' i uuIlns
his inaugural address, when ne lsfii,to l',
,b. wage worker and other support
ors Of the child labor amendmee9t o'l.
sbevjsts' and "pusillanimous blatheII
sLi,es' Wa fal' EXPIRE i've OF n,s
mental attitude toward labor ana lts
friends" the convention declared.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Trend From Farm
To City Continues

Washington, July 27.-That the in,
dustrial worker should be interested
in a solution of the farm question Is
again emphasized by government re-
In a survey by the department OF
agriculture, il is shown that agrleul-
tural workers, farm tenants and farm f
owners are hocking to cities by the
thousands. This influx increases the
competition for jobs in industry ano m
makes the farm question of hrst IN
portance to city workers.
The survey reveals that on on son Jangary 1
a. a. hired Iaborers on farms than on
January /, 1924. These figures do
not include migratory workers, E ii,le pos
on pp farms at least 30 days. Other iig-
ures Ui = show that thousands of farm
tenants and farm owners and Their
families have left the farms.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31

Amendments to the workmen's COM
pensation law increase compensation
to inquired workmen and their widows
and orphans where death results ap-
proximately Sl,250'000 a year.
An electrical workers qualification
law was passed.
A bill was enacted providing for
an increase in pay from So TO 50 day
for petit jurors. This will enable
wage earners to serve on junes with
out too great a sacrifice In their
wages.
An amendment to the. hard roads
law provides for reimbursement OF
owners of property abutting on the
many thousands of miles of hard
roads, who have been heavily assessed
the assessments sometimes almost
amounting to confiscatlon oil the
homes of poor people.
Several bills pertaining to the De
partment of Mines and Minino were
passed, all favorable, and an addi-
tional inspector of railroad equipment
with view of safety was provided
for. An appropriation sufficient 10
provide for IL additional deputy fac
tory inspectors also was obtained.
Pension Laws Are Improved.
The law relating to the education OF
crippled children and the mothers
pension law were improved. The age
limit of children who may be helped
under the latter law was raised from
Ia to 10 years. Glasses for instfuc'
ton of crippled children may now be
formed even though there be but one
such child IN school.
The woman's eight-hour bill was de-
feated and the resolution in reference
to the child labor amendment was not
reported out of committee. 1t Is
probable that the latter measure Will
be taken up at the 1927 session and
put through.
All bills hostile to the best interests
of labor, organized or unorganized'
were defeated.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Canadian unionists
Aid Chinese Workers

Vancouver. British Columbia. July
27.--The trades and labor council de.
mands that those responsible for fin.
ing on unarmed striking Cinnamon at
Shanghai be punished, Indemnity fol
the families OF the killed and injured
and the withdrawal OF foreign war.
ships from China ale also demanded,
The trouble can he traced 10 brutal
treatment and starvation wages paid
Chinese workers by foreign eNploiteIs
according 10 the Chinese benevolent
association cf Vancouver The strike
stalted. a, fsingtal, neai Shanghai
in cotton mills owned by japanese
capitalists. The mills employ child
labor ba,Weea ana ~ yeals of aye
Working conditions include the i2
hour day, the seven-day week. holi.
day on rare occasions and So a montl
in Shanghai money.
\ commission of which one-hal'
were mill owners investigated the
conditions and agreed To their G
lectness. The mill foromen ale Jap
anese. II the children attempted Il
play they were beaten. II the natent
object, they, too, were victims OF TN
brutality.
The 1'singtao workeis struck, an
later the Shanghai worker Joined l
sympathy. The latter parade.i ami In
police intetfered. One striker VA
killed. Shanghai students then AZ
ranged a demonstration. but were sho
down by Indian police, led by Bfitisl
officers
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
1925 Banner Automobile
Year, Best In History

Washington, d. c., July H.-lhe
present year on the basis oil present
promises may surpass all records toi
automobile production. For the hfsl
six months Of the year the produc-
ton Of passenger cars In this country
and Canada has surpassed all records
for similar months Of previous years.
The total production Of passenger
cars for the first half Of the. year
was i.g3B700, according 10 the iiguies
Of the Commerce Department. For
the first six months last year total
production was l,S52,l37. This va.
slightly greater than in the first hali
Of 1923. 100
The record Of the first half Of 1927
has been made despite a eompafa-
lively poor start. In January, w.
for instance, production was Z93,ez4
cars, while in January, 1925, II wa
only Zl2,92l. February, 1924, pro
duction was nearly 100000 car aheaf
Of February, 1925.
However. after March the produc
ton Of 1924 began TO fall of. Thl'
year production did not reach its ful
height until April. The output Of MAJ
and June did not quite equal the rec
ord April figure but they were 50 IA
ahead Of The similar months in l92
that the six months total this yea
was carried above last.
Because Of the decline in the latte
half Of 1924 the total production 70
the full year was below the preyiou
y months. Production now is holding
Up better.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Building at New
High Record, Heavy
Activity in 1921

BY international Labor News Service.
Washington. d. &. July 27.-Build-
ing activity in the United States nov
Is AT a higher level than il ever A.
been. The present building rate Is
above tue two previous years, WINCH.
prior to 1925, had outstnpped all for
mer records.
Data received by the Department
Of Commerce shows that in June this
year the volume of building was Il
per cent above the level of 1913. Last
June the volume Was 20 per cent
above the level Of 1913. In May the
level was g. per cent above 1918, com,
pared with % per cent last May
Each month this year has been ahead
of the corresponding month last year
according to the Commerce Depart
ment figures.
There has been some change in the
character of construction in the last
year. The years 1928 and 1924 saw
a large amount of residential con.
Struction. In current figures reSiden.
ual construction, while general,
ahead Of last year, is a smaller per.
centage of the total volume. Busi.
ness buildings. schools, etc, occupy i
more prominent place.
As long as building continues at !
high rate many other lines will con.
tinue TO do we'll. for building calls
for purchases of many kinds and il
provides employment for both skillel
and unSkilled labor.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Gas Founders Home To
Be National Memorial

The home of William Murdoek
r.Irier nj the manufactured gas in
dugtry, in Birmingham, England, IN
1892. is to be purchased and MAIN
.ained as a national memorial, accord
ne % 10 a statement by the committee
,,55 ,re51resenting the British gas industry
sbicb has the project in charge, Ine
Srsf little gas holder built by him Is
also to be restored and preserved;
With the advent Of the electric lamp
o-as has ceased to be the chief form Of
i;cbting but the consumption ior
nooEing - and in industry have more
tSon made up the difference. At the
&c. nresant time more than billion cubic
fset Of gas are used daily in the
United States.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Lower Rent Possible
Under New State Law

New York. July 27.--Apartment'
Gan be built in this city to rent foI
50 a room and pay fair return of
the investment. This has been demon
strated by the Metropolitan life insur
ance company in its report on Il 81
100000 housing experiment.
The company operated under q
state law passed three years aRt
which permits life insurance eompan'
les to purchase land and build apart
ment houses to limited extent, pro
vided rents to be charged did not eA.
ceed 80 per month per room.
In its report on this venture the
company said il Is usual with real
estate men, builders and investors TO
allow something for vacancies anu
loss Of rent.
"rhe company made no such allow
ance. believing that the low rentals
and the desirability Of the housas
would practically eliminate this item,
the report said "The results have
proved that the company was right
in this assumption, for there has
been lost only $406.5i from this eanse.
The company intends at the end Of
each year to figure g per cent on the
then book values Of the properties,
this amount to be used for income.
ANY amount that is earned above .
ner cent Is 10 be credited to the cost
of the pfoperties, thereby making u
considerable reduction each year.
This will enable it to meet the full
taxes beginning In 1882 and still main
tain about the same ratio Of fedue-
ton of cost"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Big WOOIen Trust
Lowers Wages 10 PC.

Lawrence, Mass. July 27.-UnOr-
ganized employees of the American
WOODEN company have received an
other slice Of the prosperity promised
them In the form of a 10 per cent
wage reduction. About 10000 en-
ployes In this city are affected.
'"rhe reduction IL made necessary
by present business conditions" the
announcement said. II Is lntimated
that other mills will likewise "read-
Just" wages.
Until recently the WOODEN trust
maintained a paternal attitude toward
it. employees. On the occasion Of one
visit 10 this city President Wood Of
the trust was wildly acclaimed by the
inhabitants. His costly yentureK,
however, resulted In reorganization
Of the board of directors and his re-
tirement. The welfare plans were
abandoned, and now these workers
face a 10 per cent wage cut for de
pending upon others rather than upon
themselves.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Florida FlOgger
Held Not Guilt,

Cross City, Fla, July 27.-Thoma'
W. HigRinbotham4 whipping boss a
the Putnam lumber company camp a.
Dixie county, has been declared moi
guilty of second degree murder In con
neclion with the death of Martin Tai
bert, North Dakota farmer boy. Hlg-
ginbotham must face tiial for alleged
completely in the death Of Lewis
Barker, negro, last fall.
The whipping boss was indicted Tor
murder two years ago. lie was
charged with killing young TaibeI'
who had been arrested fof stealing q
ride on freight train and sentences
to the lumber camp. The trial re
vealed that the Judge and other OIL
cials were paid by the company for
sentencing prisoners To the camp
where Higginbotham was whipping
boss.
The trial resulted in such un-
favorable publicity that the state leg
islature passed a law that forblds the
leasing of convictS to private com
panies and abolished the lash in prison
camps.
The lumber company paid a large
sum Of money to the family Of young
Talbert.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
PLANS ARE BEING
COMPLETED FOR
STATE CONVENTION

Mere plans were completed iot the
State Convention Al the meeting held
By The Twin City Federation OF lS3oy
at Labor Hall. Sunday, July -, D1t-
ferent committees ale meeting very
nearly every night II complete their
plans for this convention. ana II is cN.
pested by the next SUNDAY NEE tn1
which win be held August ata. "a. > ESQ
y. NJ. that their plans will be pretty
well under way. aud they hope 20 have
them completed. Mayor Rabh attend
tended this meeting anu ASSURED u> Of
his hearty cooperation. lie 0lSo
stated. tina, with me nlans NE have
mapped out, There IS n question iu
ny mind but what you viii have ort
of the largest, II not the larees con
vention ever held IN CAmpalgn-Cr-
hana."
Officers of local Unions ate request.
ed to urge all their members to attend
this convention.
Announcement ct the complete pro
gram will. be made when it Is com.
pleted.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31

A 4oheur week was found in one
Of the branches of the women's r'.
ment industry. A ~ hour scale .N.
quite consistently show IN the EJt.
ment. hat and cap, leather and tur
textile, upholstery and job printing
industries. Newspaper printing showed
ls and aa-hour week 10 be IN totce.
An hour scale e. "a week appeared
in only one trade, hotel and restau-
rant work,
The report further shows that only
IL per cent of the women working
under union agreement In manufaetuf'
ing industries were employed In
piece rate basis, Organized women IN
time work trades, therefore. form
very large proportion of all the orgau-
iHed women for whom union scale Is
In effect The upstate cities inyesti'
gated show contrast 10 New York
City In the matter of time and piece
work, the upstate localities showing
Tar larger proportion Of piece rate
scales In effect than New York CITY.
The highest Sage atea reported
wero found IN the printing trades and
the clothing tradesSd Sdo per week
for women printers and proof readers
employed In newspaper offices In New
York City, and shh per week Tor
women Bonnas embruiaetprs, also ~
New York City. fhe range In the
printing trades was from si2 TO 500
| for printers, si6 10 $50 for press
feeder, aud $la To sl2 for bindery
workers Clothing trade rates ranged
| rom $40 10 sos on garments; SGT 10
| 30 for hat and cap makers; $l7.b0 10
| SD for fur and leather workers, and
81 TO sSi for poekeibook makers.
rextile wage rates ranged from
Sl6.hb on knit goods 10 $50 per week
ON sIik goods, Upholstery workers
s32 TO s367s, Mattresses $40 10 SIS
plus meals, and dfessers in the thea.
tire SIG TO s6i.b0.
| Calling attention 10 these figures,
| in news bulletin of the National
| Women's Tra.c Union League, Miss
| Elisabeth Chnstman, secretary treas
nrer of the League comments upon
the difference between the wagea Of
these orgnized women I'D previously
reported wage rates of women Ia In
duatrial occupations In general, where
| the median wage rate IL a. and less
pfl Httk w HlHHt VI fit #tHNiH W.
| which figures are available, In other
words, majority of the women,
where unorganized women are iDclud'
ed In the figures, receive sl2 week
or less.
The inquiry by the New York state
Labor Department was undertaken IN
answer TO general interest IN the
question Of wage and hour standards
achieved by women trade unionists in
that state. The report points out that
In spite Of well recognized difficulties
In It's path, trade unionism among
women has attained considerable pro
portions IN recent years. The scales
reported are not only evidence Of the
wage and hour conditions representa-
tive Of one important group of wome
workers but in addition constitute
basis Of comparison for rate setting
and adjusting In trades In which
women are unorganized
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Farm Press Supports
High Wage Theory

Washington, July 27.-The agfleuI- ,,
tural press is accepting the theory
that low wages of industrial WORKER worker
affect the farmer and commerce 's.
through a lessened consuming. power
saws Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner
of the United States bureau of iaoOi
statistics. ~
"The agricultural press" SAID nj MI
Stewart. is showing a greater apPie,
citation of the position always 'aket axe,
bv the bureau Of labor statistics ina ens'
the earnings of the workers, VINO con, ''o.l,,
stitute the larger numerical eiel'leo' ga'
of our population, can not oe ,oT- ov
pressed, nor the volume Of en- employ, ',t !,
ment in industry decreased, without u u
reaching upon the whole l9 range oooi "
business in the shape Of decreased con,
Sumption and hence a forced io%eL,ns 'ys., -,
of prices to a point where INDUSTRY ls T.,
and commerce are hit just as haio a
the workers themselves are ni''
Mr. Stewart illustrates tins poin,, Il,
nv showing that the consumption % %
cTaamery butter is related 10 lhe WI
ume of employment.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Blind Justice Opens
Attack ON Bad Checks

J. J. Gentille, in connection with his
office Us Justice Of the Peaf. has
started a war ON the passet> lt bad
chicks, an abuse that has gidWn 70
phenomenal proportions IN The Twin
Cities. due, he thinks, to the len.enc}
of merchants who take bad checks
without due examination TO see wheth-
er they are issued by responsible per-
suns or not.
Merchants wl1ese courtesy, OF
friendship for tgir patrons leads
them to calelessness in eashing checks
is largely responlible fof the bad
check evil" said the Justice. "A few
prosecutions would do much toward
stopping the abuse"
In connection With his 6ilice Cen
tile has opened j. collection agency
and is building up a patronage trom
merchants who are victims OF fraud
on neglect on the part OF their more
careless patrons. lie intends TO make
this a special depal tment OF hi office
durinp the first ye3 of his admlnlstra'
ton as justice of tie peace.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Slight Improvement
In Labor Conditions
In Indiana Reported

By international Labor News Service
Indianap polls, Ind, July IA
slight improvement in labor eondl-
tions is noted in Indiana according to
a report just issued by the labor
bureau. In the bituminous coal IN
dustry the improvement is marked IN
some parts of the State, especially as
compared with conditions a fe"
months ago.
In other lines the improvement Is
slight. There is still a surplus. oi
men in employment circles in all lines
save tool and die makers, solderefs
and finishers on auto bodies. Inc
auto trade is about the only one show
ing any real work. Not all these
plants are running anywhere near
full time but none is closed down
The building trade industry disnlays
some activity and promises to iaS'
throughout the season in the larger
cikies.
The furniture trade, foundry fab
rication and industry in general IN
other cities of the State are mlidiy
active with reduced forces.