The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

for general workers and So to 81
for salaried employees in new 18
month contract with the Westen
Electric Co.
In the chemical industry, the
United Chemical Workers woi
\ from Parke Davis & Co. at the enc
t of July a three-year pact grant
: ing 21 cents an hour the first year
25 cents the second, and 90 cents
t the third. The union had struck the
4 company's plants in Detroit anC
e Rochester for a month. At Fern
t dale, Mich. the same union gained
a minimum hourly total of 81 cents
in wage boosts from the Reichhold
. Chemicals, Inc. An immediate in
: crease of Is cents was provided
: with four cents more each year
for four years. And at Pontiac,
Mich, it won a four-cent boost re-
troactive to May / from the Pontiac
i Varnish Co. On July "a, after s.
day strike, the Chemical Workers
won a one-year contract with JAM
ieson Pharmacal Co. of Detroit, for
100 workers, with ~ cents in
hourly pay raises retroactive to
June 2 and 5 cents next January.
A month later, the UCW got a
scent general wage boost and d
cents more in 1851 and 1852 in a
three-year pact with the Monsanto
Chemical Co. of Trenton, NJ. Three
weeks later the Carborundum Co.
of Niagara Falls, NY, granted
3400 members of the UCW scent
pay boost, and guaranteed annual
3-cent raises throughout the life
of the five-year pact. At the end of
September in Detroit, the Gelatin
Products division of R. P. Scherer
Corp. tossed out it's contract 6to
sign better one, granting Is cents
more hourly and a 1-cent boost in
shift differentials. 81
In the textile industry, a month
after the start of the Korean war,
the Textile Workers won a general
seven percent wage boost retroac-
tive to July l, covering 10000
workers in seven plants of the AM
erican Viscose Corp. The gain aver
aged about IL cents an hour. A
week later, about 1000 members ofl
the same union gained from II tol
II cents in new contracts with 12I
firms in New York and Philadel- |
phia. The gain put the minimum
wage at SLAP an hour. A few days
later, the union won 10-cent hour
ly increase, covering 1000 produc-
tion workers at the Celanese plant
in Cumberland, Nd. In late August,
after weeklong strike, the union
won 10 cents for 500 workers at
the Bemis Bag Co. in st. Louis.
The raise put the wage at $1.15 an
hour. 1t gained the same increase
a week later for 1850 workers at
Courtaulds, Ltd, in Cornwall, Ont.
In mid-September in Whitehall,
NY, AFL Textile Workers at the
Champlain Spinners mill won a
new contract granting them third
of the firms profits for 1850,
minus an immediate scent hourly
boost, retroactive to- Aug. 7. The
profit-sharing is estimated to bring
a 10-cent hourly raise.
At September's end, $4,000 CIOl
Textile Workers received a 10-l
cent hourly pay bost from threel
eastern rug manufacturing COM
panies. Around the same time, a
voluntary 12-cent pay raise wasl
granted to $4,000 Textile Workers.
by the American Woolen Co. inl
Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, New York, and Kentucky.
The action was expected to set
pattern for 10000 other woolen
and worsted workers. In Taftville,
Conn.,, the union won a 10 percent
wage boost for 500 workers, plus
an additional 5 percent in 1851 and
1862. In early October the union ;
signed a contract covering $4,000
workers in silk and rayon dyeingI ,
plants with a 12-cent hourly payl {
boost. In the same week, the Lowell !
Inc. of st. Louis signed
with the union, providing IL cents !
more in hourly pay for its 12O !
workers. The new wage scale, re- :
to Sept. 8, ranges from ,
80 cents to $1.35 for women and {
S1.04 to $3.50 for men. If
In the building field, 5000 AFL :
Building Trades workers in Utica, :
NY won a 221a cent wage raise in 5
ate June after a two-week strike.
They also obtained 25-cent hour
y bonus for heavy construction
work and 5 cents a mile for trans
oortation beyond a ten-mile limit. l
N San Francisco, AFL carpenters v
Won Is cents an hour more after a S
strike. The new scale, af- t
'ecting $4,000 journeymen, is il
S2.37R cents an hour. Also in San T
a few days later, 1900 {
AFL building service employees won
to Accent hourly pay boosts. In