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Show Raise Wages and Cut Down Hours Automobile Companies Grant Employees Employ-ees Benefits Which Were Not Solicited Toledo, Ohio, Aug C Eleven thousand thou-sand employees of tho Willys-Over-land company reco ved notice today that forty-eight hours will cnnstltuto a work weok at tho plant after No- ember 1. This news enmo as n surprise sur-prise to tho employees nnd was mado voluntarily by tho company. Tho inovo follows nn Incrcaso ot 5 per cent In wages about six weeks ago. Offers Eight Hour Day Bridgeport, Conn,, Aug. C Tho Locomobile Lo-comobile company of American announced an-nounced today that It would tnstltuto nn eight hour day In Its plant should tho employees dcslro that Instead ot tho profit sharing plan recently proposed. pro-posed. In labor union circles this week ns sortlons wero mado that efforts woro being directed towards a general strlko in tho Locomobllo company's plant to obtain the eight hour dny and that national labor organization officers wcro coming hero to direct tho movement. Local union officers havo claimed that tho concessions most desired wero not embraced In tho bonus plnn of tho company. |