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Show DREY OF WAGE GUTTING rl!T3 MMITES Chicago Takes Lead in Cutting Scale Paid to Hotel Waiters TEXTILE ASSOCIATIONS ANNOUNCE BIG CUTS More Than 200 000 Affected by Action Taken m Pennsylvania i CHICAGO. Dec. 21. A wage re-j re-j duction amounting to 20 per cent In the pay of waiters In one of the largest larg-est downtown hotel w.i announced J today h Oeorge K--eel ! ul waiter.' The waiters have been receiving $!ia a month ard board. Their wage will be cut to $70 n mon'h. or half of thej $40 n month Increase given them last; May, he said. Ml n ct ; WAGES I NEW BERN X C., Dec. 21. Sa lanes la-nes of the office force at the New ! Bern Iron Works and Supply company com-pany w et.- immediately reduced to ! percent Monday when the plant was; turned over 10 the wage earning employes em-ployes Cor operation on ;i profit -shar-Ing basis. The plant is one of the: , largest of Its kind in this section of the state. Recently a 1" per cent wage re-! duction was followed by a walkout. J I The men returned, however, but when! I a second reduction of 10 per cent was announced they suggested th;:t they be permitted to opi rate the plant and ! receive all profits above actual oper-, ' atlng expenses. The plan was agreed to by the management. Under the ( I new system officials will continue In , charge of their respective depart- ; I menls. WORKERS ri PT CUT. TOLHWO; ' O:, Dec. 21. Employes mi the Tiiledo Uridge aad Iro'i oiu- pan-. 200 In number, decided Mon-, Mon-, day to accept a wage rjductlon of 10 ! per cent rather than le thrown out j of work. TAILC"S' W KGKS KEDVi ED I BOSTON Dec. 81. Announcement , J oi a wage reduction averaging about ! 2! 1-2 per cent In the tailor shops of the Clotlilng Manufacturers' nssocia- Hon of Boston and the placing of the shops on a piece work basis was made Monday. The changes will be ; effective when the shops reopen. Which probably Will not be until after January 1. . i n i ll l. Kl ll TIONS PHILADELPHIA, Dec 21 Reduc tion ii. wages in virtually i.u uie plants hi four great branches of the I textile manufacturing industry In this city were announced Monday and it was ?ald that slmllai reductions soon WOUld be made by five other brunches! Of the Industry. All the member- of Ihe Terry asso-j elation composed of manufacturers of Turkish toweling today posted notices, of a ten per cent but. I c" Stanley Hurlbut, secretary of the1 Philadelphia Eull-Fashloned Hosiery' Manufacturers' association, said that members had decided lo put a 1G per cent reduction In wages into effect onfj January I, and it a'so was learned I that the Philadelphia branch of the! National Association of Wilton andl Brussels Rug manufacturers would! inform union representatives tomor-rpW tomor-rpW that on January IT they would put Into effect a 2E per cent reduction reduc-tion in pay. in BOBIER1 PLANTS. Robert C. Blood, treasurer of the ' hosiery association, which Is distinct from the Eull Fashioned association skid the organisation would reduce a .rii-s about -'" vw cent when the plants of the members reopen. Off! of the Coarse Yarn Spin-. in rs' : ssoelallon the Seamless Hosieiyj Manufacturer association, the Sweater and Knitted Textile Manu- , facturers' association, the Enit Fabric Manufacturers' association, and thoj Matter Dyers' aaeociatlon, said they were contemplating wago reduetlona ranging from 10 to 30 p$y cent. Then are more than 200,000 work-1 era In the textile Industries here. |