VOLUNTARY WAGE CUT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 8

VOLUNTARY WAGE CUT

REDUCED RENTS AND PRICES

Several hundred employees of.the' American Manganese Company o£ Dunbar, SS? Connellsville (U.S.A.), recently made a proposition to the company oflicers jvhereby they accepted a. wage reduction of 40 per cent, in order that they might continue working. , . , The officials ot the company previouslyhad ordered that the furnace and other plants operated by the 1 company, 1 '.which constitute the only, employment oftered to a population .of several thousand, be closed down oh Ist July. , . Employees not wishing to, be idle, and realisms it was better to work for less pay than not to receive any at all, made tho request to the company that they adopt the wage-cut during the period of business depression, providing the nlant be kept operating. Company official* agreed, nnd the men will continue to work while men employed in other.industries remain-idle. ■ Tho company not only agreed to kee[» the plant running, but met the men. hallway by deciding to cut rents of more than 150 houses occupied by employees 40 per cent. ' ' The stores of Dunbar entered into tho plan also by agreeing to give reductions on all necessities of life. This makes the move a community qffair. Under tho now wage scale common. labour will earn 22 cents an hour, for a day of ten or twelve hours on the shifts. The plan to reduce wages was not a 1 company plan, but came from the men. The men as #a unit, made the proposition, which did not moet with opposition from any quarlor. ■■'■■'.