Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, Vol. 24: July 7th, 1921
Striking employees of paper mills in the United States and Canada have voted to accept the proposal made by manufacturers to submit to arbitration the wage dispute that caused some mills to shut down May 1 and others May 11. The arbitration plan calls for the selection of a board of seven, three to represent employees, three employers and a seventh, chosen as umpire by both sides. The board s finding will be retroactive. The ballot of the unions showed the men to be almost unanimous in favoring arbitration as a means of settling the strike. The International Paper Company is not a party to the arbitration agreement. Eleven other concerns are. The manufacturers selected C. H. L, Jones, of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario; E. B. Murray, vice-president of the Union Bag and Paper Company, New York, and Floyd S. Carlisle, president of the St. Regis Paper Company, to represent them. The employees selected as their representatives, John P. Burke, president of the International Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, Jeremiah T. Carey, president of the International Brotherhood of Papermakers, and J. T. Foster, of the Dominion Trades and Labor Con ference. Frank Irvine, of Ithaca, a former member of the Public Service Commission, New York State, and at one time dean of the Law School of Columbia Univ ersity, was named as impartial chairman of the arbitra tion board. The arbitration committee this week begins a tour of the paper mill centers of Canada and the United States. First hand data concerning the working and living conditions of the workers will be obtained. This data, together with the demands made by the' men in various localities, will form a basis upon which arbitration will be begun. In an effort to protect the cyclone swept area of the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington from fire, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has issued an order, effective July 1, prohibiting smoking within the area during the fire danger season. Aerial air patrols also Will he maintained. Nearly seven billion feet. Of timber blown down by the terrific storm last January 29 is contained in the half million acre area swept by the storm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
