Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1920 — THE WAY BACK TO NORMALCY [ARTICLE]

THE WAY BACK TO NORMALCY

The Willys-Overland automobile plant, employing 15,000 per Sons, closes down today for an indefinite period. Three-quarters of the garment workers In the New York district have been laid off, mostly on the day after election, to “readjust wages.” The Lawrence mills of the woolen trust go on a four-day-a-week basis next week. They have been running short-handed ever since they reopened after the two months’ "vacation” which the trust gave its workers to punish the United States government for prosecuting the aforesaid trust as a profiteer. Lumber manufacturers In Florida have decided that, beginning Nov. 8, they will cut the wages of all their employes about *25 per cent. Coupling these matters with the election returns, one pan begin to understand that cryptic phrase, "back to normalcy.” Journal.