Lassen Concern Grants Pay Rise
Workers in Mill, Factory in Susanville are Beneficiaries
January 12, 1941
The Fruit Growers Supply Company of this city, a subsidiary of the California Fruit Exchange of Sacramento, announced a wage increase of 21/2 cents an hour for four hundred employes of the mill and box factory.
C. H. Vincent, assistant general manager of the local mills, said the increase applies to all men paid on an hourly scale or a piece of work basis.
This pay boost is retroactive to January 1st, and has been accepted by the Pine Workers Alliance.
It places the present scale at 62 1/2 cents an hour for common labor in the box factory and planing mill and 65 cents an hour in all other departments.
Other companies in Superior California and Southern Oregon have announced similar pay increases in recent weeks.
