Winston-Salem, June 4—The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco company announced today a reduction of approximately 20 per cent in the wages of operatives in the various plants here. Action does not affect office employees. The company states that plants will be operated five days a week instead of four, and that many employes will have the privilege of working 5 ½ days if they wish. This is the first reduction in wages the company has made since the beginning of the European war, during which several advances were allowed.
From the front page of The Mount Airy News, June 9, 1921
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