Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-10

lule IN Alabama.
Drug clerks in New Orleans now work
TO hours day and six days a week.
Less than 5000 people are employed
in the factories Of Petrograd. Russia.
During the present year the automo-
bile indusry will use 100000 bales Of
cotton.
from saWdust
Typewriter mechanics in Newark, N.
o., are organizing with view of better
ing their working conditions and wages.
There are between 24,O0O,000 and 49,
5000 barrels of oil consumed annually
in the United States in the making of
gas.
London transfers are now being paid
at the rate Of $3.50 per week, time and
half time for overtime and double pay
for Sundays and holidays.
Albert Rose, who has just retired
after So years Of service in the Chatham,
England, dockyard, was never late and
never lost an hour.
The first locomotive with steel springs
was built in England just 100 years ago,
and is still to be seen in the South Ken
sington museum.
BY putting their workers on a piece
work basis, New Bedford Mass, tex
tile mill has been able to increase pro-
duction nearly 40 per cent
A committee of Is will revise the in
dustrial accident code in the state of
Washington and submit the same to the
next legislature for action.
The minimum wage of 10000 women
employed in the fruit and vegetable
packing industries in and around Sac
ramento, Cal, have been increased from
$3.50 to SIG per week.
English-speaking stenographers are IN
great demand and are making big salar-
les In Cuba. Their pay ranges from
5000 month up, with $500 about the
average.
Since 1916 no less than 1900 new fac
tories have been established in South
Africa. In the same period of time the
industrial production increased 90 per
cent.
It has been estimated that between
10000 and 100000 workers are injured
each year and that approximately 20o,-
600 of this number need training for new
occupations.
Swedish labor for candy manufacture
is relatively cheap The majority OF
workers are women, who receive lower
wages than do the women workers in
the textile industries.
In December, 1919, the production Of
the coal mines in Belgium was W per
cent of what 1t was in 1913, although
labor employed amounted to 1O4 per
cent of the pre-war figure
There are now II railroad organlza-
tions, representing various crafts. af-
fiIiated with the American Federation of
Labor, claiming to represent 80 per cent
of the organized employees and to have
membership of nearly 100000.
A new industry has been introduced
in Milan, Italy. 1t consists in the manu-
facture of collar, cuff, cigarette and 9TH
er boxes, carpets, purses, furniture Gov
erings and variety of other things
from waste leather cuttings, which have
heretofore been useless.
The report Of the Danish employment
exchanges for the fiscal year l918-19
shows the existence Of 81 labor e1-
changes. These exchanges received 3d.,
$50 applications for positions, and placed
1856 persons. The cost Of the system
was $76.152, or 1926 per person placed.
The Bradford (England) wool-comb
ing employees and their operatives have
agreed on a bonus on production scheme
By which each four weeks production is
creased production in the proportion of
compared and BOGUS paid on any in
1 per cent on wages earned for each
per cent increase on the standard.
The difficulties that are now being
faced by many Canadian manufacturers
are perhaps the most trying they have
ever been confronted with. One manu-
facturer. employing moulders, whose rare
Of pay is exceedingly high, employs his
molders at present simply to break up
scrap, in order to hold them from going
elsewhere.
The town Of Marinette, Ariz., and
1900 acres Of land adjacent has been
purchased by the Goodyear. Tire and
Rubber company so as to enlarge its
southwestern cotton fields. 1t now owns
$4,000 acres of land in Arizona, and
leases 10000 in order to increase its
available supply of long staple cotton.
The average yearly output of coal in
Australia is about 100000 tons, of
which quantity over 100000 tons are
raised in New South Wales, the only
Australian state producing any large
quantity of coal. Of this New South |
are used locally, about 100000 tons
shipped to other Australian states and |
the balance shipped to New Zealand and |
overseas ports.
Reports from 35 trade unions in Ger |
many show that 153, $3.50 members out of |
4.719,225. or 3.3 per cent, were out of |
work in January. On Dec. 30, 1919, the
4. 495, 743 members, or per cent, out of
work In January, 1910, 165,17S out of
a total of 2,520,5S5 trade-union mem
hers, or SO per cent, were unemployed. |
The number Of persons receiving unem-
ployment allowances on Feb. l, 1920,
was 81 $40. according to the report of
the rehabilitation commissioners ION
Jan. /. 1920, their number was 3S6,818).
A company has been formed in Aus
tralia to manufacture the motor fuel
known as natalie in Papua where plants
and trees have been found that yield 73
gallons Of alcohol per ton.
So that athletes spiked shoes can be
worn indoors without injury to carpets
or floors an inventor has patented a
heavy sole and heel, held in place over
the spikes by toe strap.
Eight separate desks. mounted on a
single pedestal, have been designed by
IN astronomer in an observatory in the
West Indies so he can work at any of
them without leaving his chair.
A Missourian has patented an enve-
ope having a flap to be pasted over the
return card but supplied with perfor-
ated section that can be torn out to dis
lose the name Of the sender Of a let
.er.
A novel French motor boat that is
1riven by an airplane propeller has a
,oupe body supported on parallel cyiin-
lrical floats that rise as speed is at
aimed until they barely skim the sur
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