The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-08-25
OTHER LABOR NOTES


Tobacco growing is one Of Para.
guay's most important industries.
An average of nine days is lost in
Illness for each worker in the United
States.
Enough sheets are manufactured in
Philadelphia each year to provide a
pair for every home in the United
States.
Kansas has -four mills with a ca
pacity Of turning out sufficient -four to
meet the needs Of about 30,00O.OO0'
consumers annually.
Several of the numerous industrial
plants located in Wilmington, Del,
have begun to cut down their working
forces, due to unstable conditions.
Several Paterson IN. J.) silk manu-
facturers have decided to sell their
goods direct to the public and many
have already opened up stores for that
purpose.
A new electric ~cloth-cutting device
has a thin circular knife which re-
wolves at a rate of 5000 revolutions
per minute and cuts through many
thicknesses Of cloth.
Experiments are being conducted at
the Textile institute at Leeds Eng, in
manufacturing by a chemical process
artificial wool from cellulose derived
from cotton waste.
Besides employing more than $4,000
men in the shipbailding industry, Can
ada gives employment to approximate
ly $4,000 more in the manufacture Of
marine equipment and supplies.
Eighty-nine per cent of all the cleo
trochemical products made in the
United States are manufactured along
the Niagara river, where power from
Niagara Falls is available.
The average yearly output of coal
In Australia Is about 100000 tons,
of which quantity yer 100000 tons
are raisel in New South Wales, the
only Australian state producing any
large quantity Of coal.
In 1915, when there were 1O3,976
people employed in the textile indus
try in Pennsylvania, the wages paid
them totaled 81 ,971 800, and in 1919,
when there were 1854 employed, the
wages amounted to $79,863,100
Pennsylvania employers who take
disabled soldiers or sailors under the
rehabilitation act f9s vocational edu:
cation are liable for c1ml1lpensation If
the men are injured while working
either for training or for small pay.
Fifty thousand men are out in a
strike that has spread 1ron the
Reiachenberg district throughout Ga.
blonz, Friedland and Boehmisch-Leipa,
tying up various businesses. One re-
suit has been the granting Of the de-
mand that the food allowance be re-
stored to its former level.
A unique plan Of proft-sharing
whereby employees are to receive $25
after having served the company for
six months has been adopted by the
Livingstone Mercantile company of
Merrill, Wis. Tie plan does not obli-
gate the employee, as each will re-
ceive the SUM for six months Of con-
tinuous service.
The six section hands employed by
the Leavenworth & Topeka railway,
sometimes known as the "Orphan,"
threw down their picks and shovels
and declared a strike upon their de-
mand for Increased pay being denied.
The men have been drawing 80 cents
an hour and struck for 40. Ne effort
is being made to fill their places.
The pay rolls Of the Maine Central
Railroad company, including its. pro-
portion Of the Portland Terminal com
pany's operation, will be increased ap-
proximately s2,30O,0O0 a year by the
wage award Of $6OO,0O0 700 recently
made by the labor board, it was
learned upon inquiry from the man.
agement Of that company. In addi-
ton the award, being retroactive to
May /, will mean the payment in
back pay Of approximately $5O0,O00.
One thousand machinists walked out
ut Norfolk, Va, after notice by the
.IEonmasters' Association, a union Of
employers, that the ~"open-shop" policy
would be ipaugurated. This decree
followed a demand by machinssts,
boilermakers and allied ironworkers
for increases approximating Is PEI
cent with ae44-hour week. No discrim'
nation against union mel will be at
tempted, association officials state. Re
pair work on vessels In pert Is serious
" affected by the strike.
Workers in the Cleveland CO., WON
ems garment industry, numbering
about 1000. are to receive q guaran'
teed wage for the annual period Of
employment. They viii also receive
q weeks vacation each year with
pay.
The National Brotherhood Of Opera
tive. Peters. with Z membership d
S,AOo. anbnitted . request - the Vni
ted etates Potters' association fol- !,
q per cent wage nereass for genera
.pettefy wOrkerA The present wAgs
Asreenent 0ees Dot expire unti1 %
!41ober !. MA 81 sts
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