Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-18

Missouri will spend $50 OO0, 900 70
ttate.
Building trades workmen are EN-
ployed but 100 days year.
Steel plants in Ohio have increases
their operations about Is per cent.
The eight hour day is now the chic
issue before the United States Railroa,
Labor Board.
railroad shops in Middletown, N. Y.
contemplate a reduction in number O
work days week.
| Iron mines in Minnesota have GU
| wages for second time. Last May tn,
REDUCTION was 20 per cent. now it is 10
voted 100000 lire for public work.
to relieve unemployment.
There are now II cotton mills il
emma established, by Japanese capital
lists.
Papermakers in Salem, Ore, have or
ganlzed and affiliated with the inter.
| national of that craft.
Railroad shops in Milwaukee, La
Crosse ond GAINESVILLE, Wis, are in.
creasing working hours per capita. .
The reopening of silk mills in Pater.
son, N: j.. has increased new Jobs OF
more than per cent.
The United Handkerchief Workers
UNION OF Passaic, N, j., has decided to
Longshoremen in France have &C.
cepted the employers terms of q
francs for eight hours work.
wv MUNICIPAL Improvements started in
Worcester, Mass, provided work for
more than 1000 men.
British cotton unions are considering
a federation.
Cotton-spinning mills in Manchester
(Eng.), which have for some time
been working Oh half time, are now op-
Grating on six-day- basis.
The membership Of the United Cloth
Hat and Cap. Makers union in New
York has decreased more than 1000
during the last year.
With opening Of clinic in Trenton,
n. j., that state now has six rehabilita-
ton clinics for those physically handi-
capped in industry.
Industrial strikes that have been
going On for two, four and eight months
are one after another falling of their
own weight. with wage reduction accept
ances the rule.
The latest official figures Of unem-
ployment in France shows total of
only 81. 226. indicating a steady de-
able to obtain work.
Louisiana manufacturers in every
branch of industry propose forming an
association, the object of which is to
promote state welfare.
With sreel and rolling mills closed
down because of the lack of orders, the
total number Of unemployed in Cincin-
natl is now estimated at $4,000 Several
building projects will help
to solve the unemployment
situation
Representatives of certain British
printing trades unions have recon-
mended that their members accept n
cut in wages of five shillings a week.
to be followed next month with a sim
liar cut.
Since 1880 there have been 10000
miles OF surfaced thoroughfares con-
Canada, and $4,000, 900 900 Has been
spent on highway improvements.
The Shoe Workers Protective union
has a total membership of $4,000 and
Of that number about 1900 are en-
ployed in the allied shoe trades.
The United Mine Workers of the
central Pennsylvania bituminous fields
have refused to discuss a wage cut. the
present agreement not expiring until
next March.
The British Agricultural Wages
Board has by majority decided to re-
luce wages of adults 6 shillings a week.
With a new minimum of AZ shillings.
A month must elapse before an order
an be issued to this effect. during which
ime objections may be lodged The Ag-
'icultural Ministry is now endeavoring
o work out system of district
cards to function when the present ag-
'icultural act is repealed