Great Falls tribune., 1921-03-13

by the Chicago Collegiate Bureau Of
/ Occupations, to determine opportuni-
ties for trained women as employ
ment, labor and industrial relations
managers, revealed only three where
women do all the employing, but many
have women assistants, with salts
factory results.
| The most recent comprehensive
study of women's earnings by the
United States Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics shows. that for nearly $4,000
workers, for. whom payroll records
were available, the average weekly
earnings in 1910, high wage year,
were 1884. This average OF earn
ings was lower. than any minimum
W4Se set during the last year by any
minimum wage commission in the
United States.
The latest compilation indicates that
there are now in Switzerland 10000
unemployed persons. Many of these
are workers in the watch and textile
industries. Unemployment is increas-
ing daily throughout the country.
Within the last two months 35 in-
dustrial plants in Pennsylvania have
adopted for their employees the home
study plan offered by the engineering
extension department of the Pennsyl-
vania State College.
In 1919 the average Philadelphia
textile worker received yearly wage
Of 1894. In 1915 the average was
only SAIL. Indications are that the
1920 average will fall to 5000, due to
the four month shutdown of mills.
. The Cxecho- -Slovak territory COM
prises 30 per cent. of the whole of
the shoe industry belonging to former
Austria Hungary and contains 250
shoe factories, employing from $4,000
to 10000 workmen, with an annual
output Of II, ,O00,O pairs of shoes.
Exceeding by q million and half
previous estimates of the number of
unemployed by industrial and other
leaders, figures based on first ma
tionwide survey have been completed
by the Department of Labor's employ
ment service. They show at the be-
ginning of the year the number of
persons employed in industry in this
country was 3,473, ,466 less than a year
ago.
In 1917. before Government opera
ton was adopted, the railways en-
ployed 3O2 ,S2S machinists, boilermak-
ers, blacksmiths, electricians, air
brakemen, car inspectors, car repair
ers, other skilled shop employees and
machinists' helpers and apprentices.
In 1920. when the number of locomo-
tives and cars to be maintained was
only slightly larger than in 1917, they
had 443,774 employees of the above
classifications. an increase of 1409iG.
or AZ per cent. The total wages paid
to these employees in 1917 was $317.-
S79,549, while in 1920, after the ad-
vance in wages granted by the Railroad
Labor Board last July, their wages
were running at the rate of approxi-
mately $3.50. 100000 year. an in
crease oyer 1917 of $50 per cent.
The one big union that was launched
amid q blare of trumpets nearly two
years ago at Calgary, British Colum-
bia, has been dealt another smashing
blow by the withdrawal Of the British
Columbia loggers. who announce they
will be independent. The one big
union has now less than 5000 mem
bers, mostly in Winnipeg. with small
groups scattered throughout several
cities in the Northwest. When the
0. 3. us organized their wild claims
alarmed some trade unionists, who
overlooked former overnight attempts
to uproot the trade union movement