Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

Philadelphia is the home Of the larg-
est hat factory, rug factory and carpet
factory.
The Belgian cotton-bIsnket industry
employs more than 5000 workers.
More than $4,000, 900 worth of but
tons are manufactured in the United
States each year.
Average earnings of factory workers
in New York in October were S1.OS
higher than a year ago.
One-fourth of all the timber in the
United States comes from the state OF
Washington.
Many industrial accidents are caused
through defective or bad eyesight.
About 5000, exclusive of members
of unions, are unemployed in Dublin;
It is estimated that there are 800
boot and shoe factories in the Neither
lands. of which about go are OF large or
medium size, equipped with modern
machinery.
Since the beginning of 1922 labor
disputes in Great Britain involved ooU,--
900 workers and resulted IN the loss OF
. 0 1000, 600 working days.
The total number of workers regis
tered at the employment exchanges as
unemployed on October 30 IN Great
Britain and northern Ireland was
.3S5, 900. of whom 100000 were men
and 10000 were women.
The automobile industry has grown
to such magnitude that today the CAPT
tai invested in it is twice the capital or
iii the national banks in the country.
Wages of male farm labor on the
first of October for the entire country
averaged s41.5S per month, without
board compared with 1882 a year ago:
The United States department OF
labor reports that 1853 representative
establishments in A. different manu-
featuring lines paid 1,3o4,162 employees
$40, 1914. $40 as wages for the month OF
September. =.
OF the 31.15o wonen employed IN
2.5.4o establishments IN Cailforn1a, 10
9S3, or 81 per cent. receive 80 u "eeA
and over.
An agreement has just been signed
hetween the Philadelphia Mason Build
ers, company and the Stone Masons
union whereby the stone cutters are as
s,ired of u wage of S1225 an hour untll
1923.
Owing to a reduction in the wage
awards serious strikes exist IN the
shipping industry of New Zealand, at
~fecfing coastwise and foreign COM
merce.
Railroads of the United States from
January | to November i, this year,
had Al 500 more new cars either or
dered and under construction or In
stalled IN service.
Power belts, such as are used IN
workshops for transmitting power have
been run at the rate of nearly 5.SoU
feet a minute.
Last year 10000, 900 tons of raw ma
~terials were fed into Portland cement
| mills Of this country. and the finished
| product came out in approximately
400, 900. 900 sacks.
The output OF motor vehicles thus
| far produced this year in the United
States totals more than 100000.
/, Highest payrolls since February.
1921, when war wages were still eff
| fectiye, were paid BY Youngstown in
dustrial concerns during October
Wisconsin is said to rank higher
| than other states in the promptness OF
pawn MT and compensation claims. In
, Greg n and California, two states with
good records. only II per cent of the
case, brought payment within two
weei "a
III s. McCiuskey. president of the
Arix ma State Federation of Labor,
has been appointed private secretary
to Governor Hunt.
Several thousand cotton pickers are
being dispatched by motortruek from
Nogales to Phoenix and other Salt
River valley cities in Arizona, Food