Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24

Nearly 1000 shoe workers in Gin
~cinnati are now organized.
Every day 1.O00.O 900 gallons Of wa
fer are used in London for making
gas.
More than g. per cent of the needle
| workers in Troy, n. Y, are women
About 80 per cent of the freight
traffic of the United States is coal,
ore and stone.
Photographic plates of paper super
Tor in many respects to those of glass
| are now made in Germany.
In Germany ordinary laborers re-
! ceive an average of about 1U marks
an hour, equivalent IN American none
to 2 IA cents.
Forty per cent of the developed wa
| ter power of the world is in the Uni
| ted States. where waterwheels have a
capacity of 9,2423,000 horsepower.
The fight to set aside Milwaukee's
minimum wage ordinace will be car
| ried to the United States supreme
court.
Eight hundred Czecho- Slavakian
miners have been imported to work IN
a French colliery at Courier which has
been recently opened.
Workers in the silk failures OF
China receive an average of 3 cents q
| day for Is IL hours work.
A supreme council of labor and So
| eial welfare has been i~naugurated by
the Peruvian government for the pur-
pose of aiding in the settlement of dis
putes between capital and labor.
There are approximately 1000 WON
en- engaged as chauffeurs in the Uni
| ted States.
With but Z per cent of the worlds
population. the United States owns and
operate 265, 900 miles of railroad
lines. which is SO per cent OF the
worlds total railroad ~trackage.
Analysing reports of wage changes
made to the department OF labor, the
! Labor Bureau, Inc, notes that 81 con-
Germs reported increases and IL de-
| creases in October.
The total number of employees OF
| American railways in August, was
1.594.0T4. to whom was paid S2l4,'
| 976,644, or an average monthly wage
of S141.13.
Besides increasing the pension ben.
efits from So to 81 Il week to aged and
disabled members the Internationa.
Association of Bricklayers and stone
masons has voted to erect q headquar-
Z ) Di1liGluS III Si1Af 80 ~"
Forty-seven manufacturing concerns
in aud around Birmingham, Ala. have
formed an insurance company to han
die workmen's compensation insurance
for employers.
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay are
= planning to cooperate in harnesslns
the Uruguay river to get power equiv
alent to 5000. 600 tons of coal a year
A successful demonstration has beer
given in England of an automatic
alarm for use in coal mines. Iht
alarm indicates the amount of Goa
gas, fire damp, Or any dangerous va
por. and continues to sound untl The
atmosphere is safe.
The committee of banking Of thu
New York Central Trades and Labe,
council ~annunces hat it has decided
to recommend establishment by tn,
council of Il. bank similar to the Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Engineers Co
operative bank of Cleveland.
The iron ore mined in the United
States in 1921. exclusive of that whicl
contained more than SO per cent o
manganese, is estimated at 29.54T, 00
gross tons, a decrease of SO per cent
as compared with the output in 1920
The value Of Alaska's mineral outpu
IN l921 was ABOUT BIO, IUJ,G uu, as eom
pared with $23,303, 757 in 1920. Thi,
was the lowest annual value since 1904
During IL years of mining the terri
tory has produced minerals to TIL
value of S47S.0oO.0 600.
In accordance with arrangement!
made by the school committee and tn,
Americanization committee of the Bos
ton Chamber of Commerce classes il
English and American citizenship ar,
to be organized in Boston factorie:
and other establishments where for
l eign-born workers are employed.