Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-04-30

A Kansas law provides for the in
corporation of labor organizations.
From 30 to 40 per cent of the silk
workers in Paterson, n. j., are idle.
Cigar makers in New York have
started an extensive organization cam
paign.
At the beginning of the year there
were 6.15O locomotives owned by the
Italian State railways.
Hat and waist manufacturing is the
chief industry in most parts of Porto
Rico.
The cost of living in many coal min
ing centers is greater than the earn
ings of the miners.
Supply of farm labor in Pennsyl-
vania is 40 per cent Of last year and
1O7 per cent of normal.
Twenty-three thousand lives and
296.OOO.OOO work days were lost in
1919 as a result of Industrial accidents.
Permits for the erection of factory
buildings in New York state are about
double that of the same period of 1921.
Porto Rico has a law under which
homes for %wOrkingmen are to be built
and leased or sold under prescribed
conditions.
Motormen and conductors employed
on the street railways in Toronto have
renewed last years wag agreement.
Building, operations in Cleveland, o.,
this year give promise of eclipsing any
previous year in the history of the
city.
There are in the United States 49,
600 blind as a result of industrial acct
dents. This is 13 per cent of the total
blind population.
Wages due discharged employees in
Louisiana must be paid within "a hours.
and if not done in that time the wages
nontipuo until !, ont &c noda
According to the census of negro
population. the number of negro women
gainfully employed in 1910 as dress
makers. not in factories. was 3S.14S.
In Massachusetts children under Is
years of age are prohibited by law
from operating, cleaning or repairing
any freight elevator.
Bituminous coal production in the
United States dropped to a daily aver
age of about 100000 ton in the first
week of the suspension of work by the
miners.
Nearly all the railway ties used in
Great Britain are.exported from Amer
lea. and during the past two years i'm
portations amounted to nearly 9.OOO,-
600 railway ties.
The Chicago Federation of Labor has
again asked the American Federation
Of Labor to amalgamate all craft
unions into one, or to reorganize itself
industrially.
Mine mules. manv of which have not
seen daylight for many years. are en-
joying the suspension of work in the
anthracite fields with the idle mine
workers.
The number of men to be employed
on newspaper presses in Washington.
y. g.. is TO be decided by an agree
ment between the newspaper owners
and the pressmen's union.
In the state of New York the aver
age number Of men unemployed, due to
the lack of work during the 10 years
from 1904 to 1914, was is out of every
100 workers.
Many educators, ndustrialists chem
lists and eye experts met in New York
recently in an attempt to eliminate the
very considerable losses in industry due ,
TO defective vision. |
Approximately 5000 workers, includ-
ing 30 women, have been killed acct
d~entally during the last 10 years in
California.
Platinum has been discovered in the
state of Parahyba do Norte. Brazil.
and is on a mountain ridge three miles
from the main automobile road leading
from Campina Grande to Patos.
1t has been shown that improved
lighting systems in industrial plants
have increased output two per cent in
steel plants and as much as 10 per
cen in shoe factories, where work is
more exacting.
Switzerland has granted reciprocity,
in the matter of assistance to foreign
unemployed persons within her boun-
daries to subjects of Germany. Liech-
tenstein. Luxembourg, Czecho- Slovakia
and Italy. |
The Massachusetts state legislature |
want congress to propose an amend
ment to the federal constitution which
would empower congress to regulate
the hours of women inc minors and
to make the same uniform throughout
the entire United States.
The most marked decrease in any
important occupational class for
women workers in Philadelphia is
shown for dressmakers and seam
stresses. not including those employed
in factories. whose numbers decreased
from 12.SO6 in 1910, to 6,455 in 1920.
The Philadelphia chamber of COM
merce as a result of a careful investi- !