Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

New York state mas i.Io0,3fS WON
en- workers.
Coal mines today are better venti-
lated than city office buildings.
Pennsylvania last year led all the
states in the use of explosives.
The minimum pay of women clothing
workers in Massachusetts has been set
at S14 a week.
Union busheling shop workers in
Chicago have accepted a 10 per cent
cut in wages.
Nearly $1,000 a day has been spent
on building construction in Newark.
\. J., since the opening of 1892.
More than twice as many women
were following transportation pursuits
in 1920 than in 1910 in New York.
Sixty-four percent of the men en-
ployed in central Pennsylvania coal
mines are contract miners.
There are 19.SS1. SOC. 900 tons of re-
coverable hituminous coal IN five west
ern Pennsylvania counties.
The total earnings of all soft coal
miners in Pennsylvania for the year
Of 1921 was more than S14,Oo0.000.
More than 80 per cent of the men
and IS per cent Of the clothing
workers in New York state work on
a 44-hour week schedule.
OF the total workers in New York
state. Greater New York claims 81 per
cent of the gainfully employed
and "A per cent of the men.
1t is estimated that between four
and five billion dollars will be spent
this year in new construction, a large
part of it residential.
Extension of the public school sys-
tenn 70 the industries of Baltimore for
the benefit of the working people has
been i%naugurated in Baltimore.
1t is estimated that there are in use
in this country at the present time
more than five billion feet of metal
leaders and cutters installed on pri-
vate homes.
The aggregate annual repair bill of
home owners in this country will this
year amount to S540,041, 100 for one
item alone-the replacement of sheet
metal work.
A Mexican silk mill. which has been
closed for a long time. due to labor
trouble. has been taken over by the
Mexican government and will be oper-
ated under government supervision.
of the Dresden, Germany. district court
and three workers were recently fined
1.5OO marks each for ~obstructing those
willing to work.
OF total sales of 3T2. 107. sO3 pounds
of explosives in the United States last
year, Pennsylvania used 21.45S. 135 of
permissible explosives. 31.SO9.Os5 of
high explosives other than those classed
as permissible. and 1904, $50 kegs of
black blasting powder.
An academy of labor. the first of its
kind in Germany. has been established
in Frankfort, where such members of
the working classes as have manifested
unusual ability and are thought worthy
OF a higher course of training than they
have received in public schools are
given gratis instruction..
OF every dollar spent in residence
construction. 36.1 cents is spent for
masonry, POI cents for carpentry, So
cents for heating. 6.S cents for paint
for plumbing. 80 cents for sheet metal
work. 30 cents for roofing, and IL
cents for hardware.
Loss from strikes in PHILADELPHIA
the last two years aggregated about
so. 900 900. according to a survey
made by the industrial relations com
mittee Of the chamber of commerce.
More than one-half this amount, the
survey showed, was in wages.
A survey Of conditions in 16 leading
industrial states showed 1900. 600 per-
sons idle on May 1; a similar survey
a year ago showed over $780, 900 idle.
Because of the expenses Of main
tanning the Crimean palaces Of the late
ear and the grand dukes last year
amounting to 14.O00.O0O,0 600 rcubles.
the soviet government Of Russia. has