Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-05

Inc average wages OF a Iaborer IN
Germany are now between $4,000 and
10000 marks a month, while the wages
Of bank clerks are from 10000 to
10000 marks a month.
Employees Of the Ford Motor com
pany in Detroit are supplied by the
firm with coke at "a cost to them of
SIS a ton.
Lac, better known in the form of
British India.
There are nearly 100000 mattresses
and servants in New York City.
Every ton of cement manufactured
takes the equivalent Of more than half
a ton of coal in heat.
A medium sized cement kiln weighs
275. 600 pounds, empty, and has foun-
dations as heavy as for a 10-story
building.
Statistics show that Il per cent of
the working population of the United
States are employed in the distributing
and converting end of tie industry, and
only % per cent in the producing end.
The automobile industry of the
United States turned out more cars
during the first eight months Of 1922
than in the full year Of 1921.
The General Electric company has
announced that a bonus of 5 per cent
in cash or in securities r~edeemable in
cash will be paid each employee receiv-
ing compensation of $4,000 or less an
nually who has completed five years
or more of continuous service at Janu-
airy | or July l of each year.
Work has started in Sacramento.
Cal, on the first of n chain of 20
hotels for motorists, extending from
Vancouver. 3. c., on the north.
through Washington. Oregon. Cali
fornia and parts Of Nevada and termi-
mating at San Diego, Cal, on the
south.
Canadian lumbermen are offering
$50 to $40 a month for men for their
camp this winter, against $3.50 to $50
last winter.
Representatives Of flour transporta-
ton brotherhoods in Minneapolis.
MINI, have launched a campaign for
The organization, of a million-dollar
labor cooperative bank in the Twin
Cities.
More than $4,000 persons are now
employed in the textile industry in
Great Britain.
In Wisconsin the worker got only
about % Der cent as much actual
wages in 1921 as in 1920.
In Berlin, Of all the workers EN-
ployed in the metal industry, only 60
per cent are members Of trade unions.
Members of the Printers union in
Topeka, Kan. are forming a woman's
auxiliary.
Increased activity in the cotton
goods industry during August caused
the operation of 800, 900 more spindles.
The New York joint board Of the
.Amalgamated Clothing Workers has
appropriated $685. 900 for the purchase
Of stock of the RussMn-American In
d~ustrial corporation. the company or
ganized by the union to operate cloth
ing and textile plants in Russia under
a Soviet concession.
The 500 establishments in Califor-
MIA reported 1O3,076 employees Mt work
The month ended August, 1922. and
94.:361 for August. 1921. showing for
August. this year. an increase of II, 754
over June of this year and an increase
Of 1855 over August a year ago. The
net gain amounts to 1915 per cent more
than June of this year and 12.3 per
cent more than August a year ago.
Between July - and Fl the supple
mentary wage received by male work
ers in the German glove industry was
advanced from 40 per cent to 215
per cent and hat Of the women from
100 per cent 10 235 per cent. Dating
from August l the male workers re-
ceive an additional increase of 10 per
cent and the female workers 60 per
cent.
far as it relates 10 railroads, has been