Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-30

Textile workers in Germany are de-
manding a So per cent wage increase.
Over 10000 clothing workers are
residents of Chicago.
Wages of flax workers in Belfast,
Ireland, have been reduced , per cent.
Women lawmakers in Spain receive
about IS cents a day.
Nearly a million and a half people
are idle in England.
More than 10000 employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad have agreed to
a reduction in pay.
The annual toll Of workers injured
in American industry approximates
600, 600.
Accidents in the coal mines in the
United States during the first four
months of 1922 took a toll of 64S lives.
OF 100000 children between the
! ages of ) and Is in America. child Ia
Dor laws affect less than 100000.
Norway has established an electro
lytic zinc smelter to increase the pro-
| duction from old mines and stimulate
the development of new ones.
The textile industry in Maine and
| Vermont is now operating IN full time.
Strenuous efforts are being made in
Boston to organize the clothing work
ers in all shops and it is the desire of
| the Boston joint board 10 have the in
dustry organized 100 per cent before
the end of the year.
All industries in the United States.
with the exception of stone. clay and
glass products, showed employment in
creases during the month of June.
Atlanta, Ga, will spend over $1,000
OO0 for street improvements this
summer and this is expected to furnish
work for all the unskilled labor which
cannot be lured into the cotton fields.
Sweden has launched a country
wide movement for the Standardization
of manufactured products. In build
ing machine and electrical industries
Standardization has existed for some
time.
The demand for hats has so i'm
proved that the largest factory in this
line in Philadelphia has increased its
working time from 43 to As hours a
week.
Available estimates indicate that the
total horsepower used in the United
States amounts to about 1856 900. 900.
Of this steam railroads contribute so
600. 600. manufactures $4,000. 900.
mines and quarries 100000 and cleo
trio railways 100000.
Prior to the outbreak of the war the
| production of petroleum in Russia
amounted to about 20 per cent of the
worlds production. and in spite of po-
litical and industrial upheaval the pro-
duction of soviet Russia still occupies
third rank in the oil producing countries
| of the world.
A decrease Of 1864 gross tons is
reported in the production of steel in
COTS in June as compared with May,
according to the American Iron n
Steel Institute in a report governing
the operations of 30 companies which
made $50 per cent Of all steel ingot
production in 1921.
American automobiles are called
"gas gobblers' in France. With gaso-
line at 10 cents a gallon. no machine
running less thar 80 miles on a gallon
has a chance of sale there. Average
10-horsepower four-passenger French
cars run from So to 40 miles on a gal
lon.
The Norwegian board of arbitration
has rendered recent decisions in the
building and furniture industries, fix
ing standard rates of wages and gem
eral working conditions of labor.
The formation of a $1,000 900 COM
pany for the erection of houses on a
nondividend basis is the latest develop
ment in the improvement OF mining viii
lagos in England.
Since the beginning of 1922 changes
in rates of wages reported to the
British department of labor have re-
suited in a net reduction Of more than