Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27

There are two employers ofganlZa-
tons in the cotton industry in Italy.
More than 100000 are employed in
American coal mines.
A working force equivalent to 1900
900 laborers is being applied to farm
ing. due to the effectiveness OF auto
mobiles.
There are more than zoe, ,0OO
square yards of concreted pavements
in the United States and Canada.
More than 100000 envelopes are
produced annually in the United
States.
Ninety-five per cent OF the employ
ers in Ohio support the Ohio state In
surance department.
Statistics of the unemployed in Paris
show that between June 10 and July j
the number was 764 as contrasted with
g5S for the period from June 3 to
June 10.
Water is piped a distance OF eight
miles through the Arizona desert to
make an oasis where some mining OPP
erations are being conducted.
George Trimbur, SO years old, a re
tired farmer of Butler, Pa. is the only
man living who helped to roll the first
piece Of rolled iron.
The Syracuse labor school already
has been so successful that the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is planning to
expand it on a national scale.
II is said that the wages of the ex
pert slate ouarrymen, who work in
omen pits often 400 feet deep, are
among the highest paid in the world.
The reduction of industrial accidents
10 an absolute minimum is the goal of
the $500 safety engineers and business
executives, representing 100000 and
more American workmen, who will at
tend the annual national safety con-
gress to be held in New York city.
According to the National Industrial
| Conference Board. the railway shop
men enjoy weekly earnings 80 per cent
higher than workers performing sim
liar tasks in outside shops.
The demand of the Boston Cap
Manufacturers association for a Is per
cent reduction in wages and abolition
of pay for legal holidays has been de-
MED by Judge Connolly, arbitrator.
Wages paid anthracite coal miners
in 1921, totalled S2S3,98l 800, as com
pared with S237, 302,900 in 1920.
Anthracite coal production in Penn.
s~ylvania last year reached 4 Total OF
90. 50q,O75 tons, valued at S4Si, 2o0, 100
as compared with 79,36i.000 tons
valued at S436, $4,000 in 1920.
PEOPLE in this country spend a.
least S~1o0.OO0.0O0 q year for buttons
The capital invested in the button man
ufacturing industry of the United
States is approximately S3O,OOO,o0(
and the sums paid in wages in the las
census year amounted to more thar
$4,000, 0Oo.
Ninety-nine per cent of the claims
for compensation under the Ohio stat
insurance plan are settled by the fill
ing of the application made out by tn
injured worker and signed by the EN-
ployer.
The worlds visible supply of til
showed a decrease of 2.064 tons !
Julv. as against a gain of 658 tons il
June and Se3 tons in May and a de
crease of 1886 tons in April. The vlsi
Bile supply at the end of July amounte'
to 81, 500 tons.
A petition favoring the c~ontinuanc
of the eight-hour day bearing the sig
natures of more than 1.000,0 900 person
will be presented by the executives o
the French General Confederation o
Labor to the appropriate parliamentar
committee. The confederation ais
plans to continue a propaganda cam
paisn for the eight-hour day.
An increase of 23.2 per cent in EN-