Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

All persons gainfully employed lose
about 100000 600 days annually.
Hat making is one of the chief in
dustries in Porto Rico.
Sheet metal workers in Binghamton,
n. Y. are being organized.
From March to April there was a
drop of AZ cents in the average week
" wage in New York state factories.
In Canada at least half the work
ers in n factory must be experienced
adults.
When working to full capacity the
Baldwin Locomotive Works turf out
5000 engines a year.
The International Moulders' Union
of North America now comprises
moulders of all metals.
In Leadville, Col, where mining is
the chief industry. wages have been
reduced 30 cents a day.
Practically all the workers in the
granite industry in Montpelier, VT, are
idle.
The iron and steel workers are or
ganizing the unskiiled with the skilled
of the trade.
in Russia. have. in many instances in
stalled the system of two 12-hour
shifts daily.
A provision of the New York COM
pensation law directs the payment of
500 to the state treasurer where an
employee dies from industrial injury
without leaving dependents.
Electric haulage by locomotives OPP
Grated from a trolley wire is forbid
den in gaseous portions of mines by
law in Pennsylvania.
The waste in industry attributable
to labor vary from 8 per cent in the
~ . frnIon " oO - A.
building trades.
The cooperative movement in Eng
land and Wales had in December, 1919
BOSS, 1856 members. and doing an annu-
al business of $50. 0OO. 900.
1t has been figured out that one
ounce of gold Will buy 20 hours of
work in the United States; 30 hours in
Great Britain; 100 in France; 200 in
Germany and 800 in Australia.
On December 1, 1921. 81 per cent of
the men employed on American vessels
were native born Americans. At pres
ent there are less than Is per cent of
them Americans.
Textile workers in New Hampshire
have accepted the states arbitration
plan for the settlement of the wage
controversy between the employers and
employees.
Works. councils are on the increase
in the United States and EMPLOYEES
generally are in favor of this plan of
participation in the fixing of wages
and working conditions.
Women workers in New York state
number / 135,34S or about a ninth of
the states population. That's "A good
many, but only 151.56O more women
are earning their own living than 10
years ago.
The tentative wage award for women
employees in mercantile establishments
in Kansas, fixing the minimum wage at
Si0O a week instead of $50, the
former minimum, has been made perm
anent and will go into effect in 60
days.
In Italy an act has been passed put
ting into effect the draft conventions
Of the International Labor organiZa- !
ton concerning the employment of
women and children at night. the en-
ployment of women before and after
childbirth. and unemployment.
A report by the Federation of Ger
man Employers associations states
that the 366. 900 textile workers en-
ployed by their members have a 49,
hour week wherever the 4S-hour week
prevails in most other trades. About
half the miners have a 42-hour week.
the only group in this class.
In a recent issue. the Pravda. off
ciai organ of the Soviet government
published an article relative to the
working hours in force in Moscow.
which show little observance of the
eight-hour day. According to the ar
ticle there are 800 factories operating
in the Moscow district, of which only
SO observed the eight-hour day, 80,
worked nine hours a day. "A from 10
to Il hours. II from IA 10 16 hours.
while Al factories did NOT have a reg
nlar schedule.
OF the 2997 employees of the North
crn Pacific railway who entered mill
tary service during the World war.
2J31 have returned and applied for
their positions in the railroad service.