Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24

I Average hourly earnings In the wool
en- and worsted industry have been
reduced 24.5 per cent since 1920 and
average full time weekly earnings a
per cent. Hourly earnings are now 16S
per cent above the 1913 scale and full
time weekly earnings Isl per cent
| above. Full time hours per week,
which in 1920 were slightly more than
4S or S6 per cent of the 1913 work
week, are now 81 per cent of the pre-
war week.
Highest payrolls since February,
| 1921, when the first of the postwar
wage reductions were made, were dis.
tributed by industrial concerns OF
Youngstown and immediate vicinity
during October. Figures announced by
| banks there show October payroHs
amounted to S.. ,494. IN increase of
500, 905 over September.
No woman employed in a textile mill
PENNSYLVANIA law for one day can work
an additional shorter period in another
mill on the same day, even though the
second plant be operated by another
owner or manager.
The typical freight car spends IA
weeks of the year on loading and I'M
loading tracks and six weeks being
switched to and from these tracks. two
weeks awaiting shippers orders and
three weeks of sheer idleness because
of arrival At destination on Sundays
and holidays. Thus half the year is
spent in the work of being loaded and
unloaded.
Current wages of chemical workers
compare %favorably with average wages
elsewhere in German industry. whereas
before the war such records as are
available indicate that they were in
some cities somewhat below the aver
age. The chemical worker is at present
receiving a bonus of n mark hourly
for his wife and for each child. On
October / the hourly income of a skilled
worker with a wife and two children
was therefore $3.50 marks, and his
weekly earnings amounted to 4156.SO
marks.
The bill providing for a revision of
the working day on French railroads
effect small economies in the operation
of the roads, which are now working
under a heavy deficit. A distinction is
made between active labor and mere
presence on the job. In the former
class the S-hour day still obtains, while
in the latter the length of the day varies
! according W TIE uGtute u ire WIN
Each employee must put in 2504 hours
of work a year. with extra pay for
overtime. The indefinite nature of this
provision for overtime payment is ex-
pected to neutralize the good features
of the bill.
The pay of office workers showed
some increase during October. acre.d-
ing to the American. Employment eS-
change. Male accountants and book
keepe,s average increased approximate.
" 10 per cent over September md
showed a tendency to resume last years
high mark. Male office help generally
averaged a similar increase. A 20 per
cent jump in the pay of girl clerks and
general office workers mot including
stenographersls as compared with the
corresponding period of last year was
the biggest increase of the month.
The Oldest employe of the oldest rail-
road in the United States. L. +. Thomp-.
son of Parkersburg, w. Va, celebrated
his ninety-ninth birthday recently--a
| distinction held by few who are as
active ut this age as the present NestoT
of the Baltimore & Ohio. He is older
thar the railroad itself, having been
born in 1923, or four years before the
city of Baltimore gave birth IN 1927 to
the organization with which he has beer
identified for 65 years. Thompson was
pensioned by the company in 1900. -
ynars AFRO