Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-10
ENGINEER TO TALK
ON MUSCLE SHOALS
PROBLEM BUTTE
National Leader in Profession
Will Tell Students of Other
Paramount Subjects.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Butte, Oct. 9.-Returning east from
a nation wide tour which ended IN
San Francisco early in October, when
the national meeting of the American
Society of Civil Engineers was held,
i. W. Wallace of Washington, execu-
tive secretary of the American engi--
neering council of the Federated
American Engineering Societies, viii
speak before the faculty and student
body of the School of Mines here Fri
day, October 13. On the same day he
will deliver an address TO the Mon
tana Engineering society.
Made Nationwide Tour
After leaving San Francisco. Mr..
Wallace first visited cities in Wash
ington and Idaho. From Butte he Will
go to Duluth and Columbus, Ohio.
Mr.. Wallace, who is president of the
Eyesight Conservation Council of
America and a director of the National
Personnel association is interpreting
the mission of the federation, organ
lied with Herbert Hoover as first
president, to the engineers of the west,
where a large growth in the fedora
TONS membership and influence Is
looked for during the next year.
A series of addresses In engineering
centers is being delivered by Mr.. war
lace, in which he dwells on the three
shift day, the investigation OF the
Muscle Shoals problem, which IS 10
be made by engineers, and a variety
of other social, engineering, economic
and political subjects.
Discuss Shift Work
One of the principal topics OF these
addresses is the report of the Amerl-
can Engineering Councils committee
on work-periods in continuous indus
try on THE Twelve-Hour Shift In
American Industry .
This report embodies the results OF
a nationwide survey of 40 continuous
industries and recommends the aboll-
ton of the t~wo-shift day of l. hours
in favor of the three-shift day of eight
hours. The chairman of the committee
is DR.. II. L. Howe of Washington. The
field work was directed by Bradley
| S%toughton of New York. who inyestl-
gated the steel and iron industry, and
Horace B. Drury of Washington. The
Cabot fund of Boston co-operated In
the undertaking, which is described
by Prof.. Samuel ActuHe l-Inueay VI
| Columbia university, representing the
| Cabot fund, on the most important IN
| vestigation of any industrial situation
ever conducted in this country.
Report Out Soon
The report, which will soon be is
| sued in complete form, according to
an announcement made at the office
of the American Engineering council,
Engineering Societies building. -
West Thirty-ninth street, New York,
reaches the general conclusion:
las to the extent of continuous
work in American industry, there are
upwards Of 40 continuous industries
operating more or less completely
upon a shift system. They employ
between 100000 and 100000 wage
earners on shift work. Their families
! constitute from 100000 to 2.OOO,0O
persons who are dependent upon earn
ings from shift work.
There are 100000 w~age-earners
working on 12-hour shifts. They and
| their families number more than
l ,000,0 600 persons.
The logical alternative to the two
12-hour shift system is the three eight
hour shift system"