Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04

decided to rent the palaces to workers
organizations and to private concerns.
The British Cooperative Wholesale
society that it has taken
over an entire coal mine and is sink
ing two new shafts in its Shilbottle
coliery in order to secure coal at cost
for the 100000 families now supplied
through its retail cooperative stores. /
Virtually the entire granite indus
try of the United States has declared
for the open shop, with q reduction in
wages from IS and 50 to Sc a day. ac-
cording to II. {. Hefner of Denver.
| president of the Memorial Craftsmen of
America, a national association Of mon
ument dealers.
They were told not to go nearer than
1000 meters of their former place of
employment unless they pledged them
selves not 10 do picket duty. The krupp
company of Essen. which was formerly
engaged in the manufacture of arms,
but which is now engaged in the manu-
facture of a wide range of commodi-
ties, has announced that it's employees
are to be given an opportunity to be-
come stockholders in the enterprise.
BY the provisions of the compulsory
arbitration act. recently passed in Nor
way, impending strikes or lockouts. by
which the safety of the community may
be ieopardized, must be submitted to
an arbitration court consisting OF five
members. who are to decide all cues
ions at issue and whose decisions are
binding for one year.
Due to the competitive relations of
Dutch industries with those of other
countries which have no eight-hour or
similar law. the Holland government
proposes TO extend the working week
from i5 TO IS hours by lensthenipg
the legal workday to eight and one-half
hours, with an extra half hour on Sat-
urday.
The supply of farm labor has now
reached approximately normal proper
tons. This is in sharp contrast to the
year 1920, when the available supply
was about rs per cent under normal.
The demand for arm labor is now aboutI
10 per cent below normal: this. accord-v
ing to the United States department Of
agriculture, is ascribed to the fact that
farmers are either unwilling or eco
nomically unable to pay the current
wage rates.
In 1914. 14.6 per cent of the total
number of wage earners were employed
in the establishments where the pre-
valing hours of labor per week were
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establishments operating not less than
60 hours per week. In contrast with
this the census of 1919 reported $40
per cent employed in the former class
of establishment ts working not less
than 54 hoursl and 12.1 per cent In
the latter working not less than 80
hours).
The number of persons employed in
industry at the end of March. 1922,
was materially higher than it was one
year ago. Nine out of Is industries
showed increased numbers of workers,
while the four remaining had decreases.
In hosiery and underwear the number
of workers increased by 43.4 per cent.
The automotive industry had an in
crease of Dos per cent. The decrease
appeared in cotton manufactures, iron
and steel trades and paper making. The
total amount of wages paid was lower
in eight industries. In hosiery and
underwear manufacture, however, the
wage total paid during the month was
4S.3 per cent more than during the
same period in 1921, and in automobile
manufacturing the payrole was 29.S per
cent larger.
According to statistics given out by
the American Road Builders associa-
ton. there are 114,3o5 persons engaged
in road building work, There are So
600. 900 federal, state, town and coun-
~ highway officials, 1000 road con-
tractors. 1000 bridge contractors, 10
900 civil and highway engineers, TO- =
600 sutomotive and chemiAsl engineers y
and Ga25 yeoiogists. s