Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-14

Union SCereOLypcfS III EaSSdlC, ~. J.'
are now paid $40 a week.
Women cigar workers are able to
earn as much as so a week.
Unionism in the coal fields had its
birth in 1S49 in the anthracite district.
New Jersey was the first state to
have a workingmen's compensation
law. ~.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad company
pays pensions to $685. employees.
Employment in the automobile fac
tories in Michigan Is fast nearing
| normal.
The pay of municipal Iaborers in
Bloomfield, N. j., has been cut from
81 to $3.50 per day.
The housing problem in London has
led to the development of %flathouses
as in New York and Paris.
The leading spinning and weaving
mills of the country have cut their
wages from 20 to 30 per cent.
During the last six years more than
$50, 900 has been negotiated for
! workers in Pennsylvania.
The 100000 employed in the mining
industry in the United States work on
an average of pa days a year.
Ship workers in San Francisco are
protesting against a 10 per cent cut
in wages by suspending work in many
instances. e.
Shorter hours are being ordered by
Norwegian employers in order that all
employees may be retained on the pay
roll.
In the Montreal cloak and suit in
the number of workers that were en-
ployed in 1918.
A survey by the American Legion
| shows that most OF the unemployment
is confined to the eastern half of the
| United States.
Both England and Scotland are fac
ing q tie-up of industries as a result
of the lockout of engineers in both
countries.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover has
called upon chambers of commerce and
other business organizations through
out the country to assist in compiling
unemployment statistics.
Use of the poorest quality of rub
Der scrap in place of firewood is giving
surprising results in Java. 1t has been
such a success that the railroads con-
template using it for fuel.
From January /. 1916, to March 81,
this year, LII .66S industrial acct
dents were reported in Pennsylvania.
OF these 1861 were fatal. 5000 in
volved disability and 1,151,S07 tempo
rary disability.
Payment of workers in Russian com
bines wage and barter systems under
| state control. The state classifies and
fixes the wages. ordering payment in
currency.
Danish trade unions. by a vote of
| 1856 to 100. have decided to accept the
| public mediator's compromise proposal,
| which has already been accepted by
the employers, thus bringing a two
month lockout to and end.
The entire Danish textile industry is
included in the recent lockout AFFECT
ing 10000 workers, according to lat
est reports. This takes in the mems
wear industries, the underwear manu-
features and a large number of other
kindred industries.
According to statistics compiled by
the United States Department of La
Dor. carpenters receive the major por-
ltiou of the money expended in building
a house, whether it be a frame or brick
house.
Certain vacant property in Christi
ana belonging TO the Norwegian gov
eminent will be used by it for the cree
ton of an apartment house for gov
eminent employees. The building will
comprise SIS three-to-four-room apart
ments.
Norwegian employees state that the
compulsory arbitration court, by grant
ing high scales of wages to workmen,
in 1920, has practically made it impos-
| sible for Norwegian industries to COM
pete with the industries of other coun-
tries.
II is asserted that the factory act.
which has been in force since 1911 in
India, has been the direct cause of the
decrease in accidents to factory work