Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
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is provided en- route and the laborers
are carried directly to the plantation
where they are to work.
The railroads of the country repair
ed 13.400 locomotives from. October
10 to November /, the largest number
Of engines turned out of the repair
shops for a semi-monthly period dur
ing the last two years.
Directing TO a wage OF % marks an
hour. the teachers in C~ologne's CON
tinnation schools have struck for more =.
pay. Similar action already had beer
taken by the faculties of vocationaf|
institutions at Duisburg and Essen.
The Cologne staff includes teachers
from the public grade schools, engi-
neers and expert handworkers::
The eight-hour day law in Denmark
will be extended for the years 1924 and
| 1925 as the result of a report made
recently by the board of social well
fare. This law, which was enacted a
year ago TO remain in force until the
| end of 1923. has been attacked by
many interests as being responsible
for the increases in the cost or living.
but efforts to have it rescinded have
failed.
The Norfolk & Western railway has
| completed al agreement with its. shop
| employees as TO wages. rules and work
| ing conditions. the wage scale adopted
being that authorized by the labor
| board. The organization through
! which the shop crafts negotiated is not
affiliated with any union on any other
| road. nor with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Work on buildings in Dublin is at a
stsndstill owing to the notification by
the employers of a reduction in wages
to tie level of those paid in Great
Britain and the decision of the opera
tives not to accept any reduction.
New Hampshire manufacturers are
emphatically opposed to the enactment
of a mandatory 4S-hour law. "or any
other legislation which will prevent
Granite state industries from success
fully competing with other states of
f];eia1s of the association declared in
announcing the result of a referendum
ON the bill scheduled TO be introduced
at the next session of the legislature,
n~rovidinp A 4S-hour week for women
and minors.
Interesting experiments were. con
ducted recently in the BaggetsAAs col
l;erv near birmingham, England. t.
d~eteruine il wireless could be made a
useful means of communication zoe,
tween the lower workings Oh d T1aI
mine and the pithead offices. Inc
main pit shaft of this coilery is
nearly 700 yards deep. one OF the
deepest in the country. and the act
that communication was definitely es-
tablshed between the pithead and the
lowest part of the mine IN which op-
erations are carried on indicates that
the difficulties met with were not IN
superable. A
Increased employment is reflected IN
all but four of the major industrial
groups of the United States. The IN
dustries with increased employment
are as follows: Railroad repair shops:
tobacco manufacturers: textiles and
their products; food and kindred prod
ucts: miscellaneous leather and its
finished products; lumber and its man
ufacture. paper and printing, chem
ieals and allied products. Decreased
employment is disclosed in liquor and
beverages. vehicles for land trans
portation: metal and metal products
other than iron and steel. and stone,
clay and glass products.