Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-17

unions for 1919 was 6.672,O59, as COM
pared with 5.427. 800 in 1918 and 1851
$50 in 1914. The individual unions in
creased from 800 in 1914 TO 116 In 1913,
of which 500 were in England. As in
Scotland and y in Ireland.
Since the enactment of the Lemieux
act in Canada. 55S boards of concilia-
ton TO adjudicate On industrial disputes
have been formed, and in only "a cases
were strikes not averted or ended.
1t is reported that in locomotive and
car construction Germany has already
made up all her losses during the war,
10000 cars delivered TO France.
OF the more than $4,000 strikes in
the nine-year period that ended De-
cember 81 last. more than $4,000 were
in seven states-New York. Pennsyl-
vania. Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Before the new year the total for
| these seven industrial commonwealths
is expected TO be well beyond the 49,
600 mark.
Many possible uses suggest them
selves for a special paper recently
inventor. The paper is remarkably
strong and can be crumpled up and
washed with soap and water, much al
one would wash clothes. So durable
| is this pepar that il can be used as a
covering for umbrellas, and when
| soiled can be easily cleaned at home.
OF special interest TO manufacturers
of wooden goods is an announcement
that a concern in Germany has placed
on the market a product that makes
wool immune from the attacks of
moths. By its use cleaners and dyers
can give their goods. at a small add
| tional cost, a moth-proof finish, and all
wooden fabrics can be successfully
treated. The goods are immersed in a
cold solution of the product and after
ward rinsed.
Lost Padre" a famous gold mine
which attracted much attention nearly
half a century ago, is no longer lost
| according to the statement of Miss
Annie L. Rose of Los Angeles, Cal.
who has spent the greater part OF her
life within a stones throw of the old
diggings. According to legend. the
neers in 1S43. when il was being work
ed by Indians. Since then, Miss Rose
says. the mine has never been worked.
Miss Rose says she has decided to
finance the operation on the mine in
association with several private indi-
viduals.
Four thousand mi members Of
the Stitchers' Local 81 OF Lynn. Mass,
have returned TO work after nearly a
months idleness. The women walked
out in protest against the alleged fail
ure of the shoe manufacturers to give
them back pay and returned with as
surance hat the question would be
taken up by the manufacturers execu-
tive board and a satisfactory agreemen emit
reached before the end of the week.
The German Clothing Workers
union has voted by a large majority TO
~amalgamate with the hatmakers and
the furriers Immediately, and with the
| textile workers as soon as conditions
permit. The decision was arrived al
during the fifteenth national conven-
ton of the union. and Is in hne with
the recent action of the Leipzig con-
~vention of the General Federation OF
Trade Unions.
Figures on the shoe industry Of the
state of Missouri, which have just been
complied by the bureau of labor Stats
tics list the state as third among the
states of the nation in the production
of boots and shoes. These figures,
which are the latest complete reports,
are for 1920. and it is believed that
more recent totals would give Missouri
higher ranking, as ONE of the factories
have dorAled their production