Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-10
Labor Notes

Hosiery workers in Hagerstown,
Md, have been granted q wage In
crease amounting to about II per cent
Sixty Kansas firms have entered ap-
pearances to contest in court the new
minimum wage law for women In that
state.
Workmen's compensation, totalling
So ,05S had been incurred since the
first of this year on accidents in Penn
s~ylvania.
Approximately half of the applicant.
to the Ohio state employment bureau
are placed in jobs. Most of those
placed are skilled workers.
Indiana coal operators are working
on a plan to assemble a number OF
workers from each concern and work
just one mine.
The silk industry, employing 10,O23
children, was the only textile industry
to note an increase in child labor In
1910.
Under the workmen's compensation
and mothers pension acts, S2,112,293
and S4SS,95 respectively, were dis
pensed by the British Columbia gov
eminent last year to persons entitled
TO benefits because of industrial acct
dents.
Summarizing inspections from Jan
uary to July in Maryland. there were
1912 business establishments last
year employing 1922 and this year
the same number of plants have l5,-
800 on payrolls.
Employment in New York state fac
tories increased . per cent over June
according to reports received by the
state department of labor from 1,514
representative manufacturers EN-
ploying over 100000 workers.
The Great Northern railroad an
nounces that its st. Cloud shops are
operating above 100 per cent of nor
NAL. Where $50 are usually EN-
ployed. it was said, SIT are now work
ing. Many of the employees pride
themselves on being James ]. Hill vet
Grams.
Cotton mills in 1920 employed 21,.
| S74 children, Of whom 10,49S were
males and 1877 females, a decrease
| Of 46.1 per cent, compared with 1910
knitting mills employed 1881 chill
dren. 2,OS7 boys and 1904 girls, a to
tai decrease of 2S per cent, compared
with the preceding census.
The largest street-paving program
ever undertaken by a city in the soutf
is under way in Dallas, Texas. L
calls for paving 100 streets IN a rev
years, which will give Dallas 2U
miles of asphalt street, representing
an investment of S15.0O0.000, in add
! tion to 20 miles of macadam and gray
eled streets.
The Paving Cutters union OF tbs
| United States and Canada has signed {
~three-year agreement with the granite
paving block manufacturers associa
ton OF the United States. All thu
| New England state branches, repre-
| senting one-half the unions member
ship. is covered. A slight reduction
for piece work was accepted, but nj
| change was made in the 44-hour weel
or the rate for day work and working
hours.
On June q the Switzerland nationa
assembly, by a vote of So to Al. passed
an amendment to the factory laws
proposed by the federal council, per
hitting the latter to extend the 4S
hour week TO 81 hours in times of ma
tional emergency, and on other occa
sions in isolated industries when tn
necessity seems urgent. No working
day, however, can exceed 10 hours.
After an interval OF three years tn
German General Confederation o
Trade Unions held its eleventh con
gress at Leipzig late in June. TIL
congress was attended by delegate
representing 40 declarations and 1850,
900 members belonging to the confed
Grafton at the beginning of 1872. IN
membership of the confederation !
greater than it has ever been before
according to the report of Presiden
Theodore Leipert, which stated tina
the number of workers affiliated ha'
increased from 1,600, 900 at the end o
1918 to the present membership o
100, 900.
The textile industries during 49,
employed 54,649 children. a decrease o
child employment of 29.9 per cent, a
compared with 1910, according to tn
1920 census of children employed
made public by the bureau of the cen
sus. The total number of children, i
to Is years of age. inclusive, who wer
engaged in gainful occupations as @
January /. 1920, was 1,060.S5S, Q
whom 714,24S we're boys and 1851
girls according to the figures, whic
show a decrease In child labor of 46.
per cent, as compared with 1910.
Skilled industrial workers in sovle
Russia are paid wages amounting I
q. 900 rubles, plus a % per Ger
monthly salary of 14,000,000 ruble,
a worker in All-Russian Electricit
Works in Charkow draws a MONTH
wage of IS rubles and 40 kopeks j
gold, representing 451a per cent G
the pre-war average earnings of
Russian industrial worker.