Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-08

court have been filed in the common
pleas court in Cincinnati against mem
bers of the Boot and Shoe Workers
union. who are charged with violations
of injunctions.
One billion cigars are manufactured
annually in the district of which Phil
adelphia is the financial and com:der-
cial center. In the city proper there
are factories making more h oo0,-
000,O0O cigars per year.
Strike-breakers employed IN the
Tucson (Ariz.) division of the South
ern Pacific railroad have forIatd a
union" and are accorded full recogni-
ton by railroad Officials.
The Georgia legislature has strength
ened the workmen's compensation law.
| The death benefit has been increased
from $4,000 to $500; maximum bene-
fit from S12 to SIS weekly. and the
waiting period shortened from Il days
70 { days. The full disability benefit
has been increased from $1,000 to
$1,000.
Among the regulations of the new
mining law. enacted by the German
~reichstag on July II, 1922, is the
provision for shorter hours for m
! ployes working underground in a tenn
p~erature of more than rs degrees
hahrenhelt.
Growth of sweatshop production in
the brush and broom industry has led
the German Wood Workers union to
demand of the government legislation
prohibiting child labor; placing wages
for home work on the same scale as
wages paid TO factory workers;
regulating the sanitation of family
workrooms and providing for the
gradual decrease of sweatshop labor
until finally it is entirely prohibited.
For the first time in many months,
! the department of labor survey of en-
; ployment conditions just made public
for the month Of August, showed an
increase in unemployment. OF 1,42S
] industrial firms surveyed, who nor
| maIly employed 100000 workers, a
: decrease of 1881 employees on August
81 was shown as compared with
Z July 81.
/ Salubrious effects Of the cutting
down of working hours from As to "A
e a week are already apparent in the
E, vital statistics gathered by the In
ternational Typographical hnion.
Where the average age at which mem
bers died in 1920 was 53.17, it was
raised to 54.32 in 1921, and has al
! ready jumped again for 1922, being
now $40.
Orders for 10000 ons of foundry
iron have been received in Great Brit
{ ain recently, as a result, il is believed.
of labor disputes in the United States
and Canada. Scottish iron masters
whose stacks had to be cleared out,
! are preparing to light their furnaces
in consequence of the orders.
5 There were 323,1 04 carpenters aft
E lated TO the United Brotherhood oi
l Carpenters and Joiners of America or
. June 80 last. according to Frank Dut'
~. general secretary of that orgaul
cation. On that date the brotherhood
i consisted of 2.31S local unions. IL
u district councils, 20 state councils, !:
{ provincial councils in Canada and ~
ladies' auxiliary unions.
In Phoenix, Ariz.. County Attorne'
g Shepherd has filed 100 civil actions
against the Arizona Eastern railroad
4 for violations of the state fuii-cre"
- law. The prosecuting official state
= that every train operating betweet
certain stations for the last severe
weeks has been in defiance Of the law
More than 1000 clerks and stauol
g pm oeylsothndwwac e
:. employees on the FL Paso and South
western railroad have been grsnte'
e an increase of from 3 to 4 cents 81
70 hour. This increase restores tue tHr
~ mer wage scale in effect before u
,v decision OF June 80, 1922. of the ran
road labor board cutting the wages U
these employees.