The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-20
THE WORLD OF IN- DUSTRY
Coal Miners in Nova Scotia are ask ng for $7 8 day wage scale.

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 Coal Miners in Nova Scotia are ask ing for a s7 day wage scale.
 British boot and shoe workers are employed only on part time at present.
 About 40 per cent of the industrial workers in Wisconsin are minors.
 The United Garment Workers have abandoned their plan to organize the mems shirt industry in Philadelphia.
 The compulsory eight bill as applied to mills and factories. has been defeated In the Wisconsin senate.
 When working on full time the Baldwin Locomotive Works employ about 10000 workers.
 The average weekly earnings of all New York factory workers In March was $2692.
 So successful has been the Amalga- mated Bank of New York that 1t will increase the capital and surplus 50 per cent.
 As long as adverse conditions pre- vail in the fur industry in New York no learners will be admitted to the trade.
 The annual manufacture of carpets in the western region of Asia Minor is estimated at s75,ooo,oo0.
 Coal taken from submerged vessels in salt water is found to be much improved as fuel, leaving but little sh when burned
 Though Rumania has an area of nearly 60.000 acres recognized as oil- bearing land, less than 6,2o0 acres are being worked
 Bolivia is known to have peat beds containing fuel which if dried would have the heating value of 15,000,00o tons of coal.
 Following the raise in wages granted to settl workers railroads all over the country are granting in- creases to their workers outside the office positions.
 In order to build s1,Ooo, 900 hotel in Asheville. N. C.. the builders plan to level a hill which is 100 feet high
 Consideration is being given by the city council of Vienna to plan ap- propriating 120. .000. .0o0. 900 crowns for new construction work in the city
 The French Undertaker's Union has called a general strike throughout the country to support wage demands of it's members.
 Fifteen hundred shoe workers in Boston have quit work in an effort to enforce their demands for a 30 per cent wage increase.
 Members of the typographical un- ion in Cleveland, O., have signed a two-year agreement with newspaper publishers.
 Laborers on farms throughout the United States now receive an aver age wage of s4l.70 month without board.
 More than 100000 boilermakers, plumbers and joiners employed in the British shipyards have been locked out
 The United Hatters of America propose to own their own hat factory as well as acquire a chain of stores to be owned and operated by the union.
 
 ing the locomotive industry of Ger many. one factory having been com pelled to drop 900 workmen.
 Mir and Mrs. Charles Sweeney of Augusta, Me. celebrated recently rage as well IS the fiftieth anniver- sary of their employment in the same mill.
 The Ohio state senate has rejected a proposal to create a fact finding commission to investigate minimum wages.
 The Amalgamated Textile Workers have withdrawn from the Federated Textile Unions of America, which it took the initiative in forming two years ago.
 The present system of piecework with minimum guarantees will be continued in the shops of the Asso- ciated Ribbon Manufacturers of Greater New York.
 During the period from February l5 to March 15 the cost of living in the United States increased IF points. or II per cent. according to the re- suits Of comprehensive investiga- tion just completed by the national industrial conference board.
 Pike county, Arkansas, which has the largest peach orchard in the country, has the only diamond mine on the western hemisphere, has a bed of asphalt and an oA well and is now producing sapphires which were cut by an expert gepl cutter and which rival the diamonds in their brilliancy
 Factory employment throughout the United States increased 2.1 per cent during March and average week ly earnings 2S per cent, according to reports to the United States depart ment of lbaor, bureau of labor sta tistics. The reports cover 5.453 repre- sentative establishments in 43 indus- tries, covering 2.135,564 employees
 Plans are being discussed by the Muslin Underwear Manufacturers as- sociation and the Associated Silk and Muslin Underwear Manufacturers As- sociation in New York, whereby school will be established for the pur-