The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Ninety per cent of the textile mills
in Germany are working on part time.

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Ninety per cent of the textile mills
in Germany are working on part time.
A large soap firm in England fur
ishes music and motion pictures fer
the comfort of their employees during
their lunch period.
Twenty thousand MORE industrial
accidents were reported to the Penn
sylvania Workmen's Compensation
bureau for the first four months of
1928 than for the corresponding
period of 1922.
Textile workers In Montreal are be-
ing organized with a view of having
100 per cent membership.
A bill to limit women's working
hours to eight day and As week
was defeated in the Pennsylvania
legislature.
For the last 80 years Jujiro Wada,
Japanese prGspector. has been hunt
ing gold in Alaska without success.
The deepest well in the world is in
Upper Silesia, Germany. 1t is dia-
mond drill hole, 1880 feet deep, in
coal field.
In 1920 there were s.641 more wom-
en- and $40 more men working as
telegraph operators than in 1910.
In an effort TO break the COM
munications strike, the Belgian gov
eminent has ordered military mobili-
cation Ct the railroad employees of the
country.
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more than $500 100000. the paper and
pulp industry of Canada employ
nearly $4,000 persons.
The lowest average weekly earn
ings for factory workers in New
in April. 1922. when the figure was
placed at s24.l5.
In the seven years the Pennsyl-
vania compensation act has been in
effect, only 329 persons have been
permanently disabled. while 95 per
cent Of the total has been in the
temporary disability class.
The present rate Of pay of chauf-
feurs. drivers and express handlers
In the clothing industry in New York
ranges from s4s to $40 "a week.
A census of employed in Milwaukee
shows an increase of So per cent in
the number of men employed in COM
parisLn with two years.
Midinettes in Berlin have ceased
work as a protest against the rejec-
tion of their demands for an increase
In wages approximating 100 per cent
There are in the United States
100000 civilian employees of the fed
eral. state. county and municipal gov
ernments. Their annual salaries ag-
gregate $4,000, 100000.
Members OF the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers union in Boston
have voted to accept a 10 per cent
increase in wages for all workers re-
ceiving $40 per week and less and 8
per cent increase fer all receiving
over $40 per week.
According to statistics filed by the
bituminous coal operators with the
United States Coal Commi ssion, WIN
dow cleaning is more dangerous &C.
cupation than coal mining. So are op-
erations with farm machinery, car
pentry. Quarrying, excavations In
gravel clay and. sand pits and also
painting (structuraD and placing
concrete.
Austria and Germany are the only
two countries for which unemploy-
ment figures show a substantial in
crease at the end of 1922. as COM
pared with 1921 1t has been esti-
mated that Austrian industries were
working at 40 per cent of their ca
pacity at the end Of 1922. In Ger
many seasonable unemployment in
acute this year. Employment in the
metal, electrical and chemical in
dustries is still good, the decline be-
Ing chiefly in the printing, food and
building trades.
The production in the United States
during the first quarter of 1928 of
95,315,574 pairs of footwear. other
than rubber. was an increase Of 20.5
per cent over the quantity manufac-
tured during the corresponding
period of 1922. All classes of foot
wear showed an increase in quantity.
the largest being mems shoes. ap-
proximately>5,o 900, 900 pairs. The next
In rank were womens shoes. nearly
100000 pairs. followed by infants,
with the approximate increase of
100000 pairs.
There are more workers in the coal
mining industry of the United King
dom at the present time than In 1913,
the year Of the greatest production.
the number employed on March 10 be-
ing 1.143,000, as compared with
1.127,00O in 1918. The average num-
Der of days worked has remained
more or less stationary for the last
three mt nths at 51s per week.
The United States Bureau of Mines
says the proper use of the breathing
apparatus after the recent mine ex-
plosion at Spangler. Pa, resulted d.
rectly in saving 20 lives.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
continues to operate at 95 per cent of
capacity. The company Is endeavor-
ing to catch up on orders, and untitled
business now stands at $4,000. 0OA
sufficient to insure capacity opera
tons throughout the year, without
including miscellaneous business,
which continues to come in at the
rate Of between 100000 and $1,000
900 month. The company has de-
livered 40 engines of the total order
of AIS placed by the Pennsylvania
railroad.