The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
WORLD OF INDUSTRY

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 Industry in this country saves $500, 0,oo0.o00 annually as a result of scientifical research work.
 Extensive deposits Of manganese that have been found along the Bo- quareon river in Panama will be mined by American interests.
 The Krupps works In Germany now employ more workers than were en- gagged in pre-war days.
 Cotton goods mills throughout the country report gain Cf 52 per cont in employment during the last year.
 About 10000 shopmen employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company have received sS-cent wage increase.
 A lift In tho Woolworth building. New York. travels 40 miles and makes 4,0oo stops daily.
 Plans have been made for the cleo trificatitn of Palestine by raising the level of the Sea of Galilee and har- messing the Jordan river.
 For billboard painters scaffold has been invented that can be sus- pended from the top of board with out touching the painted surface.
 Nearly all the anthracite coal pro- duced in the United States is mined in Pennsylvania.
 The walkout of more than 1000 bricklayers in New York has brought about a tie-up of s2oo.0o0,oo0 worth of construction.
 A 10 per cent increase In wages, the second Increase within 60 days, has been put into effect at the Lau- rens (S. CD cotton mills.
 The International Paper company has insured all its employees under a blanket policy, which not only covers death. but accidents as we'll.
 The wages Cf servant girls In Osaka, Japan. have gone up 1900 per cent in the last 30 years.
 The Railway association of Canada has received 60 days notification from 10000 employees, asking that wage and working conditions be re- opened.
 West Virginia leads all the states In the production of chestnut and yell low cedar.
 German shipyards constructed a total tonnage of 509,o64 during 1921. being 129,00 greater than the high est figure reached before the war.
 More than 100 local unions in New York are represented as shareholders in the recently-opened Federation bank in that city
 The rapid spread Of labor banks has started a mushroom growth of other cooperative labor enterprises ranging from stores to 'doughnut shops.
 The needle trades In New York oity have a health center with specially equipped department for electric treatment of diseases to which work CTS are subject.
 Approximately 5000 shopmen of tho northwestern region of the Pennsyl- vania railroad system have received an increase In wages from 72 cents an hour to 75 cents, outside of Chi cago. where they receive 76 cents
 The last weekly bulletin of the agricultural department states that on April l the departments investi- gations showed that the supply of farm labor offering was only SS.4 per cent of the demand for such labor, representing a shortage of Ills per cent.
 Disabled English soldiers are being employed in diamond-cutting fac tory opened in Brighton, England. They are able to earn as much as $zo a week.
 The International National Print ing Pressmen have hospital in Ten nessee where ailing members rom all over the nation are to be sent.
 The average level of wages in all trades in Great Britain Is now esti- mated at about 175 per cent of the pre-war figure, while the cost of nv- ing index stood at 174 per cent.
 Attracted by higher wages. scores of Chinese girls have deserted thelr Humanitarian posts In medical mis- sions in China to seek employment In hair net factories there.
 The bureau of the census reports 37.2S7,2G5 cotton spinning spindles in the United States on April 30, of which 33,515,791 were in operation some time during the month. against 35,5OO,51S in March and 31,389,69o TOT April, 1922. The aggregate numper of active spindle hours reported TOT the month was S,7S7, ,443,S97.
 More than 1000 Pennsylvan1a raii- road employees at present engaged In the company's offices in Pittsburg arc to be transferred to Philadelphia in connection with a merger of depart ments.
 One of the most curious causes for a strike of workmen was that re- ported from the Ohio coal fields. Ihe men employed in a certain mine Were much attached to mule called "Ilm." The mine boss decided to transfer Jim to another mine. Next morning 400 men were on strike ana in the end Jim stayed where he was.
 With an annual production or about 1S,000,000 tons, India Is known to have several large and undeVel- oped coal fields and some new de- posits of unknown area have been discovered recently.
 Tho paper car wheel that Intrigued the imagination of America years ago and which once served on every Pullman car, is now only memory. The steel wheel has succeeded the paper cored wheel in every instance
 The introduction of modern farm ing methods and implements into South Africa has done great deal to the National Institute of Progress sive Farming, but American farm machinery for use on the African con tinent needs to be built like pat tleship' to withstand the rigors or South African life and the tempera- ment of the native laborer.
 Railway wagon building and re- pairing trades in Great Britain in- cluding several leading unions, have recently voted to stabilize existing rates, with certain notifications, un- til December 31, 1923, although em- blowers intended reductions.
 There are 25 clock and watch fac tories located in the Black Forest, which employ 3,700 persons. Nine Of these factories are very large, em- blowing from 600 to 2,000 workers; three of them employ between 100 to 200 workers each and each of the re- p,aininr 13 have less than 100 em