The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-05
B OF l.. r. & F MEETS
WORLD OF INDUSTRY


 Public utilities in Pensylvania have payroll of $13o,o0o,0oo an- nually.
 In St. Louis plasterers are receiv- ing $14 for an eight-hour day.
 Nearly a million a. d a half persons are employed in industrial plants in Pennsylvania.
 Average weekly wages in Philadel- phiaare advanced from $25.5l in April to $26.71 in May.
 The total weight of an engine and tender, largest of its type ever uilt, delivered to western railroad, was '644, 500 pounds.
 About 5000 employees are affected by the lockout in the clothing shops in New York.
 Nearly 1,5OO women in the Unite' States are engaged in cio--@d mining:
 The Michigan Central .At1 >. build $4,00O,000 freight yard in To- ledo.
 \Great Britain's coal output now
  weekly.
 More than 34,O00O 900 tons of steel ingots were produced in the United States last year.
 Illinois coal operators charge the high cost of coal is due to the union ban on labor-s saving machinery.
 The earliest records on mineralogy are lists Sf minerals with descriptions that were compiled by Theophrastue four centuries B. C.
 Work stopped suddenly in a Green castle, Ind, sawmill when a mother skunk and five little ones crawled from log ready for cutting.
 A brick chimney SS feet high in Maine was recently moved eight feet without injury.
 Ephraim Riddle of Newbold, Heath, England, who has been working in the coal pits since he was Il, has retired at the age of Fl.
 Automobile production in the United States made new record in May, by turning out 950,1S0 passenger cars and 42,9S3 trucks.
 Flat sheets of steel fabric are im- bedded in the more improved types of concrete roads to insure their life.
 Germanys SOo,oOO metal workers threaten a walkout unless they are granted an increase of 25 cents an hour in wages. They are now re- ceiving 25 cents an hour.
 shoeing S40OO horses in 24 years is the record of Dan Wallace, Lodi. Cal, black smith. He is one of the few that the automobiles has not driven out of commission.
 Puddlers in the iron industry will receive a wage advance of s1.76 a ton ination of selling prices.
 A new kind of business, is being started in New York city-that of a dry goods commission house. in which the employees will fix their own pay, the founder depending upon the honesty of his employees.
 Three states and one territory have in the present year enacted old-age pension laws, according to state mert today by the American Asso- are Pennsylvania, Montana, Nevada and Alaska.
 In March of this year hourly earn inss of all wooden mill workers in the country were 476 cents, and weekly earnings $23.12.
 Felt hat strikers affiliated with New York Local g., yesterday voted to accept the settlement reached by their representatives with the manufactur- CTS. h-
 tI is said that when 70 per cent Of ceriumnls is alloyed with 30 per o~nt of iron the metal thus produced pos sesses the remarkable property of giving off shower of sparks when struck lightly by steel wheel
 In Shanghai. the labor unions have three daily newspapers. and in Can ton the Beggars' Guild, well-organ- ized group of mendicants, has publi- cation to give attention to their wants and interests