The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-08
THE AGE- HERALD'S WEEKLY CALENDAR OF ORGANIZED
WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Austria has more than a million
trade unionists.

Austria has more than a million
trade unionists.
There are two million organized
workmen in Czechoslovakia.
Shoemaking s the chief industry in
Brockton. Mass.
More than a half million persons
in CzechoSlovakia are unemployed.
Company unions have been formed
on three railroads in Colorado.
Pennsylvania has more than 5000
industrial plants,
Germany is still making great
quantities of Christmas toys.
The mining industry in Pennsyl
vania is now working to full ca
pacity.
Important industries in Pennsyl-
vania are experiencing difficulty in
securing labor.
The medium wage of white wom-
en- workers in Alabama, South Caro-
lima, Missouri. Rhode Island and
Kansas ranges from $3.50 in Ala
bama to $1265 in Missouri.
The Alabam division of the United
Mine Workers is working out scale
of wages which will be demanded
in union mines in that state.
According to the Kentucky law,
the 1O-hour day and tho e0-hour
week are the maximum schedules al
lowed for women.
When the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany ignored the seniority rule at
the Spring Mountain mine more than
500 miners quit work.
Workers in the Erie railroad shops
at Bradford, Pa, have secured bet
ter minimum wage rate, as well as
better working conditions.
Knit goods and textile manufac-
turers in Illinois are vigorously OPP
posing the proposed eight-hour law
for women workers.
The lower bsanch of the Wiscon-
sin legislature has passed bill
making an eight-hour workday for
factories and manufacturing estab-
lishments.
The industrial crisis in Austria
compels thousands of workmen To
take involuntary holidays. During
the first half of 1922, 77S,000 days
were lost by workers.
Members Of the United Textile
Workers in the Fall River cotton
mills have perfected their organiza-
ton so that they can walk out Of
the mills at moments notice.
quarter of the women workers
in Rhode Island earn less than $13
per week.
The largest furniture factory in the
United States is located in Blooming
ton, Ind.
Diamonds have been discovered in
Dutch Guiana in field that has been
yielding gold nearly half a century.
Bicycle manufacturing was started
in France in 1868.
A machine has been Installed in the
government printing plant at Berne
that can print, count and perforate
10000 two-colored postage stamps a
minute.
Establishment of clearing house
for apprentices and a plan for the
proper placing of applicants for work
in Industrial establishments are two
plans for improving the Industrial
situation in Philadelphia, under con-
sideration by the industrial COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce.
A2oper cent increase in wages and
the right to call strikes in association
shops which are not running union
factories are two of the demands
presented by the White Goods Work.
ers union leaders at a conference
held in New York with the leaders
of the Cotton Garment Manufacture
ers association,
More than 100000 persons have
been separated from the government
pay rolls in the two years ended
March 4. 1928. The exact figures of
the net decrease as given out by the
White House are 102.101. Great as
that reduction is, the taxpayer con-
tinues to support more than half
million federal employees.
Child labor in Wisconsin is de-
creasing, according to the report of
an investigation conducted by the
state industrial commission. Stricter
educational requirements are said to
be responsible for the change. The
number of child-labor permits issued
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1922, was only 6,079. compared with
5000 in 1918. These figures in
cluded vacation and after-school per-
mits. The number of boys to whom
permits are issued is decreasing
faster than the number Of girls.
While the number of women in do
nestle and personal service has de-
creased from 31.3 to 25.6 and in agri-
culture from PA to 1917, the percent
age in professional service has
jumped from 81 to 11.9 and in trade
it has similarly increased from SIS
to 7.8.