The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
 WORLD OF INDUSTRY

British coal production has shown a decided decline since the first of the year.
 Illinois industries are employing so.0o0 more workers now than they were one year ago.
 The New Hampshire Senate Killed the hill providing q 4s-hour work week for women and minors.
 The number of unemployed in Can ada is being reduced st the rate of 25,000 a month.
 Tn June, 1914. average weekly earn- ings of factory workers in New York was s12.70. while in January, l922. the amount had increased to s2s62f.
 In New York city the Young Mons Christian association is conducting drafting with view of filling the need of more men In the builders.
 over 100000 children. 10 to Is years Of age. were reported by the 1920 census as galnfully employed. 37e.oe3 being less than 1B years of age.
 The strike of workers in the sugar canef ields at Fort de France. Mar tintique. has ended.
 The British treasury department has been asked to replace the 1000 girls employed in the ministry of pensions by ex-service men.
 One in every 12 children between 10 and IS years of age in the United States is at work.
 A Swedish railroad has found the use of peat so practical that 1t is planning to abandon coal
 Textile plants in Reading. Pa. are working at full capacity.
 The weekly wage of clothing work CTS in New York Is now 13f per cent higher than In 1913.
 The highest paid workers in the clothing Industry are the cutters, whose weekly average earnings in 1922 were s45.5o.
 Fourteen per cent of the wage earners in the clothing industry are employed in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia. Rochester, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Boston.
 An effort is being made in Eng land to amalgamate~i textile trade unions other than cotton.
 The lowest paid worker in the clothing industry is the female hand sewing on pants, the weekly aver age being $ls.2T.
 The United states postal service employs more than 3ss,ooo people.
 Henry Ford will erect plant in St. Paul, Minn., to employ more than 14000 men.
 Labor unions in the province of Ontario in creased the membership more than 5000 during January.
 The present wage scale in the steel industry. in which % per cent of the employees are unskilled now Is 35 cents and possibly will be raised to 10 cents In the near future.
 One of the biggest manufacturers of automobile tires in the United States has raised the wages of men employees from s4 to s4.50 day and the wages of women employees from f2s0 to s2so.
 Employment in Iowa during Janu- ary was per cent greater than the preceding month, according 10 a re- port from the state commissioner of labor. In comparison with January, 1920. a gain of 45.5 per cent in work : Ing forces is noted.
 4 campaign to focus the attention of the 600,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America on the plan for the standardization of mines sug gested by the naturalization re- search committee has been begun by John Brophy, chairman of the re- search.
 The passage of the eight-bour day and minimum wage bills for women in industry will have disastrous effect upon the cotton goods indus tries in New York state. according to several mill owners who have indi- cated they will move their plants to southern cities.
 The prevailing shortage of coal and the advantages in the utilization of water power have caused a revival oi the extensive electrification plans ir Germany. Semi-official figures give total of 434.5 kflometers (37( rniles) in operation and s16 kilome. ters (5os miles) under construction or proposed on May ], 1922. In the electrified districts of Swe. den electric power is used for every possible purpose. including thrashfng E Considerable study has been giver even to the application of electric power to blowing, with more or les: success. Where equipment Is too ex. pensive to be bought by individua farmers. community ownership ar