The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-01
WORLD OF INDUSTRY

industrial employees in soviet Russia.
 Female workers in the British shirt manufacturing trade have begun work under a new scale Of wages
 Sugar cane waste is now being converted into coarse form of board used in lining walls.
 More than 5000 girls between 16 and IS years of age work in Con necticut factories.
 In 12 months the cloak and suit in dustry in New York will witness the expiration of all major collective con- tracts which are now in force.
 When Godfrey Dold. a watchmaker of Madison, Ind, was 75 years of age he drilled hole in No. 7 cambric needle from end to end
 The Amalgamated Clothing Work CTS of America will launch news paper advertising campaign for the purpose of enlisting new members in their union.
 classes all other indus tries in dollar value.
 On March 31, 1923, the cotton growing states in this country had only 7S per cent as many spindles as there were elsewhere in the United States.
 The National Spinning association in Japan has voluntarily reduced the hours of female workers from 12 to 10 hours day.
 A method has been developed in Europe for treating open-hearth steel for manufacture of church bells hay ing tones similar to those in which the usual alloys are employed.
 A New Jersey construction com pany has hired gang of ChiRese coolies to work in the trenches of sewer job they are now complet- ing.
 Baltimore, Md, now has more than 5000 industrial plants, employing more than 14S,O00 people.
 Plans for settling 1000 unemployed British families a year in New South Wales and Victoria have been com pleted by the British government.
 The Master Printers Federation, London, is urging Premier Baldwin to have an inquiry instituted into the printing department of the govern ment.
 Noiseless riveters operating on a rotary vibratory system are now of- fered, of bench and pedestal type, which 1t Is claimed will rivet the most intricate job in silence at a speed limited only by the operators ability to feed the work.
 English manufacturers recently filled order from iol, of California for a heavy cut glass bedstead, the purchaser asking that the design be ornate the cutting deep and massive, and that the article be made strong enough to be dependable.
 New York city had fewer strikes during the first six months of 1922 than at any time during the period of 1910-1922.
 More than 5o,o00 harvest hands are needed to take off the crops in Kansas and Oklahoma. Wages will range from S3 to $6 a day, with board and lodging.
 Proposed reduction of wages and increased working hours in the Brit ish building trades, are to be arbi- trated by employers and workers. The present weekly wages in the OOlAuiHS U dutS IduSbi rom 70 to JS per cent above pre-war rates.
 The bill recently passed by the Wisconsin legislature limiting the hours for women workers to nine hours a day and 50 hours a week be- came law without the signature of the governor.
 Fifty bricklayers led the men in a rush to be motion picture actors in a contest held in connection with the recent motion picture exposition in Chicago. On the women's side, stenographers slightly exceeded the number of bricklayers.
 About 50 railroads have filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission statements covering labor and ope- rating conditions during and after the shopmen's strike last year, but the commission ruled the statements would not be made public until sta tistical details had been compiled. The reports were asked for in a questionnaire on the efficiency and economy of railroad management.
 Samuel Blum of New York has turned over to his seven employees the business which he has run for a number of years. He also advanced
 
 The volume of employment at the beginning of May showed substan- tial increase, approximately 5000 persons having been added to the staffs of the 5,S20 firms making em- ployment returns to the Canadian bureau of statistics. Their pay rolls aggregate 752,037 workers, as com pared with 720.270 on April 1; the in dex number reflecting this gain rose from S76 at that time to 91.4 on May l, while sat the beginning of May, 1922, 1t had stood at s5.S and in May, 1921. at S4.1.
 An advance report on labor short age in the silk industry, as compiled by the National Industrial Conference Board, has just been received by the Silk Association of America. The data is a part of that compiled in survey of labor supplies and short ages in a large number of industries in the United States. The figures included in the report are based on returns from silk firms employing a total of 49,02S wage earners on March 15, 1923. Of these, 7,544 were made common laborers, 17,159 were made skilled laborers and 24,325 were female laborers.
 Official estimates put the cost of strikes during 1922 at s2,50o 100000, Q greater sum than 1t is possible for anyone to visualize. Comparisons give. an idea of it's magnitude. The year before the World war began the total outlay on the United States navy was but one-nineteenth of the huge sum. Thirteen Panama canals could be built for the amount of the loss to the nation through strikes last year alone. Of this enormous to- tai it is estimated that the nation wide coal strike made up twofifths, or S1.00O, 900 900. The loss to the miners in wages alone was s35O O00,- 900. That is at the rate of more than ( nnn nnn a dnu eNarY work ing