The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
WORLD OF INDUSTRY

Since 1910 women in the professions
have increased 1875 per cent.
In Alaska there are only zoos gain
fully employed women.
The Russian testile industry Is now
in a period of depression.
More than $4,000 paper mill work.
ers have been granted a wage In
crease of cents an hour.
Approximately 100000 men in this
country are engaged in making, sell
ing or repairing automobiles.
American builders will take charge
of gigantic project for the con-
struction of hundreds of workers
homes in Chile.
Nearly 5000 women in the United
States are employed as elevator op
orators.
The Bethlehem Steel company is
Mexican workmen.
Toronto telephone workers propose
organizing a union In which they ex-
pect to enroll every worker.
The lower branch of the Illinois
legislature has passed a bill making
the working day for women in bust
ness and industry eight hours instead
of ten.
An English clock is run without at
tention for 1000 hours with q single
cell dry battery.
Mining engineering is apparently
by at least one woman.
Women workers In automobile
factories increased 1,4os per cent
from 1910 to 1920. The increase for
men operatives for the same period
was only 1854 per cent.
Employees of the American Stores
company are being offered stock in
the company at the rate of $40 per
share. to be paid for over a period Of
five years.
"A fourweek course in coal mining
will be given during the coming sum-
mer at Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology.
Joseph verchota. tailor and presi-
dent of the trades and labor council,
has been inaugurated mayor of La
Crosse, Wis.
A recent report of the United Mine
Workers of America shows that the
union In six months obtained $2,7s6,-
l4o.Ss, spent $2,335 230.60. and had a
balance of s1.1S2.259.4
Italy. which leads tho world in tho
consumption of copper sulphate, also
stands at the head of the list of pro-
ducers. The factories of this impor-
tant branch of the chemical industry
are scattered throughout the coun-
try, being most numerous in the
north.
CHuer INC Will OF horace ScuoQer
Sears, late member of the firm of
Wellington, Sears & Co., cotton
goods the sum of 5000, with 800 ad-
ditional for every five years of SER
vice. is left to each of the company's
employees In Boston. New York
Philadelphia. Chicago. st. Louis. San
Francisco, New Orleans, Atlanta and
elsewhere.
Coal production in Alabama for
the first quarter of the year Is esti-
mated at 100000 tons. The record
was reached the week ended March
8, when 416,o00 tons was mined.
Tho coal mining industry is al
ways tho largest consumer Of black
powder and permissible explosives
the consumption usually comprising
about IS per cent of the entire
amount manufactured. In 1922 tho
coal mines used 6,190 Ats kegs. or
154,76l.950 pounds OF black powder
as compared with 6.190.47s kegs, or
154,761.950 pounds in 1921.
Austria's shoe industry turns out
between 100000 and $4,000, 900
pairs annually. OF this amount $780,
600 to 100000 pairs are sold in the
domestic market and the remainder
is exported. The factories supply 40
ports per cent. and shoemakers the
rest. The production Of tho factories
amounts to about 9,250,000 pairs an
nually, of which 3,250.000 pairs are
consumed locally and 100000 pairs
exported.
Last year the total wage bill OF the
Glass l railroads, including Is
switching and terminal companies.
was 81. $3.50, 1S0,772, and 1t was paid to
an average number of 1.645.244 en-
ployes, according to special report
Of the Interstate commerce commits
sion. In January, 1922, 1,552,014 men
were on the payrolls OF the railroads.
which number had increased by the
end of December to 1,7SS,590. The
average wage for all classes OF rail-
road employees, exclusive OF execu-
tives, officials and staff assistants,
was $1,622.36.
The novel furnace device Of a south
African mining engineer automat-
ically gives steel rock drills the
right temperature for temper1ng. A
magnet holds the steel In place for
heating against the tension of
spring, and as the steel loses its
magnetic properties at the tempering
temperature, 1t Is released at that
point from the magnetic pull and
Withdrawn by the spring.
GARMENT WORKERS UNION
Garment Workers union No. 81
will meet at Fraternal hall next Sat-
urday afternoon at the regular hour.