The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-02
St. Louis Carpenters and Master
Builders Enter Into Three
Year Agreement.
WORK is NOT TO BE STOPPED
Seven Thousand Toledo Workmen oh.
tain Increase in Wages Without
Any Trouble With Employers
Other News of Labor
World.

erS # st. Louis have signed Il three
year agreement to submit to arbitra-
ton any disputes that may arise and
providing that work will not stop pend
ing adjustment. The board of arbitra-
ton will consist of two men named by
the carpenters and two by the employ
crs, and If these fail to reach an agree
ment a fifth will be selected.
Nearly 1000 Toledo workmen have
received an increase in wages, accord
ing to announcement made by labor
leaders The concessions were secured
without labor trouble. Nearly all
branches of skilled labor are repre-
scented in the voluntary movement.
The year after the signing of the
| Declaration of Independence the Sc
lectmen of Newburyport, in Massa-
chusetts-the colonies being at war
and workmen being few-thought it
advisable to establish scale of wages.
A carpenter by their action in no in
stance was to be paid more than $1.33
Il day the length of which was from
Sunup to shutdown.
Coal operators in the Paramount dis
trict in West Virginia have granted the
demands of the miners for the eight
hour day and higher wages, according
to announcement by the West Virginia
Coal Operators association. About
10000 men are affected. There have
been scattered strikes in the district.
The Wilton Wooden company of Will
ton, Me-, has announced raise of 10
per cent in wages to all day help, and
20 per cent to night help. This is the
second advance of 10 per cent given
This year, besides raise of 10 per cent
given last fall to cover reduction of
hours from IS to Sc per week.
The protection of women employed
in danger zones is now being perfect
ed by scientific experts in England.
Many safeguards are already in force,
such as ample washing facilities, fire
proof overalls, wells and respirators.
| gloves face ointment or lotion.
-Dr'- tTE0uIs I. Harris, head of the divl-
sion Of industrial hygiene of the New
York city department of health, re-
| Gently met Il large delegation of trade
| union representatives and with them
planned cooperative efforts to check
occupational disease,
A, L. Humphrey, president of the
Pittsburgh Employers association, has
| offered to the government many manu-
| featuring plants in the Pittsburgh dis
| trict representing an invested capital
of $500,000000 and employing 100000,
for wartime needs.
More than 10000 bituminous coal
miners in the acker-Williamson field
in Mingo county, West Virginia, have
been granted a wage increase of 10 per
cent. The increase is the third grant
ed in the district within four months.
Five hundred overall makers in Chi
cagO, on strike for two weeks, returned
to work under novel agreement. The
manufacturers granted a 10 per cent
increase in wages and back pay from
February l up to the strike.
Union bakers in Oshkosh, Wis, have
been granted an increase of 50 per
week in wages and one hour less night
work per week. The agreement also
affects bakers in Fond du Lac, the two
unions being affiliated.
A movement has been started In
England for the compulsory enlist
ment of lads from fourteen to eighteen
years of age for the essential occupa-
TONS especially farm work.
Several hundred young English
women, having been trained as carpen-
tiers, have been sent to France to build
huts for soldiers, thus releasing men
for the fighting line
The Ahdawgam Furniture company
Of Grand Rapids, Mich. has given EN-
ployees Il 10 per cent raise besides an
increase in the monthly bonus.
It will be found generally that the
| average wage per man per hour
throughout the United States will be
| close to % cents.
Charles VI. Schwab has launched a
S5,0OO,000 company to develop hun
| dreds of acres for homes for employees
of the steel mills,
Several of the most stately homes of
old England have been turned into
sleeping quarters for women making
| munitions.
Grantham, Eng, will employ women
to sweep the streets, paying them 1C
cents an hour and provide them with
uniforms.
A wage increase of approximately 10
| per cent for 10000 cotton-mill opera.
| tives was announced by mills in Lowell
| Mass,
The Archduchess Frederick of Aus
| triu invested nearly S2,500,000 in a
rsndlc-making factory near Budapest
The Spanish city of Seville, once the
most famous in the world for its silk
| is planning to revive the industry.
The right to vote in provinciaf and
municipal affairs has been granted to
| the women of Ontario, Canada.
In 1898 portable engineers at Boston
received SIS week o. 81 hours. They
now GET $3.50 for A hours.