The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-07
DEATH BENEFIT TO SADIERS
Family of Every illinois Miner Killed
In Battle Will Be Paid $500 BY
the Union.

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international body, will make the to,
tai $500.
The federal attorneys officS at Font
Smith, Ark, made public iecision
of the department of justice t.iat the
contract of the employees and tlM
Fort Smith and Western railroad pro
viding for a ten-hour day and over
time, which was made previous TO the
enactment of the Adamson law, was
invalid. The complaint was filed by
the employees, charging the company
with violation of the eight-hour law.
The decision orders the railroad com
pany to pay its employees according
to the Adamson act.
Social investigation shows that
more than 100000 women in the
United States are compelled to earn
their own living, that 80 per cent OF
widows in this country lack the COM
forts of home, and 80 per cent lack
the necessities of life; IS per cent of
men who die leave nothing. and 95 per
cent of the remainder leave almost
nothing. More than 100000 children
under sixteen years of age are earning
a living when they should be at school,
building up physique for later life.
Organized labor in Germany, mem-
bers of the British house of commons
were told, is represented in combine
ton of "a unions. which will make a
settlement of after-the-war problems
| easier for that country. In England
the workers are distributed over from
| LOO to 1900 different unions, which,
| it was commended, makes organized la
Dor unwieldy. A bill to facilitate the
amalgamation of the British trade
unions along the lines of the German
| system is now before parliament.
Refusal of the A. NJ. Byers company
of Youngstown, O.. operating the larg-
est puddle mill in the United States,
to recognize branch of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, recently organized BY
employees, resulted In closing the
mills. Approximately 500 mill workers
were affected, of whom about 30 per
cent are said to have affiliated them
selves with the union.
Industrial unrest due to war condir
tons has seriously affected Great Brit
ain and France The British govern
ment has assumed control of all coal
mines because production was decreas-
ing. The workers felt that they sl1puIa
have largss~~ slR+ss..ssa s4f "a zs4fsJa q
their discomfort resulted In absentee
ism until the government was forced
to step in.
Ten thousand lumber workers are
affected by the adoption of the day
light saving plan by lumber manu-
facturers of Memphis. While the day
light saving plan has not been gener-
ally adopted throughout the city, the
lumber manufacturers have acted on.
their own accord and moved their
clocks up one hour.
BY a referendum vote, 10000 work
ers on children's clothing in New York
have accepted the offer of the manu-
facturers Of 81 week increase In
wages as a war measure These WORK
ers, members Of the AmalgamatedI
Clothing Workers of America original
1y asked for an increase of So week.
The British government is cam
paigning to obtain 10000 mflkmaids-
The girls will be given free training
and be maintained during instruction
and terms of unemployment and will
be paid $3.50 a week, or the district
wage where it Is higher. E
Omaha (Neb) bod carriers and
building laborers are enforcing their
new wage scale of 37h cents an hour
for common laborers and 421s cents
an hour for mortar mixers, hod car
riers and scaffold builders.
Women of England have helped Id
the making Of every type of weapO9
of war, from heavy artillery to rifles
from huge shells to machine-gun bulb
lets and in construction of afrplanes
including their engines.
The number of women acting direct
ly as substitutes for men i'm the field,
office and workshop has passed the
million mark, according to figures
printed by the board of trade labor.
gazette. II
At present go women are employed
as drivers and 1898 MS conductors on
Glasgow (Scotland) street cars, while
40 are car cleaners, 1913 clerkseand
60 storekeepers and wOOdworkers. A
Women are working In the fields to
help relieve the labor shortage in the
farming districts in southern Illinois,.
eastern Missouri and Arkansas.
Connecticut's state senate has passed.
Il bill authorizing the public welfare
commission to make study of occh.
pational diseases and report to the
next legislature.
In England 1000 women are em-
ployed by the admiralty in the CEN
trail Office where no women were
working before the war.
One of the largest office buildings III
Detroit and one in Salt Lake City
has each replaced men elevator oper.
ators by women.
Many London (Eng.) school girls
will spend their summer holidays help
ing at the mills and sewing flour sacks
fer the army.