The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-28
COAL MINERS GET INCREASE
New Wage Scale In Effect in Cabin
Greek District-Women Work
ing In Munition Factories.

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the old agreement has gone into effect.
The operators in the agreement
reached at Charleston, w. Va, refused
TO grant the mems demands for O
closed shop, but agreed that no objec-
| tim would be made to the men joining
the United Mine Workers Of America.
For the first time In its history
women have just been hired to rush
munition work at point in New York
state. Women in overalls are replacing
men in doing light mechanical duties
to release the men for heavier work.
President Joseph Powell of the Fore
River Shipbuilding corporation an
1ounced at patriotic meeting of en-
! ~ ayees, at Quincy, Mass, that a gen.
erai increase of wages at the plant
was b@tag arranged. He said the COM
pany G rs breaking all records in work
accomplished in it's efforts to hurry
construction ofs United States naval
vessels.
McCurtain, the misio1-dollar coke
GATES erected IL years ago at Fort
Smith, Ark, which never was operat-
ed, has been leased by an Oklahoma
corporation. Abnormal demand for
coke, due to the war, is responsible
for a revival of the industry. The
plant has 200 ovens.
Union labor at Philadelphia has
dropped it's opposition to nonunion
men and has appealed to them to help
the government mobilize all available
mechanics for work at the arsenals
and navy yards.
The cost of food in Canada has gone
up about rs per cent since the war
began, according to figures compiled
by the department of labor. 1t has
risen about 81 per cent in Great Brit
ain.
Pittsburgh (Pa) Electrotypers'
union has secured three-year con-
tract Wages are increased 81 week
Immediately and totalsof So week
during the life of the agreement.
The military preparedness bill passed
at Albany, N. Y, Is designed to bring
100000 working boys of the ages Of
sixteen to eighteen under the compul-
sorry military training act.
Proprietors of mills In South Caro-
lima are spending $1,000,000 a year In
the improvement of living and work,
ing conditions. South Carolina has q
well-enforced child-labor law.
There has been an increase Of II
per cent for Canadian press telegraph
ers and about z per cent for CONNER
cial telegraphers employed by the CO
ls~aNan Pacifc, .SSesssa,a~ AZ So.
A 10 per cent advance in wages WIZ
be paid miners in the Tuscarawas
district, it was announced, following
a meeting of the Tuscarawas operators
at Columbus, o.
Additional facilities for giving re-
turned soldiers technical training to
fit them for new occupations in civil
life have been provided in Montreal,
Canada.
The judiciary committee of the Con-
necticut general assembly favors bill
that will end the practice Of import
ing armed guards during strike times.
A scheme has been devised in Man
chester, England, to indicate by a
shop window sign businesses which
are being carried on by soldiers wives.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has announced that practically
all employees will be paid on basis
of eight hours for days work.
Reports recently made in England
on the manufacture of war supplies
stated that more and better work was
obtained on eight-hour shifts.
At the recent municipal election at
Hamilton, Canada, three representa-
tives of organized labor We're elected
to the city council.
Packers in Winnipeg, Canada, are
offering bonuses and stock in COM
panies to keep their employees from
organizing.
Walthamstow (England) council has
decided to give preferential employ
ment to discharged soldiers on the
tramways.
The Massachusetts, state board of la
Dor and industries has ruled that wom-
an coremakers may not lift more than
% pounds.
The Chicago & Alton has announced
that all section men on the system
will receive an increase of Is cents a
day.
About 80 per cent of journeymen
BARRIERS are victims of pulmonary tn-
berculosis.
China has only one physician trained
along modern lines for each 100000 in
habitants.
The first strike of American work
ers (sailors) occurred in 1902 in New
York city.
Painters of Dundee, Scotland, have
gone on strike for more pay and short
er hours.
More than IL per cent Of New York
working women are married.
| Eldorado (Kan.) painters have se-
cured an eight-hour day.
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