The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-03-03
ARE DENIED ElGnT-HtsuR DAY
Workers in the Waist and Shirt lndus,
try" New York, However. Get
Wage Increase.

| hAcd the present. 43-DNuF
week. Wage increases ranging from
to 10 per cent were granted in ali
branches of the trade, and the higher
standards of working condlnuns are
provided.
| between four hundred and five hum
dred employees of the United States
Shlpbuilding company at Norwalk,
| Conn., struck for an eight-hour day.
carpenters, blacksmiths' ironworkers,
electricians, steamfitters, painters, aud
the helpers in these departments went
out. The company notified the men re-
Gently that beginning February /, eight
ana half hours would be,a days work
with pay and half for overtime. The
men objected to the extra half-hour.
The Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing company announced that
the company had decided to build a
plant, to cost from $5,OOO,OO0 to $1,000
oo0 at Essington, Pa, near Phlladel-
phia, and that work would be started
as soon as construction plans could
be prepared. The site has frontage
on Delaware bay of 1900 feet.
Figures compiled by the department
OF agriculture for 1915 show an in
crease in farm wages in Pennsylvania.
me average per week, with board, was
$3.50, some counties reporting as high
as 1873. The monthly average was
$zfo0. Harvest hands received an
average of $1.S9 per day, the rate be-
ing as high as $3.50 in some counties
There seems to be no limit to the
class of work women can do. At first
IL seemed strange in England to see
girl conductors on the buses, girl win
dow cleaners, van drivers, and messen-
gers. But as the war progressed the
Held broadened, and now even In
building, mining and quarrying scores
of women are employed.
Representatives Of the Women's Ma
tional Trade Union league who attend
ed the American Federation of Labor
convention in Baltimore recently have
started a campaign in Canada and
will endeavor to establish branches
in every town and city in the Do
| minion.
Billings (Mont.) BARRIERS union
has raised wages from $18 to $25 a
week and reduced the working day
from ten to nine hours. After 30 days
wages will be increased to $2660, and
after another 80 days this rate win be
raised to $2S.
The combined farmers organizations
of all Canada, representing 10000 affil-
lated farmers known. as the Council of
Agriculture, adopted s5|!s M
| platform for the purpose Of bringttg
about economic, political and social RE-
forms.
A number of Irish girls now undef,
going training at London munitidn
factory in the work of shell inspecting,
when competent, are to become In
structresses in a new factory nearing
completion in Ireland
The first year and half of the
Wyoming compensation law shows q
surplus of over 100000. The ex-
pense of enforcing the law was LA
per cent, against 45 per cent, cost to
private companies.
Owing to the steady emigration to
Cuba of laborers who seek work for
higher wages on Cuban estates, con-
scription for the Jamaica contin-
gent of the overseas forces is being
advocated.
Considerable criticism of the Cana
dian immigration service is being
made owing to the large number Of
Americans employed In Sarnia NUM-
ton concerns, while local men are UNI
employed.
Through the profit-sharing plan Of
the International Harvester companies
1854 employees in a single year have
embraced the opportunity thus given
to invest with safety and to save with
regularity.
The British board of agriculture is
organizing schemes to increase the
home grown food supplies. 1t is un-
derstood that 10000 German prison
ers are available to work the land.
Tests in Italy of blowing with elec-
trio motors have demonstrated that ii
costs about half as much as If
horses had been used and about two
thirds as much as steam blowing.
On an average 215 Industrial work.
ers were killed every month as re-
suit Of industrial accidents in Pennsyl-
vania in 1916 and 1912 others were
injured.
Compulsory health insurance in Nor,
way embraces. employed wage earners
in public and private service fifteen
years of age and over
Three woman doctors are now EN-
ployed In the London tEngland) hos
pital. This is new departure
Minnesota mines employ $4,000 per.
sons and pay in wages $12,00000C
yearly.
Over 10000 women are employed
in the British arsenals and dock-
yards.
Carpenters at Ell Paso, Tex, win
| ask for increased pay March l.
: Augusta (Ga.) street car men have
received increased pay.
Winnipeg (Can.) labor unions have
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