The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-03
INCREASE WAGES,
DROPBONUs PLAN
Two Large Texas Corporations
Announce Changes in Scheme
of Remuneration.
INVOLVES ABOUT 1000 MEN
All Glasses of Employees Interested
Longshoremen's Strike at New
York Ends-General News of
interest to the Worker.

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Announcement was made at Hous
ton, Tex, by the Gulf Production com
pany and the Gulf Pipe Line company
of an increase in wages, approximately
20 per cent, to all field employees. The
increase affects about 1900 men. The
bonus plan is to, be discontinued with
the instituting of the new wage in.
crease plan. Men who formerly re.
ceived So day will now be paid $3.50
those who were paid 500 month will
get 81 a day under the new plan, and
drillers will be given $3.50 per day
Other employees in the field will re-
ceive a like substantial increase.
P. J. O'Connor, president of the In
ternational Longshoremen's associa-
ton, who went to settle strike of
longshoremen on the piers of the Clyde
and Mallory's Steamship lines, an
nounced that "all differences affecting
longshoremen along the entire Atlantic
coast particularly at Newport News,
had been amicably settled" Mr.. O'Con-
nor said the wal;out was the result of
q misunderstanding.
Five members of the strike commit
tee which directed the recent general
strike in Spain have been sentenced to
solitary confinement for life by court
martial. Three others were given eight
years in prison and two for two years
and a half. Two woman members of
the committee were acquitted.
Premier w. A. Holmes of New South
Wales, Australia, is at San Francisco
to fill several speaking engagements.
Owing to his prominence in the labor
movement in Australia, local labor Or
CARNATIONS have been asked by Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor to take part in
his reception. =E
Nearly 800 telephone girls who re-
Gently organized a union in Seattle,
Wash, voted almost unanimously to go
ON strike October 10 if their demands
for increased wages and improved
working conditions are not granted.
The principle that labor unions have
1.-THE right to circulate letters or pub
#ications requesting that their mem
&bers refuse to assist in the construc-
Iet1Un or pafTffnngs IN which ffonunlor
made materials are used when such
circulation is not done maliciously
but solely for the benefit Of the unions
members, was upheld by the New York
court of appeals.
Philadelphia Upholsterers' union ha!
prepared a new agreement which in
cludes wage increase of so cents for {
day of eight hours, creation Of arbitra
ton machinery and double time fol
Sundays and holidays.
Resolutions indorsing Samuel Com
pers and the American Federation OF
Labor for their support of President
Wilson were adopted at the biennia
convention of the Coopers' Information
al union at Baltimore.
The Massachusetts minimum wag'
commission recommended minimum
wage of 50 a week for experienced
women employees in mems clothing
factories in that state.
The thirty-second annual meeting O
the City of Dublin Nursing Institution
was held recently, when efforts wer'
made to standardize the status O.
nurses.
Lord Leverhulme, head of the larges
soap manufacturing concern in Eng
land and one of the largest employ
ers of labor has declared he favor
u six-hour day after the war.
Fifteen thousand textile workers IL
Passaic, N. j., have been granted TIL
third wage increase since Decembe
last. 1t amounts to about $1,0OO,OOt
year.
Denver (Colo.) Typographical uniol
has secured a new job scale which
carries with it an advance Of $3.50 pc
week and continues for three years
Of the 100000 graduate nurses IL
this country there are only 5000 il
the public health nursing field. TIL,
others are engaged in private service
Canada's great farmers organiza
ton, the United Grain Growers, Lin
tied, will eventually enter both tn
milling and meat-packing industries.
The additional allowance of tw'
shillings and sixpence to British old
age pensioners will cost between fiv
and six million pounds year.
Butcher shops, meat merchants ant
fish stores in Victoria, British Column
bia, are exempt from the provisions 0
the weekly half-holiday act.
Many of the Canadian munitio
workers who have been laid off ar
being placed on farms by the govern
ment employment bureau.
A 10 per cent wage increase for 20
600 cotton mill operatives. effective DC
tober Is, was announced by seve
Lowell, Mass, mills.
Wichita Falls (Kan.) Broommakers
union has signed up scale with tn
employers which provides for an In
crease of - per cent.
No experienced woman can now b
employed in any mercantile establish
ment in California at salary less thai
$40 week.
The effect of the check on the expor
tation of timber from ireland has beef