The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-09
Thousands Of Workers Get an
Advance Amounting to
is Per Cent.
HALF-HoLlDAYS ARE GRANTED
Fifteen Thousand Employees OF
Brockton Shoe Factories Given
Saturday Afternoons and In
crease in Pay.


ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
have been granted. The puddle rate
has been raised from $11.30 TO $11.SO
a ton. Bar-iron finishers receive
per cent advance, sheet workers 10
per cent advance and tin-plate work
ers rs per cent raise. The puddle
rate is the highest ever paid. Thou
sands of amalgamated association
members are benefited, while wages
of many thousands Of nonunion work
men are adjusted by the scale.
Saturday half-holidays for the 10
600 shoe workers Of Brockton, Mass,
together with 10 per cent increase
in wages were voluntarily granted by
the shoe manufacturers. Manufacture
ers of the Old Colony district, employ
ing about $4,000 persons, are follow
ing the example of the Brockton
firms.
Several thousand women are now
being carefully trained for farm work
in England. Among other things they
are taught to milk upon dummy cows.
These cows are square wooden bodies
with wooden legs and hide udder
filed with water.
Richmond (Va.) Electrical Workers
union has reached an agreement with
contractors. The gains include an
eight-hour day, a 50-cent minimum
wage rate, time and one-half for over
time and double time for Sundays and
holidays.
The wastage from the average
American family table of persons en-
joying a salary of 500 monthly up
ward would provide sustenance for a
French or Belgian family of the same
number of persons, according to sta
tiStics.
For the first time in its history
women have just been hired to rush
munition work at a point in New York
state. Women in overalls are replac'
ing men in doing light mechanical
duties to release the men for heavier
work.
The creation of state constabu
larry, as recommended by the Calffm
MIA state council of defense, will be
opposed by the California State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor representing all the
organized wage earners of California
In Mexico strikes are declared lega
when they have for their object the
equalizing of differences between the
different factors of production, har
Iuonizing the rights of the worker
with those of capital.
In addition to improved conditions
Toronto brewery employees receive al
increase in wages of from $l.50 to $;
per week. The present scale of wages
is SIG and $25 a week.
Demanding recognition of the union
n 44-hOur week and wage increases
ranging from 2h to cents an hour
100 sheet metal workers in ten shops
struck at Toledo, O.
London (Canada) street railways
offer to recognize the recently organ
iLtu uulOit anu w grant d hulAb'A Va
concessions was accepted.
The Chilean government will senC
an agent to study the papermaktng in
dustry and processes in the United
States and Canada.
\ % per cent increase has beer
granted the thousands of women en-
gagged in the Nottingham England,
lace industry.
A Michigan contractor is the inventor
of a mOtor-driven riddle which quickly
separates gravel or sand into six differ
ent sizes.
Employees of the electric line be
tween Toronto and Guelph Canada
hGve received an increase of So
week.
An electrical process is being trie,
In Russia for the manufacture of golf
leaf, heretofore made only by hand
In the future child labor permits il
Arkansas will be amended to conform
with federal permits.
At present 10000 Canadians are er
gagged in numbering operations in tn
British Isles.
Woman farmers and luborers in tn
United States number million an
half.
Portsmouth. Eng, has the larges
! automatic telephone exchange in tn
world.
J One machine has capacity of Gu
ting thousand celluloid combs
day.
. South Carolina has 1000 childre
/ under sixteen employed in textil
d mills.
Mlwaukee's public employment bl
reau found work for 25,945 last yea
4 In normal times the French eat 81
? pounds Of bread person annually.
r A woman's trade union label leagU
|. has been formed at Richmond, Va.
Women are replacing the men In Il
r London power supply plants.
y A new political labor party has bee
o formed at Toronto, Canada,
K Painters ut Beaumont, Tex, demar
So for an eight-hour day.
Women are being taught to run trc
: ley ears in Topeka, Kan,
| Toronto (Canada) cement worke
, ask A. cents m hour