The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-15
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES UNITE.
Combination Of Government Workers
at Washington Already Has Had
Good Results in Many Ways.


0 per cent for all earning betweer
Sl,2oO and $500. The social, educa
tionaf and inspirational advantages tC
the members are inestimable, as also
. are the benefits to the government
service. At present union members In
many departments are gladly doing 30
per cent more than normal work
however, they are insisting, us part
OF their patriotic duty, flat these must
be, for the long rum" d system
which shall conserve the health of
employees, and In Ais way contribute
to the steady efficiency of government
departments. AS consequence of this
insistence, more workers are constant
ly being employed, and excessive
overtime" gradually will be eliminated
In such departments as, for example,
the bureau of engraving and printing,
Where a temporary abandonment Of
normal rules Is proving very great
strain on woman workers.
The Washington state council Of de-
tense adopted resolution calling up
on congress to establish a national
elght-hour day in the lumber Industry.
The resolution recited that the lumber
industry Of the state was tied up by
strikes of labor demanding an eight.
iNaour day and that operators had Of
Tered to the council "strong evidence
to prove that 1t would be impossible
for this state to go upon this basis
while other parts of the country, par
ticularly the Southern pine industry,
with which the lumber of this district
mas to compete, is working upon a
ten or eleven hour standard"
In an effort to bring about co-opera-
ton In Industrial sanitation and n.y.
giene between organized labor and the
division of Industrial hygiene of the
New York city department of health
and give the workers chance to assist
in a practical way in improving SAM
tary conditions in factories and work
shops, representatives of about thirty
eight labor unions affiliated with the
| Central Federated union met not long
ago and organized the Labor Sanitation
conference. This action was taken
following meeting held at Stuyvesant
high school, which was addressed by
the United States commissioner of la
Dor statistics.
Delegates to the sixty-third annual
convention of the International Typo
graphical union completed oil business
by holding a night session and ad-
journed. The convention voted to
take care of the union dues of mem
bers who Joined the National army,
the necessary fund to be raised by a
per capita tax of 10 cents month be-
ginning January / next. A resolution
to establish branch of the Union
rribterr tss-zre-.fss HIS sd e.
feated. A proposition ta set asfde y
fund of 100000 for "war purposes
also was voted down.
Girls are replacing boys In glass fac
tories at Bellaire. o. Since the inspec-
tor ordered boys under the legal age
out of the plants many glassworkers
are leaving here to get work in other
states where the supply of boys is not
curtailed In shops where it has been
possible to obtain girls they are max
ing good, they say. Glassworl1ers say
that boys ordered from factories by
state factory inspectors are working in
stores with longer hours Of service.
The strike begun by the Spanish
railroad employees became general,
when the masOns, printers, carpen-
tiers and other workmen quit work. AS
the men received their orders to lay
down their tools they went quietly
home. Some of the strikers declared
the general strike would last only "a
sympathy with the railroad men,
Shops were open as usual and the pop
ulation was Indifferent.
Twenty-six new shipways are to be
built by two large shipbuilding COM
panies on the Delaware river. Permits
for the construction of these ways
were granted by the commissioners of
navigation at their monthly meeting.
These two companies are the Traylor
Shipbullding corporation and the Ches-
ter Shipbuilding company of Chester.
-Four Of the new ways are to be built
: at Chester-12 at Bristol and 10 at
= Cornwells.
! The French government has given
orders that all employees Of the state
/. railroads will receive increases In sal
. aries Of at least $S4 annually. The
. ruling takes effect as from June /. 1t
t was decided upon after the receipt Of
Q a report from Georges Desplas, min
:. lister of public works, that conditions
: of railroad workers must be anchor
Y ated Immediately by increased pay tc
g meet the high cost of living.
The convention of the International
, Typographical union defeated pro.
= posal to meet annually in Indianapo.
: lis with the exception Of every tenth
: year when the convention would be
( held at Colorado Springs Scranton.
g Pa was the only city placed before
Y the convention for next years conven.
e ton. Albany, N. Y, has no opposition
for the 1919 convention.
/ Miss jeanette Rankin, congresswonl-
lo1c,o froDo Montana danniIpapd