The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-19
ElGHT-HOUR DAY IN ALASKA
Law Makes System Universal, Stlph
iating That No Calling Is to pc
Excepted From Provisions.

VI tii0 ASSiSiutuic. IL ~ SpeCiActtt ~
stipulated In the bill that no calling Is
to be excepted.
Eighteen labor controversies were
taken up by the federal secretary Of Ia
Dor in the month preceding March Is.
and one, strike Of 1900 polishers
In the plant of the Remington Arms
company at Bridgeport, Conn.,. was set
tied. In the same period two other
controversies, one strike of shirt
makers in Philadelphia and the other
dispute of maintenance of way men
on the Illinois Central railroad, which
were pending from the previous month,
also were settled.
Five thousand names OF men who
haye worked at shipbuilding III Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan Were
forwarded to Washington by DIR. P.SI4
Prentis, in charge of the federal free
employment bureau In the district
comprising the states named. The
names were collected as a means OF
forwarding the governments plans for
building wooden ships.
Washington Photo Engravers' union
has secured two-year contract with
employers, Until July /, next year.
rates will be $26 week, and $27 from
then until January /, 1919. The 49,
hour week is agreed to, with time-and-
one-half for first four hours, double
time for second four hours and triple
time for third four hours of overtime.
Discouraged because of the uphold
ing of an anti-picketing injunction
against them, and the action of the
courts in sentencing number Of them
to jail for violations of it, members OF
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers union called off their strike
in Chicago.
AS the result of a referendum vote
the National Federation of Post Office
Clerks and the Brotherhood of Railway
Postal Clerks will amalgamate. The
new organization will be known as the
National Federation of Postal EN-
ployees.
Fires were lighted at the Yorkville
(O) plant of the Wheeling Steel and
Iron company, following the ending OF
two weeks strike. Company officials
agreed to the scale presented by the
men. The plant employs nearly LOCO
men.
Migrants in Ohio Will be hunted
down by officials and put to work on
farms, according to Governor Cox
There are 10000 men, he said, who will
not work unless compelle' The state
will supply the compulsion.
The United States navy departy u
is engaging nurses for coast n -
work and also women for clerica, 7 { U I
tary work. The wages of the =. = !,
will be $50 per month, while-.ss : =. -. I
an clerks will draw $33.
The number of employees in the
building trades in Great Britain has
decreased since the war from $50, 0Ol
to 100000. This presumably indica5 e:
a contribution of 100000 men to the
army.
Officers of the Order of Railway Con
duct0rs announce that they have com
pleted details for the pension plar
agreed to at the last convention. Thu
plan is optional with members.
In France the Ribot law, and subse
quent laws, has enabled workmen, witt
the aid of the state, to purchase com
Portable homes by annuities in from
five to twenty-five years.
The executive board of the Brother
hoods Of Railway carmen decided t,
purchase 100000 worth of the pro
posed federal war bonds as mani
festation of loyalty. MI
Governor Cox of Ohio has signed
bill limiting the hours of woman work
ers to 50 in one week. Seats for womel
are required to be supplied whereye
possible.
Woman letter carriers will soon b
delivering mail in Paris. This methO
will be an experiment and preference
will be given to wives of soldiers.
During last November the fedora
bureau of immigration found work TO
1892 unemployed persons; durin
October, for 1904.
The Massachusetts state senat
| killed the bill to provide one day OF 1
seven for hotel and restaurant en-
! ployees.
The corporation of Glasgow, SEQ
land, has started the erection of 20 q
30 tenement buildings for working
men.
7 A 10 per cent wage increase and Sa
J urday half-holiday win benefit 1900
Brockton (Mass.) shoe workers May
? The Mexican constitution recognize
, the equal right Of the employee and {
the employer to strike or lock out
8 Domestic servants Of Edlnburgl
4 Scotland, have already contribute
$4,000 TO various war funds.
e One-haR Of all the girls between si'
D teen and twenty years of age In Ne
York state work for wages.
r In England young women and inva
e ided soldiers are being taught far
work at wages Of OBS.
: Manchester (Eng) Co-operati,
2 Wholesale society has 2,535,972 mer
bers
n New York state has more workir
women than any other state In u