The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-17
SEEK LARGE SUMS FROM CITY
Street Railway Company Starts Suit
at EuffaIo for Damages Resulting
From Strike of Its Employees.

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the city of Buffalo and Uric county on
damages arising from the strike of
railway employees three years ago. II
is the first civil action of its kind ever
tried in New York state 1t is expect
ed chat should the result be favorable
for ,tss plaintiff company, similar ac-s
tons Will follow in Rochester. Sche-
| nectady and sother communities,
where differences between street car
companies and their employees have
! led to walk-outs.
The aims and objects Of a new
movement among the Japanese wage
earners of San Francisco and vicinity,
as outlined by it's projectors are: To
eliminate the unfair competition OF
japanese wage-earners by seeking to
establish the same wages, hours of la
Dor and conditions that are maintained
by the organized white wage-earners,
and to raise the standard of living
among the Japanese wage-earners in
this country.
President Samuel Gompers was in
| Structed at the A. r. of l.. convention
held in Baltimore, to visit Canada so
that he might be better informed on
union matters during the war. 1t Is
expected that he will time his visit
! so that he may be in Ottawa during
the next meeting of the trades con-
gress of Canada.
| Skirts are worn abroad for the most
part only in those occupations which
bring women in touch with the public.
In most of the factories and shops the
breweries and the railway yards,
! jumpers and regulation oyeralls are
the approved costume.
! Fifty thousand dollars of the 1915
profits in. w. Aver & Son, advertise
ing agents, were distributed among
employees recently. Every employee
with the firm more than year, even
to the office boy, participated in the
profit-sharing.
There is movement on foot to or.
| ganize a woman's auxiliary of the
United Mine Workers Of America, and
quite a number of influential women
in the anthracite field are said to
! be interested in furthering the pro-
ject.
A remarkable increase in member
ship of the sailors unions on the At
lantic coast Is reported. The total
membership of the eastern locals. for
the first time now exceeds that of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific.
A well-defned movement is under
way to induce congress to change the
national holiday of labor to Saturday
instead of Monday. The reason for
this move is to prevent the loss of the
day.
Reports from Ottawa indicate an in
tention to fill all positions INF Canada,
such as recruiting officers, heads Of
military hospitals, commission COM
manders, ETC., with returned officers.
The governors of the North of Scot
! land College of Agriculture at Aber-
deem, approved of a scheme for the
training in agriculture and horticulture
of discharged soldiers and sailors.
The tramways committee of Glasgow
(Scotland) corporation has adopted a
motion that all women in the tram
ways department should be paid the
same scale of wages as men.
Newcastle (Australia) Labor coun-
Gil has requested the Sydney body to
convene labor congress looking to
the adoption of some means to prevent
all future strikes.
A total of $2,7SS01965 has been
spent in relief work among It's sick
and unfortunate members by the In
ternatonal Molders' union during the
last 20 years.
Prior to the formation of the union
the highest paid theater musician In
Philadelphia received $40 a week.
Today the average salary is $27 a
week.
Dundee (Scotland) town council has
agreed to increase the wages of con-
stables, sergeants and detective Off
GERS, but not those of higher-paid off,
. GERS.
Earl Henry, chief of the department
; of mines of West Virginia announced
that 375 miners had been killed in the
mines of the state during 1916
1t Is reported as the result of a sur
: vey that only $4,000 of Baltimore's
t 10000 wage-earning women are pro.
tected by the ten-hour law.
= Compulsory service for women is I'M
: der discussion in England. 1t would
apply to munition and clerical work
for the government.
The state supreme court has ruled
/ that the Connecticut workmen's com.
: pensatiOn law does not include occupa-
tiOnal ills.
| In the future the American Fedora
| ton of Labor will issue a yearbook
containing matters of interest to labor.
= 1t Is estimated that labor disturb.
{ ances directly cause Il loss Of $1,000.
100000 year to the United States.
Coal miners in Georgia have re,
, ceived a 10 per cent increase In pay.
Many woman surgeons are connect,
l ed with the British army.
. Savannah, Ga, has $50 organized me-
gro longshoremen.
: Recausp of the increasing nrice of