The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-03-31
LABOR VOTES FOR SUFFRAGE
English Conference Favors Votes for
Women-Asks for High Taxation
on Luxuries.

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Woman suffrage by an overwlf filming
vote. A proposal for adult sufrrA for
1 both men and women was included
among the recommendations the Icon.
ference made to- the British cabinet
and parliament. Other recommehda
lions were: A high taxation on Eux-
uries, direct taxation of land values,
naturalization of he banking SYSTEM
and an increased income tax.
A system of cooperative buying.
selling and profit gearing managed BY
city employees OF Greater New York
has been established to reduce the cost
of living. If the project proves a sue.
cess it will be offered to all the $1,000
municipal employees. Mayor Mitchell
and other city officials have approved
| the experiment. "a
Ninety thousand lives will be svyed
yearly and a money loss of billion
and half dollars prevented Ii plans
now completed for accident prevention
by representatives of medical colleges
industrial plants and the Pennsylvania
bureau Of labor and industry prove
successful.
FIR several years the organized
labor movemtrE of the city of Chicago
has provided fol all members of unions
and their families during tile winter
months, when uner pAoy1nent, sickness
and other mtsfortunes have befallen
| them.
The Bakers md Confectionery
Workers International union is grow
ing. The membership is now 22,255
an increase of 346 In sc days. Sick
and death benefits were paid out
amounting to $4,443.
Gov. Samuel w. Mccall of Massa-
chusetts has recommended the imme-
date adoption by that state Of two
forms Of social insurance-eOmpulso
health insurance and system of old
age pensions.
The governors of the North OF Scot
land College of Agriculture at Aber1
deem approved Of scheme for the
training In agriculture and horticul-
ture of discharged soldiers and sail
ors.
The 10000 union carpenters and
millmen of San Francisco and the Bay
counties are to demand a 20 per cent
advance from S., the present wage,
to Sc day of eight hours.
The Carnegie Steel company will
spend $10,000,000 upon its new mill
town near Youngstown, o. Three hun
bred and fifty workingmen's houses
will be erected as starter.
Brotherhood of Carpenters has in
the neighborhood of 800 trade move
ments planned for the coming spring.
averaging an increase In wages of 5
cents per hour.
A machine has been developed .foH
spreading fine r0ckdust on the paw
sageways of bituminous mines, to pre-
vent explosions of coal dust.
Increased wage to lumberjacks and
other woodworkers is proving a de-
cided handicap to recruiting In the
north of Canada.
Bricklayers and Masons' Information
al union in 1897 had but $4,000 mem
bers. The total membership is now in
excess of $1,000.
The leading industry in New York.
measured by the value of the manufac-
tured product, is the making of wom-
ems clothing.
A local branch OF the National Union
Of General Workers, an English or
ganization,, has been formed at Ath-
lone, Ireland. ..
Nine hundred and eleven local unions
are affiliated with the Bricklayers' In
ternational and the total membership
is 10000.
Shipowners of Newcastle, England.
have voted $4,000 toward the equip
ment of school for wireless teleg.
raphy.
Medical regulation and licensing Of
BARRIERS are proposed In bill intro
duced in the Pennsylvania legislature.
Included in the mobilization Of work
ing women in Germany Is also plan
for modifying educated women.
Armenia has copper mine that has
been operated without interruption
since prehistoric times.
The Carpenters International union
comprises $50 locals with combined
membership Of 1871 800.
Electrical workers at Salt Lake City
have secured increased pay and an
eight-hour day.
An eight-hour day and six-day week
may be granted all state employees in
California.
The secretary of the governor OF
Ohio Is a member Of the Typograph-
ical union.
Union printers at Youngstown. o.,
have secured an increase Of 90 cents
day.
Frisco Municipal Street Garments
union asks $40 day for platform
men.
Muskogee, Okla. has appointed a
J union man city auditor at $4,000 O
year.
Medford (Mass.) city employees
have been voted Saturday half holi-
day.
! Fifty thousand women are employed
, in the factories and stores Of Wiscon-
sin.
The total membership Of the Lace
Operotorc, International uniou IL 151