The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-12-22

was based on the SuperlntenueulS Ell
forts to induce employees to trade at
the company store, but the court finds
that plaintiff failed to establish case
which would support Judgment.
Wage increases of from 10 to 20 per
cent were recommended for about 1000
mates and pilots, deckhands, engineers,
oilers and firemen employed in New
York harbor in an award made by the
government arbitration committee ap-
pointed by agreement of the Mar.Ae
Workers utilization and the owners of
water craft transportation companies.
The award is not effective until rati-
fed by each side to the controversy,
which threatens to bring about a gen.
eral waterfront strike. AS each side
agreed, at the time of the proposed ar
bitration, to abide by the committees
report the decision settles the CUES
lions of wages and hours for some time
to come.
Samuel Gompers, president or the
American Federation of Labor, it is re-
ported. may accept the invitation of
British trades unionists to visit Eng
land. The invitation was extended in
Buffalo at the close of the convention
of the A. r. of L. and was brought by
John L. Fill and Arthur Hayday, fra
ternal delegates from the British Trade
Union congress. While the American
labor leader did not give definite an
swer, it is known that for some time
he has been eager to go to England and
make a study of labor conditions that
have been created by the war.
So that it may be known where it
stands as to men for keeping the war
wheels turning, the government prob
ably soon will undertake a nations
census of the labor supply. SUD =
rrGf'nsus would definitely iocAtS :,
which could be shifted from one skm
ton to another, and would provide
basis for supplying pressing needs hn
many vital industries.
The miners convention at Saginaw
Mich, adopted the new wage scale
providing an increase of 10 cents day
for miners and q $1.40 increase fol
other laborers. The penalty clause pro
vides that if the workers cause a sus
pension of work each miner must pa.
81 a day as long as the mine is closed
If the operators are at fault they mus
nav q cin,i1op Cl1m e..
Fifteen hundred men at the Trail
smelter, Victoria B. c., out on strike a
protest against the enforcement 0
the military service act. They refuses
to present themselves at tribunals. TIL
employees of the smelter, most 0
whom are aliens, at q meeting decide
not to subscribe to the victory loan an
q number of them made bOnfireS Of tn
loan literature.
J The New York street railway StriS
) in August and September, 1916, cause
a loss in patronage of 100,000,000 pas
sengers, equivalent to $5,000,000 |
/ money, according to compilation pre-
!, pared by DR.. A. F. Weber, chief Of tn
. bureau of statistics and accounts c
the public service commission.
. Telegraph operators and static
e division of the Lehigh Valley railroa
e have received advances in wages ran;
ing from 81 to $40 per month. The II
!, crease went into effect on Novembt
ooonrd;p0 20 on announcement ms 4
d by the company.
e The committee on resolutions of Il
G A. f. of L. convention favorably repot
l. ed a resolution submitted by Floren
e Ethcridge of the National Federatlt
of Federal Employees on woman ST.
J. frage and the convention unanimous
;. approved the committees report.
IS The government has awarded Sc
If 100000 war contract to the Standa
v. Steel Car company of Hammond, In
IS to run two years. Ten thousand adj
ar tional workmen will be employed
the order, it is said, and an 800-fo
n addition made to the plant.
70 Work on government contracts he
h. by the Morse Twist Drill and MACH
d. company, New Bedford, Mass, was V
,s tually at a standstill as a result of
n. strike of a majority of the 1900 e
~ ployees for Is per cent wage
crease and shorter hours.
o. Demand for so per cent advar
ha in wages was embodied in resolutiC
no passed at joint meeting at Tole,
re o., of post Office clerks, railroad m
"a. clerks, letter carriers and rural m
carriers.
*. Montgomeryshire (Wales) educat
ed committee has decided to give v
,rt bonus of f12 los. to teachers earn
ed E55 or under, and ELS to those ei
ed. ing over EOS.
on Port Glasgow (Scotland) sch
ICE board has agreed to allow all fulfil
red female teachers ESQ per annum VIII
Lch present salaries are less than t
. amount.