The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-07
Boys to Be Paid for Work, Under
New System in Pennsyl-
vania Town.
EXPECTED TO SOLVE PROBLEM
Plan, II Is Believed, viii Keep Pupils
From Leaving Studies-Labor
Shortage Feared in Ohio
News of the Workers.
World.

things educational will be inaugurated
at South Bethlehem, Pa. Briefly this
scheme is to pay the boys, who have
a bent for mechanics, apprentice
wages while they go to high school.
The real idea, however, is tc Nolve
the problem of why boys leave scfkSol
and go to work before high school is
reached and before they have acquired
a sufficient education. This problem
Superintendent Buck of the South
Bethlehem schools has solved, with
the aid of the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany and other local industrial con-
Germs. The all-alluring prospect of
earning money has been the main rea-
son for SO many boys going to work
before their high school education has
been completed. Under Bucks scheme
these lads in continuing at high school
Will be paid just the same as though
they had left school and gone to work,
but with the added feature of acquir-
Ing an advanced education at the same
time. The scheme calls for the boys
to spend part Of their time in the
workshop and part Of their time in the
classroom.
Federal immigration statistics point
very conclusively to u great shortage
of labor in Ohio and many other parts
of the country in the summer of 1917.
Reports from Kansas City and Indian
| in rffo 10 IN, az 49, u
ing operations will be retarded seri-
ously unless there is big influx of
| laborers to those cities. Secretary
Thomas Mugavin of the Ohio State
Building Trades council says that
Youngstown is willing to pay almost
any price for laborers both for the
steel mills and building trades.
A shipyard equal to any in the
United States" will be built on the
Delaware river Immediately below the
mouth of the Schuylkill river, accord
! ing to an announcement by the Fort
Miffiin Shipbuilding company, recent
| ly organized with q 4@apital of $10,000,-
Ysez46. I w 0rk ON Tie new yard viii DE-
1
100 acres of river front property hav-
ing been acquired as site.
Nearly 1900 unskilled laborers, rep
resenting more than 50 per cent of the
total rosters of the Moore and Scott
ship yards at Oakland, Cal. and the
Oakland plant of the Union Iron
works, went on strike which tied
up work on $12,000,000 worth of war
ships under construction.
Law as applied to labor movements
is to be studied by members of the
Women's Trade Union league. The
course of study will include the legal
phases Of strikes, boycotts and lock-
outs; rights of workers TO organize !;
classifcations Of injunctions and con-
spiracies.
After the hundreds of traction en-
ployees in Washington, D. c., voted to
strike and crews of StrikebreakerS had
arrived one of the companies recog-
nized the union and agreed to arbi-
trate.
Forty government employees of
SauIt Ste. Marie, Mich, have formed
q union to better the service. Thomas
Ross, immigration inspector, is presi-
dent. Mr.. Ross said 1--WE are Ameri-
cans first and unionists after"
More than 10000 puddlers and sheet
mill workers will receive wage in
creases rs a result Of the examination
of bar iron sale sheets of the Western
Bar Iron association.
In one motor plant are 81 full-blood-
ed Indians, each of whom is paid So
a day. One of them recently broke all
plant records for setting up car.
The journeyman tailors union has
determined to abolish the contract sys-
TEN from the tailoring industry in
San Francisco.
A 10 per cent wage Increase for 49,
600 shoe workers, effective May 1, was
announced by the Brockton, Mass,
manufacturers.
An eight-hour day for woman work
ers in stores, laundries and other es-
Establishments is proposed In Montana.
Increased wage to lumberjacks and
other woodworkers Is proving decid-
ed handicap to recruiting in the north
of Canada.
So short is the supply of threshing
hands in Yorkshire, England, that
boys of twelve are being employed.
Vancouver (B. CO. women have pc
titioned to be allowed to become MEM
bers of the municipal council.
Eight deaths daily was the average
toll of Industrial accidents in Pennsyl-
vania during 1916
Frisco Jitney Bus Operators union
has affiliated with the California State
| Federation Of Labor.
1t is proposed in Toronto, Can, to
establish pension-scheme fund for
civic employees.
A new church for munition workers
has been opened at Foleshill, Warwick
shire, England.
Boilermakers on Canadian govern
ment railroads have minimum rate
| Of 48 cents an hour.
France has a six o'clock closing law.