The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-07
NO MEN FOR VACANT PLACES
New York Department Of Labor Re
ports Big Excess Of Jobs over 40
plicants In Past Year.

A bulletin issued by the state
partment of labor says that
March j, 1916, to the end of j
airy, 1917, there was a total of ID
places awaiting. workers who
not be supplied. There was an al
cess OF applications for work, as cor
pared with the number Of Jobs II
fered up to and including Februar,
1916, the statement reads. "Since Tie
opening Of the spring quarter In 1876
there have been more jobs offered tim
workers registered. This excess WIS
4'loo in the spring quarter of 1876
o'ooo In the summer quarter and 600
IN the autumn quarter. The demhd
Tor women factory workers, which vas
noticeable In December, 1915, was e,An
more pronounced 4. 10 quarry, 1917, III 4
nestle and personal service ledyA
calls for help and in positions fill
Factory and mercantile work was, III
January, 1917, second in calls for hefs
and third in po.duons f1lled,"
In an effort to prevent the empty
ment of women the male conductors
and motormen Of the. municipal street
cars of Rome, Italy, recently went on
strike. 1t has also been stated that he
strikers hoped by the elimination of
the women to insure their own free
dom from military service. Previous I'd
striking, the secretary OF Tho Roman.
section of the socialist party called
on the president of the street car M.
TEN and demanded that the school for
woman conductors and motormen he
discontinued The demand was re.
fused, the strike was called, but put
down within day by the military au-
thorities.
The New York branch of.the Internas
tional Workers Defense League of SsiY
Francisco announced a nation-wids
campaign to save the labor men indict-
ed and convicted for completely In caus.
ing the bomb explosion In the San
Francisco preparedness parade. w
Bourke Cochran, who has appeared as
the champion Of the cause of the la
Dor men, was the chief speaker III q
series of mass meetings. The mass
meetings are expected to stimulate the
raising Of defense fund.
| More than $4,000 children less than
fourteen years of age are engaged in
gainful occupations, according to n re-
| port of the Missouri children's code
| commission. The average Missouri
county does little beyond public
school system for the welfare Of chill
dren. Many of the districfs az eI-
crowded and even in the largfN
| children, because of lack of faeiTs s
go to school only half a day. Sic
other districts have too few pupils, ths
commission asserts.
The untitled orders of the
States Steel corporation, NehIN
fvisaEs, "a WINS, 's,t essrrlE 4 4 Il
vious records. The figures showed an
increase of 102,643 tons over the re,
port for January 81 The previous
high record was that for December 81,
| 1915, when the untitled orders stood at
1851, 2S6 tons.
Another large shipping contract has
been obtained by the Bethlehem Steel
company, it is learned, for cargo-carl
rying vessels of $500 tons and over!
involving an expenditure of $13,600k
600. 1t is understood they are to BIZ
built for the Cunard Steamship com
pany. Construction of these ships will
require about $1,000 tons of steel, 1t Is
estimated.
Miners of the coal region embraced
in District q, United Mine Workers
of America, with the exception sof
those on Cabin Creek and Little Coal
River, demand an increase of 10 pen
| cent and an eight-hOur day in their
| scale next year. "A
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mint
ing company, the largest employer OF
labor in the Occur D'Alene region, an
nounced that the bonus paid workmen
would be increased Is cents a day.
making total bonus of $1.25 day. 4
The eiSht-hour day for policemen
has gone into effect at Sheridan, WyO,
Chief Robertson will put In II hours
day distributing the time, so that all
the men will come under his personal
supervision as much as possible.
| There were in January, 1915, 800
British labor exchanges controlled by
divisional officers or clearing houses
| and co-ordinated with a central clear
ing house in London, the entire cost
being borne by the government.
The toll Of the mines last year
amounted to 1859 fatal accidents, and
1906 deaths. This was an increase of
80 accidents and eight deaths over
1915.
The International Association for
Labor Legislation, organized in 1900,
while not an official organization. is
subsidized by II different governments.
Plumbers are among the highest
paid of workmen, the average wage
throughout the country for a day of
eight hours being more than 80.
The International Federation OF
Trade Unions claims an affiliated mem
bership of approximately 100000.
Mine hundred and eleven local