The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-27
NOTES aF LABOR WORLD

NS ~ 'T k~HDOn VNOnLD
BY a vote mat lacked one of being
unanimous, and that one not dele.
gate, from Reading, Pa, the conven.
ton Of the International Molders'
Union of North America voiced an,
prevail of the war policies of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labol, and adopted tho
adverse report of the committee on
resolutions on the resolution of censuro
proposed by the Reading (Pa.) local.
Three hundred miners returned to
work at the Blackburn mines at Peters,
burg, Ind, when district officials up.
held the coal mine company and or.
dered the men back to work. The mine
drivers quit and asked for a removal
of one of their number who had been
hired as boss driver. The company re,
fused to discharge the boss driver.
"Womanalls" are the latest thing
in women's working apparel. They
are nothing more than modified over
alls, exactly like those worn by work.
men. They have been adopted by the
General Electric company for a force
of girls working on lathes drilling ma.
chimes and punch drills.
Girls are taking the places Of por.
ters, chefs and walters on trains OPP
Grating on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
between Wheeling and Cleveland. 1t
is not a question of wages. The girls
get as much as the men. 'They give
better satisfaction said General Pas
Sehg6r EsSnt 3ttcsEEs0Io eitttrs. y .-7-7~sl n
ESurteen labor business agents, con-
victed in the Chicago criminal COURT
two years ago of conspiracy to CONDUCT
boycotts, destroy property and extort
| money must go to the penitentiary or
pay fines, according to decision of
| the appellate, court affirming the crimi
inal court conviction lH
The United States Steel corporation
has announced 10 per cent advance
in the wage of it's workers. This is the
| fourth increase granted the corpora
| tons employees since the beginning
of the war in Europe, and Will bring
the total advance in that time up to
45 per cent. WI
Machfnists. employed by the govern
ment at virtually every navy yard and
arsenal have presented revised de-
| mands for further increase in wages
over the so cents a day demanded last
October, The proposed new increases
| run up to ST. a day.
The Canadian Press, news-gather-
| ing agency, has signed a union shop
agreement which includes its coast-to-
coast jurisdiction. The new schedule
establishes the highest average wage
paid by any press association in North
| America. @ t g@
The wages in eastern Siberia are SO
cents a day, while those in western
Siberia often are as low as 10 cents a
day. The men in the mines of eastern
Siberia work morning, noon and night
recognizing neither Sunday nor feast
day.
The tenants union of Pittsburgh
announced that it had asked the CO.
operation of the Central Federated
union and the American Federation OF
Labor in campaign for the erection
of municipal tenements.
In bulletin issued by the federal
bureau of labor statistics the Interna-
tional Typographical union is quoted
as reducing deaths, due to tuberculo
sis, from 31,2 per cent in 1900 to 1871
per cent in 1915. s
The biggest strike in the history Of
the Australian commonwealth has
been settled. 1t began August 2 anC
involved railways, docks, coal mines
and other industries, in addition to the
seamen.
The Pan-American Federation of La
Dor conference committee is uniting
the organized workers of North Amer
lea and South America.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad com
pany employs 1000 women, not includ
ing stenographers, clerks, charwomen
car cleaners, etc.
The most of Japan's pearl diver
are women, who begin to learn th'
trade at the age Of thirteen or four
teen.
Canadian immigration officials hav'
succeeded in their fight to keep !. W
w. agitators south Of the internationa
border.
Chicago Building Laborers' uniol
I has more paid-up members than Their
are paid-up members Of the /. w. w
: throughout the country.
II San Francisco restaurant manager
have adopted a new wage scale whicl
raises rates from 10 to 40 per cent, an
| for chefs as high as 100 per cent,