The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-12-15

dWaHd brluge company, contractors,
from "disrupting union conditions by
discriminating against union men and
working under the open-shop basis"
and Is no indication of disloyalty to
the government.
The fuel administrations conserva-
tion division Is Analysing the sugges-
tons for conservation Of fuel, which
are coming from all parts of the coun-
try. 1t seeks to discover not only
wastage of fuel, but also those nones-
sential consumptions of coal in which
limitation is most available and will
produce the quickest results. Many
activities which involve large consump-
ton of fuel will according to fuel ad-
ministration officials, be found suscep-
tible of changes which will effect con-
siderable savings Of coal. Campaigns
for the saving Of coal in domestic
heating, lighting and cooking as well
as in the large industrial establish
ments are well under way. Confidence
IS expressed that the saving of an
enormous amount of coal will be eff
fected.
More than 5000 skilled workmen are
given Increases averaging about 20 per
cent in the new wage scale for the
1917-1919 blast which was sent out
to the members of the National Asso-
citation of Window Glass Manufacture
ers, by the secretary-treasurer, J. r.
Johnston Of this city. The settlement
was made in meeting at Cleveland
and the scale goes into effect Decem-
Der s. The announcement as to the
increases follows: "The changes in
wages are Is per cent advance on sin
gle-strength B quality; 25.10 per cent
on single-strength A quality, and 25.5
per cent on doublestrength A quality.
This advance is based on the regular
scale at the commencement Of the last
blast"
J. Philip Bird of New York, general
manager of the National Manufacture
ers' association, declared in an address
before the war convention of Nebraska
business men that if labor will not
live up to the agreement made and
signed OF Washington that the status
Suo shall be maintalned In the contest
between capital and labor during the
time the nation Is at war, 1t must be
made to do so, even If necessary to
invoke to that end the whole power of
the army and navy. 'Has the manu-
facturer been delinquent" he asked.
"No. Has capital? The money sub
scribed for liberty bonds and war ac-
tivities is the answer. The men who
work with their hands must be US 10y
al"
Wages were advanced and hours per
day and days per month were reduced
by the board Of arbitration, which re-
ported on the demands made by teleg-
raphers of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railway system. The road
will have to spend $4,000 additional
q month for wages. The men were
awarded hours CT eight to ten a day,
q 2G-day month, instead of the present
80 days, an overtime rate Of compensa-
ton for Sunday work and weeks
holiday each year. They had asked IS
cents for the first hour and 60 cents
for succeeding hours for Sunday work,
and were awarded 60 and 80 cents.
They requested a 15-day vacation.
The experiment of employing women
in Pittsburgh mills is no longer an ex-
pertinent as far as the women are con-
cerned. At least 200 are employed in
one of the pressed-steel car works in
McKees Rocks, and most Of them
wouldn't go back to scrubbing, wash
ing and bed-making or to work in
stores, cigar or box factories-not If
their wages were doubled. They are
more than satisfied with their work,
and their chief fear Is that the return
of peace will throw them out Of their
Jobs.
Wages of the Amalgamated Assocla-
ton of Sheet and Tin-Plate Workers
were advanced 10h and IL per cent,
at Youngstown, O., at the
settlement between repre-
sentatlves of manufacturers and oper-
atives. The settlement disclosed an
average selling price Of $685. per hun
dred for sheets and $685. per box for
tin plate.
Final settlement Of the strike Of
copper miners in the Cllfton-Morenci-
Metcalf (Ariz.) district, which has
been in progress since July 1, was an
nounced by Secretary of Labor Will
son, chairman of he federal industrial
commission, investigating labor con-
dlticns in the Arizona copper camps.
1000 men are affected,