The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-04

Consul General ]. ]. Britain, sgd
ney, Australia, writes TINT the New
South Wales wages board has mnde HI
adjustment of wages for Office assist,
ants, cashiers and delivery clerks, IN
response 10 claims by the Australian
Clerks association. The award pro
Vides a propor1ianHte wage scale for
mules and females from fifteen Il
rwenty-fhree years, the minimum 81
rwenry-tilree for males being $l4.sss
and for females SS.27 Casual EN-.
ployees employed for less fhan one
week IRE to be paid on the following
basis: Males, IS cents an hour, with
minimum payment of $1.S2 for any
DAY or part thereof females, 30 cents
an hour, with minimum payment Of
Sl.21 for any day or part thereof. Not
more than IS hours shall constitute q
weeks work, TO be worked between
S E. IN. and 6 .. m. on four days, and
s &. m. and 9;45 D. m. on the usual late
shopping nights, and s a. m. and ]
p. II. on usual half-holidRys.
Electricians on the Wabash rail
road will receive increased wages fDi
the rest of tue year. Machinis1s and
their helpers will also receive Rn in
crease. The electricians will receive
$40 per month more and the msehin-
lists and helpers will be raised So per
menth II has also been agreed by the
men and the officials that an eight
hour Gay viii 20 into force on the first
of September.
Joseph GRADER fhirty-three, organic
er for the Industrial Workers of the
World, was arrested al Scranton, Pa.
charged with being an agent for the
German government. II was alleged
that numerous strikes and agiraTi0ns
of the l. w. w, were stirred up by
Graber and other agents of Germany
in the hope Of lessening the coal pro
1uctinn.
The total valuation of the property
of the union matters attached to salts
f. Judgment for .. E. Loewe & Co
in the famous Danbnry matters case
is S362.916. according TO the report Of
the appraisers 10 the federal court
The court award to the Leewe com
paHy was a Httle more than $250.0O0
The Burlington railroad announced
a 10 per cent increase in wages 81
shepmen employed upon Biecework
SkillAa laher wnri5ns RX the daE- II
locomotive shops is given raise Of
cents TN hour. Five weeks ago al
men working by the day were given
q raise of 10 per cent
Miss Jeannerte Rankin, congress
woman from Montana has won her
fight fer shorter labor hours for girls
and women in the bureau Of engraving
ana printing. Secretary McAdoo or
dered the bureau placed on an eight
hour basis for all men and women en-
ploEees.
Managers Of vaudeville and motion
picture theaters il Boston notified
union musicians in their employ that
their services would not be required
further The union recently present
4 ed demands for an increase in wages
varying from 81 to $3.50 a week.
Many trade unions affiliated with the
/ American Federation of Labor have
decided 70 keep up the dues of mem
bers VINO enlist for the protection Of
the country. In addition. they viii pay
+ death benefits 10 their families in case
/ they die in active service.
W. u. Byron & Sons, who conduct
tanneries al WillamsporI, Md, and
/ Mercersburg, Pa, have granted an in.
/ crease of 10 per cent in the wages Of
their employees. This is the second
increase voluntarily granted by the
( firm il the past year.
South Dakota has probably less OF
what is known as Tabor legislation
than any other stare. The only statute
1 of this kind that South Dakota mas
covers hours for the employment OF
women and sanitary regulations.
Following upon various experiments
carried out on small scale last SUM
mer. q league has been founded in Der
h lin for the rransference en- masse Of
town children 70 the country for pro
l0nged stay 10 work on farms.
A wage schedule has been agreed
Oh between the Canadian Pacific and
the men, whereby conductors, brake
men, baggRgemen and yardmen on the
4 c. 7. L. lines east of Fort William oh,
4 tain generous increases.
4 Arrangements have been made by
/ the British ministry of munitions
which will provide q considerable NUN.
Der of the SOC. 600 men required for the
army before the emo Of July
The New York City international
Ladies Garment Workers union has
asked its organized employers to raise
wages 20 per cent
British textile workers, after a con
ference al Bradford, applied for Bs
per cent advance in wages on pro wal
rates
Kingston, Canada, separate schoD
teachers were given bonus Of $50 be
cause If the high cost of living.
All the women organizations in New
York city engaged in war work are Il
he put under one head.
French women are taking the plRcei
I of lumbermen being called to the from
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