The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
10000 KILLED EACH YEAI
Seventy Per Cent Of All These Indu.
trial Casualties Are PreventabIe,
It Is Estimated.


trial Casualties Are PreventabIe,
It Is Estimated.
/ Twenty thousand workmen killed
and two million seriously injured
through industrial accidents in tfd
United States every year, are the fig|
| ures announced by the National Safety|
Council and the American Museum OF
Safety.
/ It is estimated that 10 per cent Of
all Industrial casualties are prevent
able.
! Arthur Fl. Young, director of the
American Museum Of Safety, said that
the number Of laborers killed each
year would equal an army DIVISION
And more than a million and a half
other workers" continued Mr.. Youngs
were SO badly injured that they were
obliged to lose time from their work.
Six hundred thousand of these were
incapacitated for more than four
weeks.
"Such loss of life and so much need
less agony caused by carelessness rel
suits in waste of approximately $600s
100000 annually.
Conditions In this country can be
made great deal better and accidents
lessened to a remarkable extent by d
wider Standardization Of safety meas
ures and accident prevention equip
ment.
A new schedule granting wage ini
creases improved working conditions
and an eight-hour day to approximate
~ $500 engineers and firemen on tho
western lines Of the Canadian PacificS
railway has been accepted by the comb
pany. Under the terms of the newt
schedule, which was drawn up by 81
committee of the Brotherhood of LoIB
connective Engineers and Locomotive
Firemen the men on passenger trains
will receive an increase of per cent
and those on freight trains 5 per cent
The trades union congress of Hol-l
land, representing 10000 workers, af-l
ter considering the American embargo
on foodstuffs and the home crops UNI
favorable outlook, called upon the gov
eminent to reduce prices on fool, fuel
and shoe leather, and to adopt other
measures to prevent misery aiGong'
working classes the coming winter
Chairman Ondegeest said it would be
useless to ask American labor for aid,
as it would not obstruct the United
States governments purpose.
A wage increase of $6,250 a day, or
$1,937000 year, affecting $4,000 Ia-l
borers in the Chicago stockyards has
been granted, effective next payday
Seven large stockyards firms, after
months of consideration, decided to-
grant the men 21s cents an hour In
crease. Labor officials who are at
tempting to organize the stockyardsE
men declare the increase was granted
to keep the men from unionizing.
Wage increases for workers In govt
eminent arsenals and navy yards will
result when the general wage boardV
publishes it's findings; now nearly .=-ssfry
plete. Standardization of wages all
over the country, increased pay in ara
senals and navy yards where workers
have been receiving low wage scales
and no wage reductions will be recom-
mended.
| At the annual conference of the Ma
tional Union Of Railway Men in Man
chester, Eng, it was declared that "the
most effective way of eradicating the
fearful scOurge Of consumption Is to
insure that the citizens are not lacking
in nourishing food, healthy homes and
reasonable facilities for leisure and
open air life"
Representatives of trades unions
having jurisdiction over crafts en-
ployed in the Chicago stockyards and
packing plants have perfected an
organization to unionize the 10000
men, women and children employed Ia
these institutions.
Ruasian radicals demand the estab-
lishnegt In every branch Of national
industry of courts made up equally of
representatives of labor ara g. EN-
plOyers.
A large number Of Nottinghanshire
(England) miners have been ordered
by the magistrates to pay substantial
damages for being absent from the
mines.
Cranemen employed in Frisco ship
yards have completed their organiza-
ton and will be affiliated with the Sta
tlonary Engineers union.
Travelling machine shops, carried, on
motortrucks, are being used in Eng
land to repair automobiles broken
down on country roads.
Portugal has enacted under the re-
public many progressive laws for the
betterment and protection Of the work
ing people.
The Illinois Zinc company has
placed Its organized machinists on the
eight-hour-day basis, with ten hours
pay.
Nottingham Nngland) female cigar
workers, on strike, are asking for an
increase of wages Of % to 85 per cent.
Londonderry (IreIand) boot and shoe