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

About 1,500 porcelain workers vino
had been OF strike in Trenton, n. J.,
for three months voted TO return 10
work. Nearly 1.200 quit work April :
for better shop conditions and more
pay. All increase in pay was offered
and 4 number Of strikers returned to
work. hut most Of them held out for
the original demands. Nearly all OF
the zen porcelain plants in this city
We're closed by the strike. AT the re-
cent meating the strikers accepted. an
offer from the manufacturers granting
an advance in wages and improved
shop conditions. The amount Of the
increase YVES not stated.
The wages of conductors and MOTOR
men Of the Philadelphia Rapid Trans
ii company VIII be increased , cents
an hour. The minimum rate under the
increase VIII be 30 cents an hour for
new men and the maximum 50 cents
for men fiye years in service. More
than 6.OO0 men Gre Infected.
The state Industrial commission is
sued an order prohibiting all night
work for women IN manufactures and
laundries in wisconsin. Night work
is declared to be work performed be
tween the hours NJ 2. n and q. N.
Pea canning factories are excepted
from this order
The stare supreme court mas upheld
the Arkansas minimum wage law
which provides that inexperienced
woman employees shall receive not
less than 81 a day and after six months
the rate shall net be less than Sl.2o a
day for nine hours.
During May there We're "a strikes II
I Canada, involving ia firms and 16,935
employees. Twenty-four Of these
strikes involving 70 firms and 3.2st
! employees. commenced during the
month. Seventeen strikes terminated
/ during the month,
I Clerks in the offices Of the Illinois
( Central railroad. on the ST Louis d.
/ vision. have been notified Of an in
crease in wages. The increases range
from s 10 10 per cent, and about 25t
clerks on the division are affected By
/ the raise.
In The metropolitan area Of Berlin
! Germany. there were Oh January
4 more than twice as many women ant
4 girls engaged in Industrial pursuits al
1 men and boys, the number being re
spectiveiy, g74.600 and 11S,a01
I German authorities have broken tins
recent strike Al the shipyards in Stet
/ tin. They threatened 10 muster tn:
strikers as soldiers and subject then
10 punishment melted out TO mutineer
unless they resumed work.
+ The biggest employment bureau il
the world-thaI OF the w0meu's ant
4 girls division Of the employment serw
! ice-ls directed bF the federal depart
/ meut Of labor in Washington.
4 Food prices advanced 81 per cent be
I tween April Is, 1916, and april 16
4 1917. reports the federal bureau Of La
4 Dor and statistics.
4 The American Hotel association vii
organize a force Of cooks to 1eaci
/ other cooks at American army camps
1 In Vancouver, B. c., l,5oo womel
are enrolled as fruit pickers and III Vic
/ Toria 500
/ Carpenters international has Isl
local unions and q total Of 283, 0o
I members.
4 Fifty Thousand disabled soldier
were placed in ensI.+oyment in England
last year.
Ontario. Canad8, will employ al leas
! 5000 men after the war III building
roads
Boukhinders ct Toronto, Can, havi
secured IN increase Of S4.50 o week.
Wichita 6Kan3 plasterers have In
creased wages I21s cents an hour.