The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-20
Manufacturer Believes His Plan
Would Largely Do AWAY
With Strikes.
HAS EXPLAINED HIS SYSTEM
Would Have Individual Agreements
Between the Railroads and Their
Employees-FederaI Supreme
Court Dismisses Labor Test
Case From New York.

merce of the United States to accep
his plan of avoiding strikes. 1t in
wolves a system of contracts between
the railroads and their employees will
the establishment of funds by boil
parties from which penalties will b,
paid for breach of contract. The plar
further involves contracts which are
individual between the railroad ant
each employee and not with railroad
employees union.
Without deciding constitutional
questions raised, the Supreme court
dismissed a test case appealed by the
Charles SchWeinler Press, corpora
ton of New York city, to determine
validity of New York's woman labor
law which prohibits night employment
OF women. The court held that the
question had not been determined as
required by the highest New York
court, but only by an inferior court.
j. q. Lewis Of Boone, Ia, has been
elected president of the United Mine
Workers OF America, district No. 13,
it was announced by John Gay, secre-
tary of the district. Lewis had ma
jority of 1858 votes over James r.
Moran of Des Moines his closest COM
petitor and present incumbent. Dis
trict Is comprises Iowa and northern
Missouri.
Notices were posted at the plants of
the HI. G. Prick Coke company through
out the coke region announcing an in
crease of 10 per cent in wages. APP
proximately 10000 men are affected.
This is the third increase given the
coke workers in a year. Independent
companies are expected to meet the
advance.
Official announcement is made at
the local headquarters Of the Great
Northern ore properties that gen.
eral 10 per cent increase in wages will
be given to all it's employees.
The Stanard-Tilton Milling company,
with mills at Alton, ILL.,, and at Dallas,
Tex, announced that bonus OF a
months pay would be given to all
employees. The company employs
about 800 men.
The Hughes-Booher bill, which seeks
to prohibit interstate commerce in
convict-made goods, occupies favor
able place on the calendar of both
houses of congress. A bill calling for
bureau of labor safety passed the
house at the last session.
Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor purposes to establish at the state
college 40 scholarships for the educa-
ton of skilled young tradesmen and
women, members of labor unions. The
students will receive special training
which, added to their practical trade
and industrial experience, will enable
them to serve as teachers in the con-
tinuation and vocational schools of the
state.
A recommendation that old-age pen
sions be paid to members of the United
Mine Workers of America after they
are sixty-five years old, and to disa-
bled miners under that age, will be
made by the special committee ap-
pointed by John P. White, president of
the organization, to investigate the
matter.
A move Is expected In the next ses-
sion of the Kansas legislature to an
null the eight-h0ur law on state, coun-
ty, township and city public build
ings.
For each day in 1915, up to Novem-
Der l, there were 800 Industrial work
ers killed ,r injured In Pennsylvania.
The monthly average is oil killed and
2O,773 injured.
According to the thirty-fourth an
nual report of the fishery board of
Scotland more than half Of the to-
tai number Of Scottish fishermen are
engaged in national service.
Because Of the increasing price of
milk, Liverpool (England) city council
IS to be asked by the labor representa-
lives to establish a municipal supply.
The increased employment of Chi
lese in the mercantile marine OF Great
Britain is resented by organized labor
n England.
With one exception, the entire orig
nal staff Of male operators in Belfast.
Ireland, on the post Office telephones.
nave gone to the war.
France and Russia are importing
thousands Of Chinese and Indo-C Chinese
% work in munition factories and ar
'enals to free their native workmen
or military duty.
Women are employed as section
lands on German railroads.
Great Britain has 100000 workers |
n her trade unions.
America Is far behind Europe in /;
he field of social insurance. t
In two years the cost of living in
Denmark has increased 35 per cent. {
Coal miners in the Fernie (B. CT {
istrict want % per cent war bonus.
There are 1900 coal miners en- /
loyed in Iowa. {
London tEngland} nurses are to
ave $4,000 clubhouse. f
This country has $3.50 piano manufac-
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