The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-15
Committee on Industrial Fatigue
Has Undertaken Most I'M
portant Work.
PROMINENT MEN WILL SERVE
Munition Factories and All Establish
ments Making War Supplies viii
Receive Acknowledgements
Restraints Massachusetts,
Building Trades Unions.


defense. The committee has under.
taken to investigate munition factories
and other industrial establishments
making war supplies with view to
determine how avoidable fatigue may
be eliminated and how the greatest out,
put OF war necessities may be acom-
plished compatible with the mainten-
ance of the physical powers of the
workers. The members of the COM
mittee are: DR.. Thomas Darlington,
New York, chairman; Prof. Frederick
B. Lee, Columbia university, executive
secretary; Prof. Robert E. Chaddock,
Columbia university; Prof. Raymond
Dodge, Wesleyan university; DR.. Da-
vid L. Edsall, Harvard Medical school /;
T. Sargant Florence, Columbia univer-
sity; Miss Josephine Goldmark, Ma
tional Consumers league Prof. Ernest
G. Martin, Leland Stanford university /;
Or. j. W. Schereschewsky, public
health service; DR.. Ernest L. Scott,
Columbia university.
Building trades unions were en-
joined from continuing q strike at the
new buildings being erected for the
Fore River Shipping corporation at
Quincy, Mass, for use in constructing
United States destroyers, under an in
Junction issued by Judge Fox in the
superior court at Boston. The Aber-
thaw Construction company, engaged
in putting up the. buildings, charged
that the allied building trades council
and electrical workers union had be-
gun strike with view of compelling
the company to employ only union
men. Judge Fox's injunction virtually
maintains an open shop on the work
Of the government.
The Amsterdam Lokh AnZeiger
states that several hundred workmen
employed in Krupps' Magdeburg plant
have gone on strike owing to the ar
rest of one of their leaders. The work
men considered this disciplinary
measure and sent deputation headed
by the reichstag deputy, Herr Brondes,
to the deputy commander in chief, ask
ing him to release the leader. Tire
deputy commander in chief informed
the deputation that the man under ar
rest was suspected of high treason be-
cause he had distributed handbillS in
citing workers to general strike.
An official announcement was made
at Danbury, Conn, to members Of the
United Hatters of North America that
they will be permitted to seek employ
ment in the factories of D. E. Loewe
& Co. in that city, the CrOfut & Knapp
Hat Co. of South Norwalk, Waikiki Hat
Co. of Peekshill, N. Y; Knox Hat Co.,
Brooklyn, Schoble & Co., Guyer Hat
Co. and Roelofs & Co. of Philadelphia.
All these concerns are operating open
shops, but heretofore union members
have not been permitted by the union
to take employment with them.
A railway strike on British lines was
forbidden in an official proclamation
The war munitiOn act of 1915 is ap,
piled, and the locomotive drivers, fire.
men and engine cleaners are directed
to take their grievances to the minis
try of labor for settlement by concili
alton or arbitration. Meanwhile al
stoppage Of work is prohibited and II
Is Illegal to apply any union funds fol
the purpose of paying strike benefits
"The proud boast of every trade
union should be unstinted loyalty tt
the United States of America" salt
John P. White, international presiden
of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, in a statement issued here on la
Dor Day, 1917" "We must play on
part manfully and WE'LL" the statemen
says. Every legitimate endeavo
should be exercised before a tieup il
any trade results"
Concerning telegram from Secre
tary Of War Baker, urging an eight
hour day for Pacific lumber workers
Robert B. Allen, secretary of the Yves
Coast Lumber association, said Will
the lumbermen were anxious to co-oT
crate with the government and consid
ering Secretary Bakers message, the
did not feel that they could conced
the eight-hour day at this time.
Steam Engineers union, No Is
+ whose members are employed in brew
cries in Cincinnati, Newport and Gov
ington, KY, have secured a new agree
ment which raises wages $3.50 a weel
and, for the first time, abolshes tn
seven-day week. Eight hours da
and the six-day week will be the rul
hereafter.
A strike of workers in the Essen an
Dusseldorf Germany districts
threatened. The workers demand tel
pounds of potatoes weekly. At meet
ing arranged between labor delegate
and the war food department it wa
declared that 1t was impossible to Civ
the workers more than eight pounds o
potatoes during the next 20 weeks.
, Fifty thousand workers in the Lar
cashire, Cheshire and Derbyshir
(Eng) bleaching and dyeing trade.
have been granted by the Mancheste
conference new bonus ranging fror
s1.75 to $3.50 a week above pre-wa
rates.