The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-02
WOULD ADMIT ALlrN LABOR
New York Eoard Of Trade ravors sill
for Suspension Of Exclusion Laws
in Time Of War.

the president power in rs..Ss Of wal
to suspend any law excluding af.ans
from the United States The bill Ii
for the specific purpose of bringing il
Chinese and Japanese labor.
The activities of the Jewish Agricul.
tural and Industrial Aid society extend
10 S6 states and to Canada. Its main
object is the fostering and encourages
meme of agriculture among Jewish inn
migrants. 1t conducts farm loan de,
partment which in IL years has made
41,000 loans, aggregating $2,330, 092
and q farm labor bureau which in nine
years secured positions for 6,99S men
Various educational activities and Co
operative enterprises are conducted By
the society.
Ohio authorities are calling attention
to the woman's 50-hour law, passed by
the last legislature. The law applies
to females employed in any factory,
workshop, telephone or telegraph Of
f1ce, millinery or dreSsmal1ing eStab-
lishment, restaurant, or in the hand
ling of messages, or in any mercantile
establishment. Exception Is made for
canneries or establishments handling
| perlshable goods. This law reduces
hours from "a week
In one typical British munition fac
tory it is estimated that $500 hours
| per week are saved by prompt atten-
ton to slight accidents and illnesses,
while another factory, which has in
creased its output by 10 per cent re-
ports that substantial proportion OF
this increase is directly traceable to
the lessening of fatigue by the intro
duction of chairs In the women's
shops.
In the public service in Mexico ii Is
obligatory for the workers to give ten
days notice before q strike to the com
mission of Cancellation and arbitra-
/ ton. Strikes are considered illegal
only when majority of the strikers
exercise acts Of violence against prop
erty or persons or In case of war if the
workers belong to government estab-
lishments.
The International Machinists' idea
seems to have taken hold in Canada.
A few years ago there were only one
or two locals Today there are To-
Ontario, 30; Quebec, 8; Nova Scotia,
2; New Brunswick, 8; Manitoba, 81;
Saskatchewan, 5; Alberta, 6, and Brit
ish Columbia, z.
A wage increase of Is per cent was
granted to Pere Marquette freight
house employees at Saginaw, Mich, to
bring back 60 freight handlers who
quit work because they could secure
| higher wages elsewhere. The advance.
amounts to about So IA month for each
man. Ss sts ~ ~ e M
Government control and operation OF
all railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines during the period Of the war and
| the drafting into the military service
of the country of the employees Of
such common carriers is authorized in
a bill approved by President Wilson.
The strike of 300 employees of the
Chicago Shipbuilding company, South
Chicago, was settled. The strike.
which came under the notice of the de-
partment of justice, Is said to have
| been due to quarrel between differ
ent unions employed at the yards.
| A 10-hour work day has been estab-
lished at the Charleston navy yard, in
stead of the eight-hour day as hereto
fore, About $500 persons are affected
by the change. The day now begins at
7 a. m. and ends at $40 with 40 min
utes for dinner
An order in council has been passed
extending for another six months the
embargo on the entry into British CO.
lumbia from the United States, China
or Japan of any immigrants classed as
skilled or unskilled laborers.
Both branches of the Iowa legisla-
ture have favored these changes in
the state workmen's compensation act:
Decreased waiting period, additional
medical and surgical attendance and
higher compensation rates.
Business men throughout the country
are agreeing to equal pay for equal
work for women who take places Of
men called to war, says Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, who has been directing
nationwide appeal.
Measures for the temporary assist
ance of farmers who have suffered loss
Of crops and live stock on account of
the drought and locusts have recently
been proposed by the Argentine min
lister of finance.
Five hundred employees of the AL
baugh Dover company, manufacturers
of farm machinery in Chicago, re-
turned to work after three-days
strike. Their demands were granted.
Ontario (Canada) unions demand
one days rest in every seven for all
workers.
twenty-five American women are
acting as ambulance drivers in Sa-
llonica.
Garment workers at Birmingham,
Ala, have received 10 per cent in
crease.
In 1897 the BARRIERS International
union had 1900 members. 1t now has
$4,000
Strikes in this country date back to
1740, when group Of journeymen