The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-19
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Labor World.

The increase in wages will continue in
force until March 81, 1918. The miners
and operators asserted that the In
crease in the wage scale would mean
an advance in the cost of production of
coal of at least 20 cents a ton and rep
resent an annual wage increase of $780,
100000. Having settled their wage
differences, the miners and operators
will now unite to cooperate with the
council of national defense in main
tanning the production of coal to meet
government requirements. A joint
committee for this purpose was APP
pointed by the wage conference before
it adjourned.
The Harbison-Walker Refractories
company of Clearfeld, Pa, announced
new increase in the wages of all en-
ployees of 20 cents a day. Several
thousand men in western Pennsylva-
MIA were benefited. On March of
this year the company advanced wages
10 per cent.
August Belmont, speaking before the
National Civic federation, went on rec
ord as favoring the extension of work
mems compensation laws to all occu-
pations instead of limiting them to
those which are considered hazardous.
The children's bureau of the federal
department of labor claims that ap-
proximately one in ten of all the babies
born In the United States dies before
completing twelve months of life.
The International Molders' union has
not only refused to admit women to
membership, but decided to use every
honorable means, even marriage, to
discourage women from following the
vocation of coremakerS.
William j. Bowen, president of the
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers'
International Union of America, was
appointed member of the advisory
commission of the council of national
defense
In Germany women are acting as ele
yator boys, delivery boys, drivers or
milk wagons, post wagons and depart
ment-store wagons, and as street cal
conductors and motormen.
The American Association for Labor
Legislation is seeking to have intro
duced in ~ state legislatures bill
calling for what is known as compul
sorry social insurance.
With the signing of a union shoI
agreement by Associated Fur Manufac
turers, the eight-hour day has been Sc
cured in the fur Industry of Greater
New York.
Los Angeles Typographical unioI
has signed a two-year agreement will
newspaper publishers. Rates for da!
work will be So and for night work
$3.50.
FederationS on various western rail
road systems will proceed In their owl
way and negotiate for an eight-hou
day and 10 per cent wage increase.
Anthracite coal operators of Penn
sylvanla, western New York and part
of Ohio announced 20 per cent in
crease in wages for 10000 miners.
Out of the 100000 children of Eng
land between the ages of twelve ant
sixteen, only 100000 receive an,
| further education after thirteen.
The Great Central railway now run
special trains for the woman worker
! in the munition factories at Queens
ferry, Wales.
Three hundred and fifty thousan
/ women are now working In the gov
| ernment-controIled munitions works 1
| France.
/ Organized stove mounters in Quincy
/ Ill. have secured one-year agree
/ raent and a 10 per cent wage Increase
The Warehouses Of Londonderr
has been busy lately recruiting COOK
and Mattresses for the British army.
Fifty per cent Of the woman wag
earners in California are married
men who are regularly employed.
Several Canadian municipaliue
have taken steps to organize for farl
I fiEiD anu SEkdLSI PipNN~A'
! A women's and girls division OF Tn
United States employment service Is
ID. Organized in Washington.
Coal IS now being transported in M
mr cars direct TO Paris from II
Yiaes.
In Jsc,2 handloOm weayers In Bait
o1re.s yere paid S5 cents day OF
hours.
Garment workers at Washingto
have recelyed an eight-hOur day.
T Wmaen are employed In eIeamr
sastleStdps In England.
i lbs Angeles painters demand
nfa.as4 ~ ~ a day
I 6rezonss legislature KILLED sem
monthly pa day bill.
Fees HsojGers st Knoxville, Tenn
a4k $s cents 80 hour.
Painters NJ Nannetfe, Wis, demaf
WI fs4sss ~ hour.
s1g4k Carolina employs 1890 chi
Ss41 BsAer sixteen.
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