The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-13
PLAN 70 LEAVE MINE RANGES
Industrial Workers of the World Said
to Have. Decided Respecting Du-
Iuth and Minnesota.

World will leave that part of the
country, it was said at /. w. w. head
quarters. Despite the labor troubles
on the Mesaba range last summer the
mines shipped more ore than ever be-
fore in their history. Elizabeth Cur
ley Flynn, James Gilday and Joseph
Ettor have been in charge of the 1.
| w. w. fight. Three I. w. w. mem-
bers, charged with manslaughter in
connection with trouble at the mines.
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
prison.
The national industrial conference
board was organized recently at the
annual convention of the National
Founders association. At present the
boards membership includes IL ma
tional associations Of industrial en-
ployers, comprising more than $4,000.
who furnish employment to about u
100000 workers. Eight billion dollars
of capital Is said to be represented.
1t is planned to bring other assoc
Citations of a similar character into the
cooperative work until the new or
ganization is recognized as fully typ.
ical of the progressive industrial moves
ment throughout the county.
Minimum wage for housemaids, 81
a week, working time, ten hours a
day. This is the outcome of the or
ganization of the Pittsfield (Mass.)
Servant Girls union, which it is pre-.
dicted will likely spread to Boston.
Formerly housemaids In Pittsfeld
could be hired for So week. The
housemaids are seeking to affiliate
the washerwomen and scrubwomen,
who are expected to demand mini
mum of So day instead of $1.50 they
now receive.
Mrs. Florence Kelly, general secre-
tary of the National Consumers
League, says she hopes to live to see
the day when no girl will be allowed
to work in store until after she has
passed her twenty-1rst birthday Mrs.
Kelley is leader In all the principal
movements for the betterment of the
conditions of workingmen and women,
and was instrumental in the breaking
up of the traffic in child labor in glass
| factories.
The directors of the General Elec-
trio company have voted additional
compensation of 10 per cent Of their
monthly earnings to all employees who
receive $500 or less year, the adj
ditional payments to continue until
further notice. The bonus order affects
about 10000 employees.
Fifteen thousand workmen were
made idle at Wheeling, w. Va, as 9
result of serious shortage Of natural
hgas, which forced almost every fac
fury anu mn in the Wheeling district
depending upon gas for fuel to close
The shortage was said to be due to
the severe weather there.
Trades union methods have reduced
the workday in Illinois state institu-
lions from 13 and 16 to. 8 hours
Other gains included equal pay fol
equal work where men and women
were employed and two-week annual
vacation.
Women represent from 10 to 16 pei
cent of the total number Of persons
employed on French railroads before
the war. In Germany they represented
between 6 and per cent.
Omaha Plasterers' union has issued
a rule that between November l and
April Is plasterers will not work in ar
open building and that the windows
must be put in.
AS a result of the special one-cent
assessment to organize women, ap
proximately 10000 woman workers
have Joined the trade union movement
within year.
The repeal of the exclusion order
against the entry into British Colum
bia of ARTISANS and laborers skilled
and unskilled," is now being demand
ed.
The weekly budget Of food for ar
average Canadian workingman's fam
lily has increased 33 cents since Sep
TENDER, being now placed at $3.50.
An eight-hour day is universal In
the Jurisdiction of the international
Hold Carriers, Building and Common
Laborers of America.
The Canadian industrial disputes ACT
prohibits a strike or lockout in pub
lie utility until after commission in
vestigates.
Railroad shop employees at San
Juan, Porto Rico, have secured an In
crease in pay and better working con
ditions.
Welsh coal owners have refused the
workmen's application for new audit
of their books to regulate wages.
In Boston 67 per cent Of female mil.
linery workers average less than S. q
week throughout the year.
Wood carvers of New York city re
Gently received q reduction in hours
and wage increase.
Canadian railway unions are solving
the high cost of living by cooperative
purchasing of provisions.
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