The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-10
Thousands of Those Afflicted Be-
lieve That the Cause Is
Constitutional.
ASSERTION MADE BY DOCTOR
Change of Occupation or Conditions
Surrounding Their Labor Is the
Only Remedy, He says
Would Have compensa-
tion Paid Them.

Len tlLHeS DIS HdHy persons are sur
fering from occupational diseases as
ordinary medical examination would
disclose, said Dr. David L. Edsall OF
the Massachusetts General hospital
Boston, In an address before confer.
ence on social insurance. Thousands
of men and women are i'll and think
the cause is constitutional, while they
actually have disease caused by their
work." he said. Change of employ
ment or of the conditions surrounding
their labor would remedy the illness.
For this reason states should encour-
age closer study of occupational dis
eases than is afforded by general med
ical practice" Compensation should
be paid to sufferers from occupational
diseases just as fully as to industrial
accident Victims Doctor Edsall de-
clared
Ohio miners, in convention ut Colum-
bus, adopted resolutions asking their
state officers to confer with the inter-
national officers of the United Mine
Workers of America with a view to
calling meeting of the operators of
the central competitive district, includ-
ing Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and western
pennsylvania, and asking them for "a
greater share Of the present prosper
ity which we hear so much about but
which we do not enjoy"
Contractors in central Pennsylvania
have solved the problem of keeping
labor on the job, says the Engineering
Record. The force of one contractor
who began paying his men off every
day instead of at the end of the week
was so pleased with the arrangement
that it stuck by him, and other con-
tractors have adopted the same plan.
According to reports, the plan has met
with success wherever tried.
In new phase of the old "Danbury
Hatters' case" the Supreme court de-
cided that Pietrich e. Loewe, Danbury,
Conn.,, hat manufacturer, and not the
United Hatters' union, is entitled to
$4,000 in interest accrued in union
matters saving bank deposits attached
toward satisfying Loewe's 1858, 900
Judgment secured under the Sherman
law for union boycottlng in 1903.
Every American citizen over sixty
five, who is incapable of manual la
Dor and whose annual income is less
than 5000, would get a pension of 50
a week under bill before the house
pension committee. Representative
Sherwood of Ohio is its author.
The power of the "big four" rail-
road brotherhoOds may be increased
by the addition of thousands of mo-
tOrmen and conductors on traction
lines. A committee representing the
traction line employees of Indiana con-
ferred with representatives of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
regarding utilization.
An eight-hour day order for justices
of the North Dakota supreme court is
being considered following an upris-
ing of wheat raisers against market
conditions. Justices will be required
to keep log, showing the time spent
on every case, and account for every
minute II their time for Nght hours
n day.
Since October / the membership of
the California State Feredation of La
Dor has increased by more than TO-
900, making it one of the largest If
not the largest, state labor bodies af-
filiated with the American Federation
Of Labor.
About 1000 workmen have been vac
cinated as a result Of the discovery of
smallpox in Turtle Creek and Brad
dock, Pennsylvania. The work is I'M
der the direction of the state board of
health.
The Postal Telegraph Gable com
pany has announced a wage increase
of 8 per cent to all employees through.
out the country who were in the COM
pany's service January I.
David Lawson, stationmaster M
Shettleston, England has retired after
511A years service In the employment
of the North British Railway company.
With one exception the entire orig
inal staff of male operators in Bel
fast, Ireland, on the post office tele-
phones, have gone to the war
Between 100000 and 100000
wage earners of the 30,000,O0O engaged
in gainful occupations in the United
States work eight hours a day.
Salary increases for $4,000 city Off.
Gals and employees, amounting to ST.
147.180, are proposed in the New York
city budget for 1917.
Theodore P. Shonts recently de-
clared In Chicago that unions should
be under regulations just as public
s9rvice corporations are.
International Seamen's union has
doubled its membership In the last
year and is now over the 10000 mark. |
South Africa has established fac
tory for the extraction Of rubber from
the roots and vines Of rubber plants.
Half Of the $1,000 members OF the
Of Painters work In shops
employing less than five men.
Carpenters at Lansing. Mich, will
ask for an eight-hour day and in
creased pay April 1, 1917.