The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-23
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


Toronto, Canada.
Canada's railway trades represent
10000 workers.
BARRIERS at Kansas City, Mo, secured
a ten-and-one-half-hour day.
White and colored shoe workers at
Mobile, Ala, have organized.
San Diego (Cal) mill men have Sc
cured an eight-hour day.
A new union just formed includes
all the retail grocery clerks in Fresno,
Cal.
At Sioux City, Ia, the new printers
scale for day work calls for $27 and
$50 for night work,
In England all private employment
agencies have been discontinued since
the outbreak of war.
The wage paid to the street clean
els and scavengers of Toronto is SIS
per week, and they demand 500.
Two policewonlen are employed by
Hendon (Eng.) district council to- pa
rel q Nets and the public mark.
Ia fhtffirst year OF the war possibly
s10,000.O00 working days were lost by
strikes Of organized labor workers.
All enemy aliens engaged as hair
dressers in England have been ordered
to find work of national Importance.
A favorable report was ordered by
the senate judiciary committee on the
bill authorizing dry zones extending
five miles around all coal mines.
That eastern Ohio will not fail to
meet General Pershing's demand for
100000 tons of coal weekly from this
district was the sentiment expressed
at q conference of labor leaders and
operators called at Cleveland by Fuel
Production Manager J. ]. Roby.
Man power in many of the mines in
the Westmoreland district in Pennsyl-
vania has fallen off Is and 20 per
cent within the last year, but by work
ing six full days each week the men
In the 200 mines expect to keep over
a minimum production Of 100000 tons
per week.
More than 1900 members of the
Boilermakers and Independent Ship
builders union quit work at Portland,
Ore, In the shipyards, taking a Satur-
day half holiday as protest against
the failure of the navy board to an
nounce its decision on wages and
working conditions.
The strike of 80 plumbers and
steamfitters at the government nj
trates plant at Toledo, O., threatened
to tie up all work at the institution.
The men have been receiving the union
scale Of 6S cents an hour with time
and half for overtime. They de-
mand a fraction over 81 cents an hour.
That labor unions must not, by
strike, interfere with the work Of
manufacturing war equipment, and
that the long-established principles
that gave the unions the right to call
strikes, cannot now be applied, Is the
decision of Justice Townsend Scudder,
handed down in the New York SUI
preme court.
AT d meeting of the workers who
struck at the e. w. Bliss company's
Brooklyn plant at New York, at which
torpedoes and shells are manufactured,
1t was learned that the men walked
out to support the demand of women
employees for wages equal to those of
the men. Estimates of the employees
on strike range from 1900 to 1000.
Most of the men strikers are of draft
age and.we given deferred classical
ton.
Vancouver (B. CO. street car men
are to receive a minimum of 40 cents
an hour and a maximum of 81 cents an
hour, two years service to determine
the maximum pay. They receive the
day and get time and half
for overtime
The 100000 shipyard workers in Pa
citic coast states have been ordered
to remain at work Saturday after
moons BY their respective iron trades
councils, despite efforts of unions in
some quarters to declare Saturday
half holiday. Frank c. Miller, Sec
rotary of the San Francisco Iron
Trades council, announced.
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