The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-24
GENERAL. LABOR NOTES

Toronto (Canada) Builders Labor
ers' union has 800 members at the
front.
In France the working time Of fe-
male munition workers Is ten hours a
day.
st. Louis (Mo.) aldermen have In
creased the pay Of city workmen to
conform with union scales.
The American Red Cross has given
100000 francs to assist in fighting
the epidemic of Spanish influenza liz
Switzerland.
On the recommendation of the law
committee each member of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor will be as
sessed 1 per cent during the period Of
the war, state bodies S. and central
bodies $40.
Announcement is made by Canada's
food board that as result of the en-
rollment week for the soldiers of the
soil, more than 10000 boys have been
secured in Ontario and the four west
ern provinces.
Eager to take advantage of the Su-
preme courts invalidation of the child
labor law, hundreds of mill, mine and
factory owners are preparing to res
cruit minor children where unprotect-
ed by state laws.
Employees Of the Holyoke (Mass.)
Glazed Paper and Card company,
numbering $50, struck for an increase
OF % per cent in wages and reduce
ton from So to SO working hours a
week. The strikers are not organized.
Madison (Wis.) Federated Trades
council has appointed q special COM
mittee to "study the various schemes
for cooperative stores and othe;I
forms of consumers enterprises whiell
result in reducing the prices of goodl
to the consumer" re
THE striking -sFsf5e ess-sYf III Fss2
& Wesson company, Springfield, Mass,
In mass meeting, unanimously voted
to place their cause in the hands of
President Wilson or his representa-
tive and to abide by the decision of
such arbitrator
The night shifts Of machinists and
toolmakers in Newark, N. J., and vicfn-
ity which comprise about 80 per cent
of the men who recently went on
strike, returned to work following the
promise of the war department to SCI
cure for them raise in pay.
The strike of letter carriers, which
left Toronto and Winnipeg without
mail service for many days, and
which spread to score Of other Cana
dian cities, ended after conference in
Ottawa between representatives of the
men and the Dominion cabinet.
The war labor board denied the re-
quest of eight metal manufacturing In
dustries at Waynesboro, Pa, for a re-
hearing Of the decision granting 1000
employees increased wages ranging
from 40 to 10 cents an hour. An ex-
aminer of the board will determine the
classification of workers.
The sailing Of a feet of steamers
from Boston was held up by strike
Of coal trimmers. They asked for 70
cents an hour, an increase of Is cents.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Car
men reports that A new lodges were
established during the month of Octo.
Der, being more than in any preceding
month in Its history.
Garage repairmen, helpers, automo-
bile washers and polishers formed tbe
first union Of its character In Chicago
under the title of the American Unity
Garage union, It's chief purpose will
be to standardlze the scale of wages
and make six days the standard week
of labor. Washers are to receive S25
a week, polishers, $225O, fioormen
$40, and repalrmen rs cents an hour.
The day, under the union rules, is to
consist of nine hours. 1t was an
nounced that representatives of 80
garages were present at the first meet
ing.
Resolutions protesting against the
section Of the last civil appropria-
tion bill providing that no money an
proprlated for wages nor fixed by stat
ute shall be available to pay wages
In excess Of the standard determined
by the war labor policies board were
passed by the Chicago Federation of
Labor.
Differences between striking street
car conductors and mot0rnen and tha
Georgia Railway and Power coropanv
which have resulted In paralysis Of
the transport system, are settled.
Three hundred and twenty-five helm.
ers working at the Chicago & Alton
shops at Bloomington, ILL.,, went on
strike when they failed to ret an in.
crease In wages. 1t ia feared thot
President Blcrd, federal manager NJ
the Chicago & Alton, acting tnrouob
Secretary McAdoo, win order the On. |
tire shops closed. Two thousand
five hundred men would be thrown ont !
OF work II the shops closed.