The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-03-23
Possibility Of Trouble Between
\ Meat Packers and En-
/ pIoyees Done Away With.
EoPEN SHOP" PROVIDED FOR
thousands of Workers in Ten lmpcr-
tant Cities of the Country Are
Affected-other News Of Gen.
cral Interest to Labor.


fffeGed in an agreement providing
tIhnr there shall be no discrimination
against union members, and that ques'
lions Of hours and wages shall be re-
ffrTed to an arbitrator, appointed by
the secretary of labor. The awards
oh the arbitrator will be in effect
from January II. Under the agree.
ta1ent, grievance committees appointed
by the workers shall be received by
the employers, whether their member
5hip consists of union or nonunion
Iben. 1t affects many thousand work
eFs In Chicago, East st. Louis, Kansas
&ity, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, st.
nul and Sioux City. Suggestions of
ae union men that the government
hould take over the packing plants
'fkr the war are not affected in avert
Ing a strike. President Wilson still
has the suggestion before him, but in
Receiving it he said other methods of
dealing with the situation would be
considered first.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea decided to invoke the assistance OF
the American Federation of Labor to
secure congressional legislation to pre-
vent court procedures such as result
ed in the decision Of the United States
Supreme court in the Hitchman Coal
company of West Virginia case. The
convention decided to meet in CIeve-
land, o., in September, 1919. This
will be the first time the convention
has been held outside Of Indianapolis
10 years.
The United States Supreme court
held that the secretary of labor has
no jurisdiction to arrest and deport
Chinese aliens, on the ground that
they are here in violation Of the Chi
nese exclusion law, and that deporta-
lion can be ordered only by the United
States commissioner or a district
court.
/ Rail Director McAdoo and the re-
Eently appointed railroad wage board
Fill try to settle all pending wage
aHestions within go days, it was an
laeed. The board will hold daily
Il f6H1s T'hd brotherhoods request
AfoA a 40 per cent wage increase will
Ebezheard this week. The wage board
1 eRgraphed the brotherhood chiefs to
#Ohe to Washington for conferences
: Jnorganized railroad employees will
also be asked to present their troubles
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea will never consent to any reduc
zion of their present high wages, &C
tording to a. statement made at thu
miners convention by Frank Earring
ION, president of the Illinois Miners
association. Mr.. Farrington's state
inent was given when the question O.
making a % per cent increase to tn,
Salaries of the international officer
WAS raised. This brought forth thu
huery If 1t was intended to later re
Huce the officials salaries, when TIN
miners pay was reduced in two years
or at the end Of the war.
There are more or less serious labo
disturbances throughout, the Argentine
Republic. The shipping in the por
has nearly been paralyzed as the re
suit of strike. A general strike OF
the Central Cordoba railroad is threat
ened. Bands of the workmen who al
ready have gone out have burned Al
carloads of wood which it was intend
ed to use as fuel.
Validity Of the Idaho law of 191.
giving laboring men the right to collec
wages for a period not exceeding 81
days where employers fail or REFUSE
to pay wages due at the time of dis
charge or voluntary cessation of labol
was sustained by the United States
Supreme court in dismissing an up
peal made by the Idora Hill Mining
company.
The Canadian labor problem in it
relation to the United States ha
been under discussion at Washington
during the last few days. A specia
delegation has returned to Ottawa an,
lis submitting the result of the confer
ences to the government. The resul
of the discussions, it is said, wa
every way encouraging.
The first all-woman jury to sit In
superior court case in California will
be empaneled when Rena Mooney
wife of California labor leader, &C
Quilted of one charge of murder grow
ing out Of the preparedness parad
bomb explosion in 1916, goes on tria
on one of the murder charges still
pending against her.
Manufactures in New York stat,
( employed in December last almost one
| half of one per cent more worker
than In the preceding month and pai'
out nearly one-half of one per cen
more wages than in November, accord
ing to the report Of the state indus
trial commission.
Demanding wage increases from 4
cents to so cents an hour, from 55 t
| 10 cents an hour for overtime, an
from SO cents to 81 an hour for wor
IN Sundays, several hundred long
sIoremen employed by the Souther
Pacific Steamship company went o
strike.