The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-14
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Railroads in South Dakota are en-
ploying woman section hands.
Trade unions in Wisconsin aim to
secure minimum wage of $3.50
week for woman employees in indus
try.
San Diego (Cal) street car men
have organized and affiliated with the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Employees.
The national harness and saddlery
adjustment commission has ordered
wages increased to 60 cents an hour
for leather workers employed on gov
eminent contracts.
The navy department issued an or
der disseminating until further notice
all Sunday work in navy yards and
other shore stations. The order be-
comes effective at once.
Gordon Kelly of Vancouver, b. c.,
president of the Pacific coast district
of the International Longshoremen's
association, died at Seattle, WASH,
from pneumonia, following influenza.
An agreement has been reached be-
.ssiaasA the imperial munitions board
u "a fr4sapta nia.nla1aa ondwori=-
'ers, by which all differences have been
settled The wage scale will be 65
cents an hour.
The present constitutional govern
hent of Mexico incorporated in the
new constitution, promulgated on Feb
ruary 5, 1917, the most advanced labor
legislation in the world along the lines
adopted by New Zealand.
The campaign of the employment
service to restore TO the coal and metal
mines of the country experienced work
ers who have gone into other employ
ment is meeting with success, said an
announcement by the department of
labor.
Thirteen thousand job and cylinder
presSmen and allied trades in New
York city asked the national war labor
board for 80 per cent wage increases,
a basic eight-hour day in all shops and
reinstatement of men who they claimed
were locked out by employers.
The total cost of erecting the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor headquarters
in Washington. which included the cost
of the ground upon which the build
ing stands. was S1S9.31T.6S. OF this
amount $66.740 has been paid off, leay-
ing an Indebtedness OF $122, 800.
In q decision ordering three union
heads TO stand trial for alleged viola
ton of the antitrust laws in calling
a strike, Judge Lands ruled that the
Clayton act. generally supposed to
grant immunity in such cases, did not
apply where the accused were not
among the strikers.
The national war labor board denied
the appeal OF employees of the Com
monwealgh Steel company OF Granite
City, H.. for recognition of the union.
which had been refused by the steel
company and for minimum wage
rate Of 90 cents per hour for common
labor instead Of 80 cents an hour
awarded by Major Rogers
The c0nfeSieratel hartsor unions Of
Havana. Cnba- comprising the steve
d0res- firemel, sailors launch opera
tors. warehouse employees and all dock
workers voted for a general strike in
an effort To- enforce their demands for
Increased vae es, recognition 0f their
union 4nd . half holiday On Saturday
1t is estimated that nearly 5000 men
were affected
The number Of children employed irl
factories na5-es and q4arraes has i'm
creased RAPIDLY sinee the federal child
labor law was declared uucsgus4Etui-
tSlm1E- gane 5 last. 1n the basis of q
report mz8de HsE EnvesB5Ea 10rs Of tine
eAHE8isEl's azreal o4 11sF department az
EA5dw THE repeal of the law also Dis
shown TO hare EesaBts,d III the Bsngra-
s15ng 81 the EFDrk1arg day f0r aadldren.
Several hundred wadt@rs and eamks
at 1h8e F5adegssl1 ausd Piazza ho1eEs.
View F@rk- went gD strike. 55dmBnr l.
800 eaa9l5Ese.es OF the McAlpda.. waH-
3sg4 AsaagEH, CIlarS8gs and Asasr h,5.
se8s i'm Demands for ksgSer wages
vEad1zrs st Hfa4 BElannoua- BsAuDgag.
MEsiAAaaAR. AaGs1nitR and MMfTaF Hill
EEEg 70 eu4- The wRhdagS ask M Br-
sr4lgss '1Freun SID ito $lss . wesEk,r The
hBfals eRsaan limit. plas tHgs and hGurvd
GAaT met 500 a nzaaI-Ih.