The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-04-27
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Garment Workers who struck at Chi
cago returned to work. the manufac.
turers having granted a 10 per cert
increase In wages. About 1900 who
worked for contractors employed by
the manufacturers remained on strike.
The contractors. II was charged. were
trying to compel the manufacturers to
pay greater advance to them than
was given the employees. W
Organized labor will ask the Chi.
cagO city council to pass an ordinance
compelling city officials to do all de-
rartment work in municipal shops
The Chicago Federation of Labor will
prepare the ordinance. Resolutions
adopted say that only $4,000 was ap-
propriated to run the municipal shops
which turned out $3250O0 in work In
1916 and $4,000 In 1917. 4
Members and officials Of the Chi
cago branch of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America indorA0d
the manifesto of the national officers
In seconding the formal approval OF
the war aims as enunciated by the In
terallied labor council. the war aims
stated by President Wilson and de
claring sympathy for the war for de-
mocracy
On account OF lack Of oil for fuel.
part of the plant of the International
Paper company at Liverrnore Falls,
Me-. was closed for an indefinite pc
Rod, throwing 300 employees out Of
work. Ten machines of the newsprint
department and the sulphite woof
plants, run by wNer power, were moi
affected.
The women Of Allegheny county,
Pa. want to be aviatrices, butchers
actresses and detectives. but thet
don't want to he munitions w0rkerd
Out of $4,000 women, only ten seelt
even remotely interested In shrapneY
bombs and fuses: just 50 have had
training and "a have only the intend
Representatives of every variety oil
public employee In the state appeared
before the senate civil service commit
tee ut Albany to urge favorable actioI
on the bill Of Senator James J. Walkei
of New York, giving dismissed civil
service employees the right to appeal
to the courts.
Regulations requiring inclusion ~
every contract feaF wa cassfiln A. Y l &
of clause limiting the daily serviNtc
of workmen engaged In SUCH wol L
to eight hours have been suspended
for the duration of the present emei
gency, the war department announced
Organization of the street car mel
at Topeka, Kan, began when fifty MOI
tormen and conductors employed bA
the Topeka Street Railway company
signed applications for membership Id
local union of which John linn wa}
elected president.
Secretary McAdoo has called on
American labor not to object IL the
nations war policy of conserving
credit results in curtailed building OPP
erations, but to seek some other kind
of employment If necessary as @ pa.
triOtic duty.
Four dollars day for pick-and.
shovel men is being demanded by the
laborers employed in Norwich. Conn
They are now receiving $2.75 to 1921
day. Formerly street laborers
throughout the state received $1.5(
q day.
Thirty thousand textile workers may
become idle in Fall River, Mass. as
result of strike called by the fire
men In 100 cotton mills. The men de
mand an eight-hour day, without re-
duction in wages. and closed shop.
The men in the workshops of the
Austrian railways have struck and re
fused to obey the orders of the mill
tary to return to work, the Berlin Lo
kal Anzeiger states. The strike, 1t Ii
added, is spreading to other factories
Ten thousand persons employed By
the Liggett & Myers Tobacco company
In st. Louis struck for an eight-houl
huy, HItIcuoCu pay anu iVNoSHltiou VI
the union. Twelve Industries were af
fected by the strike.
The largest notice Of increase OF
stock to be filed In long time camt
from the McKeesport Tinplate com
pany of McKeesport, which raised 1t,
stock from $3.000,000 to $1O,O00,OOO.
According to British government
statistics recently compiled IT takes five
women to do the work Of four men ir
ths munition factories.
Conscriptlon of wealth will be one
of the main planks In the British Labor
party platform.
Oakland (Cal) municipal firemen
hive formed union and affiliated with
the A. r. of l..
Casualty figures for switchmer
show the percentage is greater thar
for the armies In Europe.
Chicago business men urge increased
pay for municipal employees receiving
small wages.
The legislature of Massachusetts hal,
provided for pioneer work in va
riety Of fields touching upon the sub
ject Of social insurance.
One man was killed In industry Ii
Massachusetts every six hours las
year.
Halifax (New Brunswick) carpen
tiers were increased to As cents al
hour.