The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-01-26
City BOYS MAKE
GOOD ON FARMS
thousands Now Employed Are of
Great Help to the Nation in
Winning the War.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE AT END
Cancellation Board Raises Wages OF
Canadian Pacific Employees to
Meet Increased Cost of Living
General Labor News.


"City boys have made good on the
farms contrary to the general Deiiet
.fhot a bow bred in the city Is OF no use
n the farmer" declared William u.
,-1,ll national director of the United
M,tas Boys Working reserve, an Or
pohization fostered by the department
odlabor. Many thousands of boys all
ofer the country have qualified for
membership in the working reserve,
Jnose primary purpose is to mobilize
fbe boys of the nation between the ages
If sixteen and twenty-one so that they
Ian help in the war by working instead
If nlaving or doing unimportant work,
II a., Food Administrator Herbert
Hmyer in a statement to the depart
rneut of labor regarding the boys OF
fbs working reserve said: by the
ereat service they have rendered to
their country during the first eight
mo9ths of the war they have formed a
men in the fighting line"
ss A board of Cancellation, which has
INQUIRED into dispute between the
6nanndian Pacific and its station agents.
teeNpher and linemen, recommends
that the pay Of these classes be IN
creased not less than IS per cent and
that the pay of train dispatchers be
Increased not less than II per cent. 1t
is recommended that the road discon-
tinue the payment of higher wages to
men in western Canada. The en-
ployees had asked for an increase of
% DER cent, citing statistics compiled
BY the department of labor showing
that, since 1918, the cost OF living had
advanced more than 80 per cent.
Government communicating of steel
in Eastern plants has resulted in the
Utah Copper company laying off GOO
men engaged in charging the COM
pany's plant at Magma. Owing to gov
eminent demands, it was reported that
Eastern steel companies were unable
to fill orders, the Utah Copper COM
pany being among the sufferers. WORK
Ion the construction of the Deseret Ma
ao| banks history building at Salt
sfiE CITY, has also been halted on &C
~ Il. afysteel ordered being held up II
sAeEs \, .-.
n 1.-THE twenty-frst convention Of the
United Brewery Workmen Of America
closed at Houston, Tex, to meet agar
vt Milwaukee In September, 1920. Dele
gates named to the American Fedora
ton of Labor conventions were JohI
Sullivan, New York; Joseph Obergfell
Joseph Proebstle and Albert Kruger o
Cincinnati. Present international of
ficerS were renominated.
In London, England, classes for tn
training Of women in skilled branche
Of engineering offer eight and min
week courses. At the end of the frs
two or three weeks a preliminary ties
IS given, and to those who pass cred
ltably a maintenance allowance
paid for the remaining weeks Of tn
course.
Women will fill vacancies In tn
ranks of street car conductors In 5
Louis as fast as they occur after jar
nary 1. Present men employees ar
not to be discharged to make way fo
the women, but no more men will b
hired. Women will receive the sam
pay as men.
f! That their male ticket agents ma
be relieved from usual duties and n
place men who went to the armies
the Union Pacific railroad will plac
woman ticket agents, at all importaI
ticket offices Of that road throughor
the country.
If. M. Bethel, vice president of tn
New York Telephone company, al
nounced an increase in the salaries
'9se company's employees. This II
crease would, he said, amount to MOI
than double the bonus payment mac
last year.
The United States shipping boal
has opened shipbuilding school
Newport News. Workmen from ste
| shipyards In all sections of the cou
try will attend.
j Frank Harrington, president or Il
/ Illinois United Mine Workers
America, and all but one Of the mil
union officials of the state have bee
reelected.
An immediate effort will be made
organize mattresses, stenographer
telephone workers, cracker and co
| fectionery workers and all other indu
| trial lines in Philadelphia, Pa.
n George w. Musser of Chicago WI
appointed commissioner of mediate
and cancellation to go to Houston
help adjust the strike of several tho
sand oil men.
Michael +. Greene Of Orange, N.
has been elected president of the I'm
ed Hatters Of North America, defet
Ing President John w. Sculley of M
walk.
Plans were announced by the COVER
ment for the immediate constructi
Of 5000 buildings to house workmen
the Hog Island, Philadelphia, shl
yards.
Since January /, 1917, more TIL
roo local unions-one-third Of t
membership of the Brotherhood
Painters, Decorators and Paperhan