The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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ganized a union.
Pullman car porters are to be re-
placed by women.
Street car men at Columbus, Ca,
have formed union.
Railroad Telegraphers' International
has a membership Of $4,000.
Carpenters at Vancouver, B. O., ask
$3.50 for an eight-hour day.
Salt Lake City, Utah, cooks and
mattresses have been granted a nine
hour day.
Thousands of women in Japan earn
their livelihood by working in the fields
or on the docks, loading ships.
Hundreds of women are working as
oxyacetylene welders In. large NUM-
ton factory located in California,
New Haven Comm bartender's
union has secured new agreement
with minimum rate of $25 week.
British engineering and shipbuildins
trades unions have asked for an adj
vance in wages Of 100 per cent above
pre-war rates. sa
The food committee Of Enfield, Eng
land, has protested against no supple
mentary rations being granted to the
women munition workers..
Investigation of the shortage Of farm
labor, said to have become serious in
many parts of the middle West and
other agricultural regions, to meet the
emergency will be undertaken by a
committee representing the larger
farm organizations.
The appointment of Fred Hewitt, ed.
| tor 81 the Machinfsfs Journal, as sue
cessor to the late Thomas j. Savage,
to act as alternate on the war labor
| board for William H. Johnston, presi-
dent of the International Association
Of Machinists, was announced.
Although they had ignored an ear
lier request Of the war labor board to
return to work, striking pressfeeders
| whose walkout resulted In the tying uI
of many trade and job presses in New
York, have agreed to return to work
and to abide by decision of the
board.
The striking street car conductor:
and motorlnen of the international
Railway company at Buffalo ratified
an agreement entered into by their Of
fcials and representatives Of the com
pany. Operation of the cars, began
Immediately, and the men left thu
meeting place at 80 p. m. to prepare
their cars for regular runs 1t wal
the twenty-third day Of the strike.
/ An award Of the war labor board il
the labor controversy at ethe Genera
| Electric company's plant at Lynn
Mass, provides for adoption OF TN
scale Of hours and wages already ap
proved at the Schenectady plant, wag
changes to be retroactive to July II
and orders the reinstatement of IL EN-
ployees discharged before strike a
Lynn last summer.
Application of the order barrln
women from employment as conductor
by the Cleveland Railway company ha
been deferred from November to De
cember / by Secretary of Labor WI
son. The department. of labor vii
frame ruling that will guide employ
ment of women in all industries, 1t !
announced by A. L. Faulkner, Unite
States commissioner Of Cancellation.
The wage dispute between the en-
ployers and employees in the Scottis
printing and kindred trades was Sc
tied recently at joint meeting Q
both sides in Edinburgh. Some tim
ago the employees federation put fol-
ward demand for weekly increas
!. OF los. ($250) for all workers In tn
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, an
| Dundee districts. This demand wa
refused by the employers, who offel
ed an increase of Is. Cd. weekly
male workers and Is. cd. weekly to f
male workers. On a ballot vol
this offer was refused by the empIo.
ees. At the subsequent joint meetin
after prolonged sitting, 1t was agree
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! week to male workers and IS. Cd. e
cents) per week to female,
What is claimed to be worlds ri
citing record was announced by Gree
Lakes Engineering works at Detrol
Percy Balloon, employed In the Ecor'
shipbuildng yard of tie company, 4
] ished 1910 seven-eighths rivets In
g seyen-and- one-half hour working day.
A demand for n new wage scale
T S10ia week for beginners and a mi
q imum of $22 after four years servi
y was presented TO the New Engial
|. Telephone & Telegraph company
I the telephone operators union. II
r present scale is So for beginners. wi
e d maximum Of $40 after seven yea
cs service.