The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-02-02
NEW INDUSTRIES FOR MOBILE
Institution Of Big shlpyard Leads to
Investments of Importance to
Southern City.

came known that H. A. Stone & Co.,
corporation financiers Of Philadelphia,
had purchased a large tract Of land |
near the shipyard. 1t is understood
the land Is to be used by industrial
enterprises.
Work at the great plant of the Fore
River Shipbuilding company, which
has been badly crippled by a strike,
has been resumed. The three labor
organizations concerned responded to
an appeal to their patriotism by AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin
D. Roosevelt and voted amid demon
STATIONS to return at once to WORK
and leave the matters In dispute to be
arbitrated by Henry B. Endicott, exc
cutive manager of the Massachusetts
committee on public safety.
What we need is a law empowering
the president to designate those occu-
pations in which it shall not be law
full for capital to declare lockout or
labor to declare a strike, until after
public investigation Of the causes OF
dispute. That takes away from labor
no right that is not incompatible with
the public veal in this national emer-
gency.-New York Evening Mail.
| After being idle for years, the for
mer plant of the Patterson Bros. Pot
terry company, Wellsvile, O., has just
been placed In operation by the Ster'
ling China company, which Is COM
posed of local, East Liverpool and
Newell wv. va.) men. The firm will
make vitreous hotel china, and Will
J give employment to rs potters.
The average increase in wages In
industry in Germany up to the end OF
, 1916 may be reckoned to be about 25
. per cent, says the British Board Of
Trade Labor Gazette. According to OF
} fetal statistics, food prices were lit
per cent higher In June, 1917, than II
: July, 1914.
Street car fares at Toledo, O., mus
: be increased If the car men are to re
ceive higher pay. This was the ultima
= tum of Henry L. Doherty, controlling
1 director Of the Toledo Railways 4
e Light company, after a conference
with representatives Of the car men
e union.
O Striking miners Of the Hurst an
Il the Home coal companies at Deer
# water, Mo-, returned to work, follow
ing arrangements for conference De
y tween the employers, representative
10 of the men and Of the federal fu'
m administration at Kansas City.
ID James Maurer, president Of the Stat
Federation of Labor, in Philadelphi
said at the first conference of IL
m Women's Trade Union league that
n. opposed the employment Of women
wv the iron and steel mills and coke "a
id tories in the place of men.
OF Answering a Kansas City raiiw
to company's advertisement, so won
he applied for positions as street car CO
is ductors. They were told that If 9
oh cepted they would be required to we
Or. gray coat, short khaki skirt, le
e- gins and conductors cap.
of Master mechanics and quarterms
he tiers In the Charlestown navy yar
ng near Boston, now receive 500 q wee
III Announcement recently was made sa
in ing that their pay had been increas
cd to that figure for the duration Of t
ar war.
D. Forty-eight Of the S84 information
organizations operating In Canada al
or affiliated with the American Fedei
a ton of Labor have also affiliated the
". Canadian membership, numbering D
es 755, with the Trades and Labor Ca
ID. gress.
of Anthracite mine workers In distr
Its No. 1, Scranton. Pa, have agreed
ne increase their working day from eig
lie to nine hours. The estimated da
increase in production will be betwe
ire 10000 and $4,000 tons.
he More than $50 pro-German mine
he have been rounded up in the Him
get coal districts, it was announced at
nd Louis, Secret service agents W.
Ire rushed to mining camps, following e
ee- dence of widespread German pro
100 ganda.
Ike. The strike of cigarmakers at :
a Juan, Porto Rico. has Gbeen sett
IN through an agreement under which
the cigarmakers will receive more tt
E a S5O0OOO annually in increased wag
,ed More than 5000 cigarmakers are
Ow fected.
The strike on the Cleveland, Sou
.ib- western & Columbus Electric railrt
md lines was ended, the employees y
cen ing to return to work under the
ms, listing contract and without an incre
the In wages.
raj Fifty-eight per cent of the 81
workers in this country, 81 per cent
oxi- the coal workers, 81 per cent of
,er- textile workers and Y per cent OF
one garment workers are Of foreign bi
the Violence is marking the strike In
De- Peruvian petroleum fields. In a 8
mish between strikers and soldiers
NM casualties occurred.
for The st. Louis & San Franci
the railroad has finally signed an eli
at hour agreement with Its fedora
shopmen.
rec An increase of TO per cent In
les, wages of railway clerks and tie
an raphers has been granted by the
Louis Southwestern railway (Co'
rth- Paltl