The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-01-19
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

| clerks employed IN more than S,UUU
delicatessen shops in New York city
went on strike to enforce demand
for increased wages and shorter work.
ing hours. Officials of the union as
sert that $500 non-union clerks struck
in sympathy with the 1900 members
of the union. Owners of the shops
declared that the strike had not inter
fered greatly with their business.
Preparations for greater governments
tai aid in adjusting labor supply to
war needs were put under way In
Washington by the Council of National
Defense with the appointment of T..
G. Marshall, dean of the school of com,
merce and administration of the Uni.
versity of Chicago, us chief of newly
created section on industrial service.
Proposals for a substantial advance
in wages for the eighty thousand mem
bers of the International Molders'
union were before the Stove Founders
Defense association at the opening of
its annual meeting at Atlantic City,
N. J. The decision was reached by the
executive committee of the union.
which concluded Its deliberations.
Nineteen young women made their
appearance on Broadway as street
railway conductors, filling the vacan-
cies represented by as many blue stars
on the service flag of the New York
railway company. The young women
are uniformed In blue skirts and rath-
er mannlsh coats, with caps like those
of the men conductors.
Clerks in the coal mining depart
ment of the Lackawanna Mining com.
pany are to receive from to 20 per
cent increase in salaries beginning
January l. Station employees and
clerks will also receive wage advances.
Several thousand men and women In
Scranton and vicinity will profit.
Virtual completion of one of the gov
ernment's three great fabricating steel
merchant ship plants within 76 daysS
time was reported to the federal ship
ping board. The yard, erected at New
ark Bay by the Submarine Boat cor
poration, will soon lay the keels of
three ships.
Industrial peace in important manu-
| featuring districts about Bridgeport,
Conn.,, resulted from the settlement of
the strike Of 1000 employees of the
Locomobile company by one of the de-
partment's medlators. It was the big
gest strike that has occurred in the
| district.
Demanding an immediate salary i'm
crease of 20 per cent, double pay for
overtime and the recognition Of seven
| hours night work as the equivalent of
eight hours day work, 1900 postal en-
ployees formed permanent organiza-
ton at mass meeting at Cleveland.
Demands Of Chicago & Alton tele-
graph operators, agents and tower men
for approximately 10 per cent increase
in pay were declined by the manage
ment following q conference. The men
have declined an offer of a 5 per cent
increase.
Bakers and all building trades work.
men except bricklayers went on strike
in sympathy with the central girls Of
the Bell Telephone company at Fort
Smith, Ark, who have been out two
months and half.
Last year unorganized stationary en-
gineers in Tacoma, Wash, worked IA
hours day. They have organized
since that time and are now working
eight hours day and have increased
wages.
A committee to secure information
about mine conditions and insure In
creased protection to miners in this |
district has been organized by the va
rious locals of miners at Springfield
III.
California State Industrial Accident |
commission has ruled that "tips" are
part of walters pay and that COM
pensation benefits must be figured on
wages paid and "tips" received.
The Order Of Railroad Telegraphers
has asked the Wells Fargo company
for 10 per cent commissions for its l.
400 members employed on the Missouri
Pacific railroad system.
Electrotypers' union at Springfield,
Mass, has secured a two-year agree
ment. Wages are increased 50 a week
the first year and an additional 81
week the second year.
Printers employed on English news
papers In Montreal, Canada, have
raised wages So week for day work
$3.50 for night work. Piece work has
been abolished.
In the third year of New York's COM
pensation law, ended last June, there
were $500 cases, as compared with
10000 the first year and $4,000 the Sec
ond.
The mail carriers throughout the
country are uniting to ask for more
wages.
Fur workers at Minneapolis have
secured the union shop and the "a
hour week.