The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Toronto (Canada) Builders Labor
ers' union has 800 members at thu
front.
In France the working time Of fe
male munition workers is ten hours {
day.
St. Louis (Mo.) aldermen have In
creased the pay Of city workmen tt
conform with union scales.
The American Red Cross has glyer
100000 francs to assist In fightini
| the epidemic of Spanish influenza Ii
| Switzerland.
On the recommendation of the Law
committee each member Of the Amer
| lean Federation of Labor win be as
sessed l per cent during the period 81
the war, state bodies SIS and centra
bodies $40.
Announcement is made by Canada's
food board that as a result of the en-
rollment week for the soldiers Of the
soil, more than 10000 boys have been
secured in Ontario and the four west
ern provinces.
Eager to take advantage of the SUI
preme courts invalidation of the child
labor law, hundreds of mill, mine and
factory owners are preparing to re-
cruit minor children where unprotect
ed by state laws.
Employees Of the Holyoke Mass
Glazed Paper and Card company
numbering $50, struck for an increase
Of % per cent in wages and reduc,
ton from So to so working hours {
week. The strikers are not organized
Madison (Wis.) Federated Trades
council has appointed a special com.
mittee to "study the various schemes
for cooperative stores and Other
forms of consumers enterprises which
result in reducing the prices of gof
to the consumer"
The striking EMPLOYEES Of the s. '-TTsi
q 'wess0n company, Springfield, Mas;
| In mass meeting, unanimously voted
to place their cause in the handsIof
President Wilson or his representa-
tive and to abide by the decision Of
such arbitrator.
The night shifts of machinists and
toolmakers in Newark, N. j., and vicin.
ity which comprise about 30 per cent
Of the men who recently went on
strife, returned to work following the
promise Of the war department to Sc.
cure for them a raise in pay.
The strike Of letter carriers, which
left Toronto and Winnipeg without
mail service for many days, and
which spread to score Of other Cana
dian cities, ended after a conference In
Ottawa between representatives Of til,
men and the Dominion cabinet.
The war labor board denied the re
quest of eight metal manufacturing in
dustries at Waynesboro, Pa, for re
hearing of the decision granting 3.O0t
employees increased wages ranging
from 40 to 10 cents an hour. An ex
aminer Of the board will determine the
classification of workers.
The sailing of feet of steamers
from Boston was held up by a strike
of coal trimmers. They asked for "a
cents an hour, an Increase of 10 cents
The brotherhood of Railway Car
men reports that A new lodges were
established during the month of Octo
Der, being more than In any preceding
month In its history.
Garage repairmen, helpers, automo
bile washers and polishers formed the
first union of its character in Chicago
under the title Of the American Unity
Garage union. It's chief purpose will
be to standardize the scale of wages
and make six days the standard week
Of labor. Washers are to receive $2s
week, polishers, $3.50, foormer
$50, and repairmen 70 cents an hour
The day, under the union rules, is to
consist Of nine hours. 1t was an
nounced that representatives of sc
garages were present at the first meet.
ing.
Resolutions protesting against the
section Of the last civil appropria
ton bill providing that no money ap.
propriated for wages nor fixed by stat
ute shall be available to pay wages
in excess Of the standard determined
by the war labor policies board were
passed by the Chicago Federation Of
Labor.
Differences between striking street
car conductors and motormen and the
Georgia Railway and Power company
which have resulted in paralysis Of
the transport system, are settled.
Three hundred and twenty-five help
ers working at the Chicago & Altor
shops at Bloomington. H., went or
strike when they failed to get an in
crease In wages. It Is feared thai
President Bierd, federal manager o.
the Chicago & Alton, acting through
Secretary McAdoo, will order the en-
tire shops closed. Two Thousand
five hundred men would be thrown GU
! OF work If the shops closed.