The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-30
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

prices.
3 An advance of So per week and an
increase of Is cents for overtime has
been gained by Kansas City (M6)
Bakers union.
Agricultural workers in West Glou-
cestershire, England, are threaten
ing to strike unless they are
paid S11,25 a week.
In Sweden the trade unions have
increased their membership 1894 in
year. OF 1S6,158 members, 14,4O2
are women and girls.
Belfast shipbuilders have achieved
worlds record in completing an
S,000-ton standard ship in 10 days
after she was launched.
Canadians are discussing the ques-
tion of having aliens now in intern
ment camps in Canada employed on
the highways of Canada.
A large number of the employees Of
the Londonderry & Loughswilly Gre
land) railway went out on one Gays
strike as q protest against conscrip-
ton.
For the benefit of housewives who
cannot leave their homes the Illinois
food conservation department is us
ing visiting housekeepers to go to
them to teach the use Of new substi-
tute flours.
Right of approximately 100000 en-
ployees in shipyards controlled by the
Emergency Fleet corporation to organ
lie trade unions and right of en-
ployers to form similar organizations
is recognized by, the corporation.
Desire for reform of the workmen's
compensation laws of the state has led
to the organization of smaller mine
operators into the Arizona Mining
Mems association, with Charles 4.
Reiniger of Tucson as president.
Seventy thousand miners of the cen
trail Pennsylvania bltuminous coal
fields have voted to work Sundays to
overcome the falling off in production
dlaa>to the Spanish influenza epidemic,
Fuei Htfrnfn1srrat0r Garfield an
nounced.
Presentation of honor badges to q
300 workers who made production rec
ords in the building of the wooden
cargo carriers Folsom and Tolo was
feature of the launching of the twin
ships at the yards of the Foundation
comDany Mt Kearny N T.
-Four large steel working plants that
will entail an expenditure of $15,0OO,'
600 will be erected in Duluth, Mimi,
at the termination of the war. This
results from a recent conference be-
tween Duluth interests and Judge Ell
bert III. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel corporation.
Believing that shuttle kissing in
cotton mills, an operation performed
by weavers every two minutes, spreads
infection and is largely responsible
for the recent influenza epidemic, the
Blackburn (EnglandD Weavers' ASSOC
citation has appointed deputation to
wait on the medical officer of health
to discuss the subject.
Awards in controversies in the cases
of ten street railway companies and
their employees were announced by
the war labor board. Wages were at
issue in six cases, and in each in
creases were granted the men. The
cities where increased wages were
granted are Philadelphia, Kansas City,
Portland. Ore, Dayton, o., New Or
leans and Brooklyn.
Employees of the Chicago packing
houses are demanding q minimum
wage Of 65 cents an hour. A confer
ence Of representatives of the work
men with the packers has failed to
bring about a settlement, but efforts
are being made to adjust the dispute
without taking the matter to the war
labor board at Washington, it was
stated at the office of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Labor
Approximately $50 Bay City employ
ees of the Saginaw Shipbuilding COM
pany at Carrollton refused to go to
work when the car which was to have
\ transported them was late. At pro-
test meeting in Wenonah Park the
men voted unanimously to return to
work after they were appealed to by
William Brennan, national organizer
of the Shipbuilders of America, and
were promised by Herbert Armstrong,
representing the company, that they
would not hereafter be locked when
late because of transportation difficult
| ties.
Skilled metal workers in Leipzig,
Germany, get 80 cents an hour. A few
pieceworkers earn as much as 47h
cents an hour
To work at some essential industry
or to work for the city at the work
| farm is now the only choice of the
unemployed able-bodied men at Du-
Iuth, MINI. This is the notice served
on the mayor and the commissioner of
public safety by Judge J. f. McGee,
state fuel administrator, through in
structions from the state public safety
| commission. The police began arrest
ing men up to the age of fifty-five not
| einployed In. essential industries.