The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-19
MINOR LABOR NOTES

Mayo county (Ireiand) council clerks
have been on strike for war bonus
Of $1.25 week.
Among the possibilities of the fu-
ture is the employment of women as
railway mail clerks.
The Railway Mail association is
composed of 100 locals and has total
membership Of boil.
San Francisco post Office Inspectors
department has its first woman clerk
in its 40 years of existence.
Queen Elena of Italy has given sew
eral thousand dollars of her personal
funds to help women workers in Italy.
Derbyshire (England) Miners assoc
citation has invested 100000 with
Rotterdam corporation and $4,000 In
war loan.
The minimum wage Of women in
mercantile establishments in Oregon
is $11.10 per week of not more than
fifty hours.
Power has been given to the agricul-
tural boards of Ireland to take pos
session Of unoccupied lands and lands
not properly cultivated.
The Yorkshire (Eng.) coal strike
came to an end, it was announced,
when the employers granted the de.
mands of the miners, who returned to
work.
officials of the department of labor
complain that private contractors are
refusing to cooperate with the gov
eminent in its plan Of securing and
distributing labor and as a conse-
quence are disorganizing the labor
| market.
4 The Topeka (Kan.) Railway COM
pany reached an agreement with it's
organized motormen and conductors.
Old rates of Fl to 26 cents an hour
during an eight-hotlr period have been
changed to a Decent minimum and a
31-cent maximum during a four-year
service.
Wage increases for the 1000 Office
employees of the Schenectady IN. ~
plant of the General Electric company
were announced by company officials,
to become effective at a date to be
! announced. Besides the 10 per cent
bonus which is to be considered as
wages, an additional 10 per cent will
be paid.
4 Employees of the Northwest Steel
company, one of the large steel ship
building plants at Portland, Ore, have
adopted two Belgian orphans. The
shipbuilders, Of whom there are about
four thousand in the plant, will CON
| tribute weekly from their wages for
the care, support and education of the
two children.
Four Sydney (Nova Scotia) col
| lieries, with a daily output of 2,00(
tons, are idle as the result Of strike
of miners precipitated by the with.
drawal of four of their fellow work
ers from the Amalgamated Mine
| Workers. The men resigned because
they had been promoted to official pc
sitions.
4 A recent semi-monthly pay at Indi
ana coal mines was the largest In ths
history of the industry in the state
upward Of S1,5O0,O00. 1t was for thu
coal mined in the half month endin&
4 August 10, the pay always being wha'
the miners call "a drag" of half {
month. There are $1,000 men in thu
200 mines, but 10000 Of them are il
one-fourth Of the 200.
i All one-time employees of the West
ern Union Telegraph company whit
were discharged, because of their aft
lliations with the Commercial Telegra
piers Union of America during tn,
recent difficulties between the com
pany and the union before the com
pany was taken over by the govern
ment will have the privilege of re
instatement, it was announced by tn
company.
Women employed In the munition
factories of Great Britain are com
K PEELED to wear khaki uniform.
; Speakers from all sections of Wis
consin will participate in the program
OF the International Association Of In
! dustrial Accident Boards to be he'll
: Fin Madison September 24-26. Meet
: ings will be held In the assembl
J chamber. Upward Of 300 delegate
: representing the different acciden
boards IN the United States and Car
I ada will attend the convention. Ere
+ M. Wilcox Of the Wisconsin. industrif
. commission is president Of the assoc
iation