The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-16
MINOR NEWS OF LABOR

Photographers at Seattle, Wash,
have formed a union.
Average daily wages in Germany's
metal industry are $1.32.
Membership In independent labor
unions In Canada totals 1891.
Female membership In British trade
unions increased 130,352 in 1916.
In France the working time of fe-
male munition workers is ten hours a
day.
The first annual meeting of the Irish
Clerical Workers union was held re-
Gently.
A new union of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen has been formed in
Buffalo.
Of the total men called to the col
ers in this country $4,000 were found to
be tubercular. ... .....
The union of woman employees of
the bureau of engraving and printing
formed recently has grown to $3.50.
Farm laborers in the county of Dub
lin, Ireland, are demanding an in
crease Of $3.50 week in their wages.
During the last six years organized
street car men in Chicago have re-
ceived more than $75O,00O in benefits.
British farm laborers are to have a
half-holiday, this making their ordi-
nary working week one of five and one
half days.
The majority of railroad workers in
Japan are women who are doing ev-
elything except running and firing the
engines.
Portland, Oregon, is the only city on
the Pacific coast that still clings I'd
the old 24-hour idea of working its
fire fighters.
Cleveland taxicab companies have
dispensed with men chauffeurs and
now depend exclusively upon women
to run their machines.
Before the war there were 177,OO0
mine workers in the anthracite indus
try. The number has been drawn
Gown to about $4,000 now.
Marine strikes on United States
ships are barred for the duration Of
the war by new agreement between
owners and the engineers union.
A union of the Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees has been
completed Of the track repairers of the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad.
Birmingham (Ala.) central body and
State Federation of Labor have ruled
that every delegate must have at least
three labels on his person before he
will be seated.
There are on file now with the state
department of labor and industry as
surances from $4,000 Pennsylvania en-
ployers that they will give employ
ment to crippled men.
The national war labor board ia
vors the adoption of dividing line be-
tween the war industries in which wom-
en- should be employed and those in
which they should not.
Officers of the California oil well
workers unions have notified Presi-
dent Wilson that they can develop
and operate the government lands in
controversy with oil companies
New Jersey will soon have vocation
al schools throughout the state, where
men Of other vocations not essential
to the war will be taught the machin-
list trade or such part thereof to help
win the war.
Thirty-five thousand girls, most of
whom are government workers, will
be fed daily by the Young Woman's
Christian association at It's various
cafeterias when it opens its new house
in Washington.
The Standard Oil company of Cali
fornia has announced an advance of
10 per cent In wages Of all employees
in all departments, taking effect Oc-
tober l. This advance does not, how
ever, affect those earning more than
$4,000 year.
The state council of defense has Is
sued an order fixing daily wage scale
In South Dakota. The order provides
that ten hours of field work shall con-
stitute standard day. The order
shall not apply to permanent labor
hired by the month or year.
Train service on the Missouri &
North Arkansas railway was interrupt
ed pending the settlement of a shop
mems strike, according to announce
ment made here. The strikers de-
manded the government scale of wages
and back pay since January 1.
In its operation of the telegraph and
Telephone systems Of the country the
post office department will make no
distinction between nonunion and
union employees, according to an or
Ger from Postmaster General Burleson
received at New York. Employment
will be granted, the order stated,
solely on the fitness of applicants.