The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-14
MINOR LABOR NOTES

A 5O-hour law for women and chill
dren was defeated in the recent SEES
sion of the Massachusetts legislature.
Construction of the largest coal dis
tributing pier in New York harb0y, to
have been used in handling nextY'rin-
ter's fuel supply for the metrop1I Than
district, has been halted by a pike
of union workmen. They walked aut,
according to officials in charge IAthe
work, because nonunion men werAb EN-
ployed. The federal department la
Dor was notified Of the situation.IE
Employees of the Ross Gear sad
Tool company, Lafayette, Ind, were
notified that the working hours in fu-
ture would be half an hour less each
day, and that time and half allow
ance would be granted for all hours
work in excess of Al hours a week. In
addition fiat increase on all hourly
service will take effect. 1t was said
that employees also will continue to
receive premiums on production the
III GILL luSI lHOutl1 W ID
per cent of the gross wages.
A strike of $50 mechanics employed
at the Watertown (Mass) arsenal be-
gan when Col. Charles M. Wesson,
commanding officer, refused to grant
wage schedule demanded by the
men. The men want the same wage
schedules as approved by the United
States shipping board, which range
from 81 to $1,000 day. The MAXI
mum wage at WATERFOWL, the men
say, is $5.76 a day.
Lancashire's cotton industry but
look has been considerably brightkned
as the result of the meeting o& the
heard at eoptsol ~ liittr Il, =.
oral al. G Gapt Barry is the son Of r..
the board of trade in London. Ehf ar.
rangements made will abolish the fota.
ton system of unemployment on An.
gust 10, substituting better system
and providing for payment for forced
unemployment.
The National Conduit and Cable
company, Hastings-on-Hudso N. I.
announced that all workers on al
hourly rate would be paid on 48
, hour-a-week basis, with time and
half for all overtime. Day shift work
ers will work 81 hours and be paid fol
81, while night shift workers will pu
in go hours and be paid for 66 hours.
All employees of the Washington
Virginia railway have been given al
E increase in pay. Trainmen receive al
5 advance of 2 cents an hour and cleri
l cal and other employees get an ad
2 vance of s per cent. The increase wa
: granted because of the increased cos
i of living. 1t will mean an added $40
: 900 a year on the pay roll.
t Establishment of minimum wag
and a system of collective bargainin
: for employer and employees, togethe
d with a general increase in wages, fes
e ture the decision of the war labG
e board in the case Of the st. JOSEF
r (Mo.) Lead company. The compan
g produces one-ninth of all the lea
e mined in the country.
r While thousands of workers wei
returning to their homes, union mail
l. tenance electricians in five substatioI
n of the Cleveland Railway company CT
# off the current and went on strik
S. Street car traffic was paralyzed K
n nearly an hour.
% Three hundred thousand workfne
in the district Of Ivanco-V oznesens
s. Russia, have gone on strike. III
D, town is one Of the chief centers of Il
If Russian cotton industry, and there a
lie a number of large textile factori'
y there. N
Introduction of systems under whit
n British munitions makers are paid
Of piece-work has been responsible CHIEF
It, for the abnormal production achiev'
I'd by hundreds of munitions plants
Manchester. There has been little SCI
ia Gus trouble between employers 81
)0 workmen.
m An agreement has been reached
in the department of labor with 7
unions and operators In the oil a.
er gas fields of Louisiana and coast
st Texas for adjustment of disputes
arbitration during the war.
NJ When the British Trades Union &C
of gress meets at Derby in Septemt
an for it's annual conference the mernb
ship Of affiliated unions represent
ID probably will be more than 10000
Sc An increase of % cents a day
machine operators and so cents d
nd for floor men and ad men employed
be newspapers has been secured by
Eugene (Ore.) Typographical union
as Since 1914 the women employed
trans, buses and railways in Engla
da have increased 1926 per cent.
An arbitration board raised wa
In of Seattle and Tacoma street car I
ployees four cents an hour.