The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-04-13
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Garment Workers who struck at Chi.
cago returned to work, the manufac.
furers having granted a 10 per cent
increase In wages. About 1900 who
worked for contractors employed by
the manufacturers remained on strike.
me contractors, It was charged, were
trying to compel the manufacturers to
pay a greater advance 10 them than
was given the employees.
Organized labor will ask the Chi.
cago city council TO pass an ordinance
compelling city officials to DO all de-
partment work in municipal shops.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor will
prepare the ordinance. Resolutions
adopted say that only $4,000 was APP
propriated to run the municipal shops,
which turned out 1926, 900 In work In
1915 and $e22,000 In 1917.
Members and officials Of the Chi.
cago branch Of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Of America Endorsed
the manifesto Of the national officers
In seconding the formal approval Of
the war aims as enunciated by the in.
terallied labor council, the war aims
stated by President Wilson and de.
claring sympathy for the war for de-
mocracy
On account Of lack Of oil for fuel.
part OF the plant Of the international
Paper company at LiveYmore Falls,
Me-, was closed for an indefinite pc.
Rod, throwing 300 employees out Of
work. Ten machines Of the newsprint
department and the sulphite wood
plants. run by water power. were not
affected.
The women, OF Allegheny county,
Pa.l want to be aviatrices, butchers,
ACTRESSES and detectives, but they
don't want to be munitions workers.
OuY OF 5000 women, only ten seem
eyet remotely interested In shrapnel,
bortbs and fuses: just 80 have had
TRAPPING and "a have only the intent.
representatives Of every variety Of
putfic employee In the state appeared
bef4re the senate civil service commit
tee2at Albany to urge favorable action
on sSrybill Of Senator JameslJ. Walker
of = York, giving dismissed civil
| ser Employees the right to appeal
= sarts.
Negotiations requiring inclusion In
eveSy contract for war construction
Of clause limiting the daily service
Of orkmen engaged IN such work
to light hours have been suspended
for the. duration Of the present emer-
gendy. the war department. announced.
Organization Of the street car men
at Topeka, KAN, began when fifty mo-
tormen and conductors employed by
| the Topeka Street Railway company
signed applications for membership in
I a local union of which John linn was
elected president.
Secretary McAdoo has called on
American labor not to object If the
nations war policy Of conserving
credit results in curtaIled building op-
erations, but to seek some other kind
of employment If necessary as a pa
triotic duty.
-Four dollars day for pick-and-
shovel men is being demanded by the
laborers employed in Norwich, Conn.
They are now receiving $2.75 to 1925
a day. Formerly street laborers
throughout the state received $1.5O
a day.
Thirty thousand textile workers,may
become idle in Fall River, Mass. as
result Of a strike called by the fire
men In 100 cotton mills. The mentd de-
mand an eight-hour day, without re-
duction In wages, and closed shop.
The men in the workshops of the
Austrian railways have struck and re-
fused to obey the orders of the mill
tary to return to- work, the Berlin Lo-
kal Anzeiger states. The strike; 1t is
added, Is spreading to other factories.
Ten thousand persons employed, by
the Liggett &Myers Tobacco company
In st. Louis struck for an eight-hour
day, Increased pay and recognition of
the union. Twelve industries were af-
fected by the strike.
The largest notice of increase of
stock to be filed in along time came
from the McKeesport Tinplate COM
pany Of McKeesport,, which raised its
stock from $3,00O0O0 to $1O,0OO,OOO.
According to British government
statistics recently compiled 1t takes five
women to do the work of fpur men In
| the munition factories.
CONSUMPTION Of wealth will be one
Of the main planks in the British Labor
party platform.
Oakland (Cal) municipal flremen
have formed a union and affiliated with
the A. f. Of L.
Casualty figures for, switchmen
show the percentage is greater than
| for the armies In Europa.
Chicago business men urgesincreased
pay for municipal employees,receiving
small wages.
The legislature Of Massachusetts has
provided for pioneer work. in va.
riety Of fields touching upon the sub.
ject of social insurance.
One man was killed inSindustry in
Massachusetts, every six hours last
! year.
Halifax New Brunswick) carpen.