The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-03-16
GENERAL LABOR EEas

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/ plants lodged win The Hin
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-3o1-Gs q 1917 against ezw
aga1czes have b,een adjusted
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+. til refunds II nearly s1-5G0.
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have Eeld agencies il caeck '
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vantage # TIE Ignorant or
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erase h-s t.aea granted f11s
q The Bal1i1g-e copper w0
I csrL1g 70 Tie announcement
eo-qa1T. Il Affects, principe
hozr Eg-Eers q TIE unskIIlesd
. ar-d TeErese1tE an approximate Z
ce1V 4azeGse. Abq1t 2500
affected - the raise.
Striking employees of tia Dzg
I building cs51pany. Pensacola. Fla r.
1 turned 10 work when their dfGereness
were adjusted By Cooeiiiator Bird
well Of the labor Department. SeyeraI
hundred mechanics On goverurneat
/ contracts we're affected.
Il frs annual report the FEDERAL Fk-
reau II mines says that more thkl
so miners In . states were trainE
/ IN nine resc1e and frst-aid work r.
/ ing the past year. The total nunutAr
trained By the bureau since its
gaEization is 4G-SI3.
One hundred and fifty Of the ne
members Of the Dallas TEX fire
F. Tartment we4t On strike recenft.
I Tie strike Eas caused By The susp4
'@C- - y members who refused A.
withdrew f9 z leT
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! lGssJ per ceaE- about -.-yy s,,4s I. c.
are exported.
The strike IF Chicago 1noldsrs which
HIS tied Up most Of the Countries was
settled and the men win return to
work. They wanted an Increase Of ST.
q day and were given 20 certs at once
and viii receive 25 cents more on
April I.
Ten thousand girls, members Of the
international ladies' Garment Wo-k-
ers' union, quit york at New York, dc.
handing an 81 per cent increase in
wages for piece workers and s. a
week for week workers, also q 49-h0ur
week.
4 point On the credit side Of mum.
ton factories IS that in populous dis
tricts Of England they are helping TO
solve the stun problem by eliminating
the Sums, for as fast as factories
spring up and extend sluIns come down.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad announces that the semi-arl-
nual 10 per cent bonus to its unorgan-
lied employees viii be continued in
the form Of a straight salary increase,
payable monthly.
AT meeting Of officers Of the New
Jersey State Federation Of Labor and
its afiliates 1t was agreed that the
general assembly be asked to PISS
several laws beneficial to the work.
ers.
Printing employers in Beaver, Pa.
are accepting the new wage scale Of
the typographical union. Wages are
increased g to "a a week and contracts
viii continue for three years.
Metal tradeSmen in the Wyoming
valley, in Pennsylvania, have Increased
wages 10 per cent and reduced hours
~ ~ q |CIsAs 4 AAS lGSStiIs LlE WOEk
week five hours in many Instances.
Municipal fremen at Scranton, Pa
have asked the court to order the com-
mon council to increase wages at least
$50 year, as provided by an act DC
the state legislature.
Chicago building material dealers,
contractors and building trades unions
are organized to protest to the govern
ment against declaring building non
essential industry.
Boilermakers, machinists, black
smiths, car men and sheet metal work
ers employed by the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad have formed a system Of fed
Grafton.
The new war insurance system for
soldiers, sailors and members Of the
nurses corps has been extended to Il
100 officers and employees of the fed
eral lighthouse service.
Two hundred employees of the Cond-
IT Electric Manufacturing company in
South Boston struck because the com
pany refused to increase. their pay and
reduce their hours Of labor.
Eighty thousand women are serving
with the Red Cross ambulance afid
hospitals in France, Algeria, Morocco
and In fha 0rfant