The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Unskilled laborers in Russia are
paid $4.12 day.
A union of timber workers has been
formed at Amigo, Wis.
Arizona is importing Mexicans to
handle the cotton crop.
United Mineworkers has a Canadian
membership Of almost 5000.
Letter carriers throughout Canada
are to receive higher wages.
Of 215,222 organized workers In
Hungary, 1881 are women.
Firemen on Irish railroads have Sc
cured bonus of $3.10 week.
Canada had thirty-seven strikes in
May, involving 1853 workmen.
Of 125 unions in the province of
Manitoba, Canada, 70 are in Winni-
peg.
Membership of the Netherland Ma
tional Federation Of Trade Unions is
over 10000.
Brotherhood Of Carpenters have
$500 members In the province of On
tario, Canada. u
In one way or another, about 5,000,-
900 British women are working for
their country. .........
Centralia (Wash.) Typographical
union has just negotiated scale for
$3.50 per week.
1t is officially denied that Canada
contemplates the CONSUMPTION Of la
Dor, masculine or feminine.
Representatives of the British sea-
mems union are endeavoring to form
a new international federation.
Fifteen hundred Northumberland
(England) miners resumed work after
a strike which lasted one week.
Union labor is represented in the
South Australian parliament by seven
teen members-an increase of thir-
teen.
The British ministry of munitions
has ordered that the wages Of women
munition workers be increased $1.25
q week.
There is an actual shortage Of hous-
ing accommodations In Germany and
this shortage will probably be aggra-
waited after the war.
The strike Of 30 plumbers and
steamftters at the government nitrate
plant at Toledo, o., threatened to tie
up all work at the institution.
Farmers of yarmouth and Harlech,
England, refuse to employ German
prisoners as a protest against calling
up farm hands before the harvest.
There are 100000 British wage
earners now being paid from the pub
lie funds, either for service with the
colors or In munition work and other
war trades.
The national war labor board disap-
proves of the direct or Indirect en-
ployment on government contracts of
prisoners who have been sentenced to
hard labor.
The Clyde shipwrights declined to
resume work by 1920 votes to 526,
though officials of the Clyde (England)
committee also were present and rec
commended the men to go back.
A bill has been introduced in the
Brazilian congress providing for the
publication of a quarterly labor bull
letin to begin with the date Of the
definite organization Of the National
Department Of Labor.
The national war labor board or
dered the wages of journeymen paint
ers at indianapolis increased from 80
cents an hour to 65 cents, effective
until next March 81. The award was
in the dispute between the painters
and the Master Painters and Building
Contractors association.
Resenting the discharge of fellow
employee charged with having agitated
unionism, 60 girls employed in the
Brown-Evans overall factory at Sc
dalia, Mo-, walked out and took imme-
date steps to form local Of the
United Garment Workers of America.
Owing to low wages and alleged I'M
satisfactory working conditions, dis
satisfaction has been apparent some
time. A charter has been applied for.
Blacksmiths, butchers and other union
heads talked for the strikers and
agreed to assist the girls.
The bureau of labor statistics of the
federal department of labor has start
ed a countrywide probe of the high
cost of living. The findings will be
used as basis in making wage adjust
ments.
The American Federation of Labor
launched its initial step to organize
the 100000 steel workers in the United
States Steel corporation and independ-
ent plants In the Pittsburgh district
recently, when representatives of the
federation met with more than 800
delegates from two score labor unions
in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio
and West Virginia.