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

Toronto, CANADA, has 10 local
unions.
Fire fighters at Toronto, Canada,
have formed union.
Dredgemen's union of California has
secured an eight-hour day.
Union coal beavers at San Francisco
are paid 80 cents an hour.
Journeymen Tailors' international
has membership Of $4,000.
Portsmouth, N. H., metal trades
have opened cooperative store.
Union bakers of Los Angeles, CAL,
ask increased wages and recognition
of the union.
The City Council of Montreal, Can
ada, has passed an order to prevent
strikes Of all kinds.
A bill is under consideration for a
minimum wage for woman workers
in the District of Columbia.
School teachers of Rowley Regis
Staffordshire, England, quit work re-
Gently because of low wages.
Equal pay for men and women on
similar work is advocated by the
American Federation of Labor.
Charges are now made that the In
ternational union movement was sub
sidized by powerful German enemies.
Irish munition workers who came
back from England when the conscrip-
ton act was passed are now returning
to England.
y In the year 1917, the last for which
statistics are available, 1906 miners
gave up their lives while digging coal
to win the war.
Railroad telegraphers probably will
receive soon a wage increase of be.
tween 500 and $25 month, it was
said by railroad administration Off
Gals.
Plans for the organization Of ma
tional federation of manufacturers
councils, to meet wartime and after
the-war emergencies, have been an
nounced.
Since April 1 eight unions of paint.
ers, decorators and paperhangers have
been organized in Canada, all of them
affiliated with their international or
ganization.
During the year ended June 30, 1915
wages amounting to $50, 576 623.42 were
paid to 4S,5SS employees on both rail-
ways and tramways in New South
Wales. Australia.
A strike went into effect on all the
lines of the International railway at
Buffalo and in nearby cities and towns
The tie-up was complete, the company
making no effort to move cars.
According to an investigation Ct the
Federation of German Textile Work.
ers, the average weekly wage of fe.
male workers in the ABORT district was
1892 marks ($3.79) in July, 1917.
Miss Elizabeth Christman, for six
years general secretary-treasurer OF
the International Glove Workers
union, has been appointed chief OF
women investigators of the national
war labor board.
AS a war memorial to labor the
British trade union congress and Ia
Dor party will build a S1,500,000 head
quarters in London, with library
restaurant, conference hall, accommo'
dation for delegates and offices Ior
various unions.
Since the commencement of the war
the time whistle has been abolished in
most of the lumber mills and camps in
the Pacific Northwest. The men now
go to work in the morning and cease
work in the evening with the raising
and lowering of the American flag.
Altogether there are 1874 local
branches in Canada, 1,702 comprising
members affiliated with international
organizations, 244, with 32,343 mem
bers, being connected with non-inter-
national bodies and %, with 1891
members, being independent units.
The agricultural wages board, estab-
Iished for England and Wales under
the corn production act of 1917, have
given notice that they propose to fix
minimum time rates of wages for male
workers of IS years of age and over
in Norfolk and in Northamptonshire on
the basis of minimum rate of Dos
($7.30).