The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-05-25
WORKERS TO SHARE. PROFITS
National Cash Register Company
Makes Definite Announcement
Other Labor News.

NtlSii lSN-AotNi SOatk'cAA1 ~ AfthJ
ton, o., were agreeably surprised when
they were told they will be placed upon
profit-sharing basis. While the per-
centage they will be given has not been
announced President Patterson has
announced his general purpose to make
his employees his partners. The profits
sharing principle was first tried out BY
this company the first of last year
when it was applied to 35 department
heads.
Five thousand employees of the Har-
Ian plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuild.
ing corporation, acting on their own in
itiative at Liberty loan meeting
called by themselves, pledged a sob
scription of $250,000 to the loan cam
palgn. They have fixed two weeks as
the limit when all of the money must
be subscribed.
A Is per cent increase in wages re
Gently became effective for 100000
workers Of the United States Steel cor
poration plant. 1t was their sixth in
crease In two years. The company's
pay roll is increased $45 100000 there
by. The company took that means to
increase production.
Reports Of labor shortages In the
shipyards are exaggerated, Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board Is told in
letter from William Il. Hall, ma
tional director of the public service
reserve, who said more than 100000
mechanics have been enrolled for ship
yard work.
Our last census shows $40 different
vocations, but there are really 800 oc-
equations. In America 100 occupa-
tons are beyond the reach of the man
without high school and technical
training. There are 10 different
types Of engineering.
With the consent Of the union con-
cerned, small number of Chinese
seamen who were temporarily unable
to follow their usual vocation were
employed mending roads In Berkshire,
England, and were paid the full trade
union rates.
Sacramento (Cal) Typographical
unions new wage scale for newspaper
members provides for work-day OF
seven and a half hours and an In
crease of so cents a day. The rates
are now $3.50 for day work and $34.6O
for night work.
The Master Painters and Decorators
association Of Boston granted the de-
mands of the union house painters for
So day for one class and $6.40 for an
other class. The men had been on
strike about two weeks.
After a three-year fight. the New
York Dock and Pier Carpenters unpn
has secured an eight-hour contract
with the bodybuilding Contractg IS.
ISOLATION. Minimum wages shall lPe
627a cents an hour.
Nine-tenths of the 100000 accidents
that occurred in Pennsylvania last
year We're preventable, according te
Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the
workmen's compensation board.
Plasterers' laborers at Toronto
have settled with their employers fol
a rate Of so cents an hour time ant
one-half for overtime, and will receive
their wages every week.
Miss Hendricka Wander Filler Is now
in this country for the purpose of rails
ing $1,000,000 to build a garden village
near Antwerp to shelter Belgian wild
ows and orphans.
The Russian miner produces from
10000 to $4,000 puds "a pud is AZ
pounds) coal to $4,000 to 10000 pud'
produced in the same time by tbs
American miner.
The cost of living in Germany is In
creasing at the rate of ~ per cent {
year, requiring the average German
family to go into debt for the neces
saries of life.
The Washington state public service
commission has refused the request o.
the Puget Sound Traction, Light ant
Power company to employ woman con
ductors.
Women collectors have been put Il
work by the New York Gas compan,
in Flushing, and the company Is con
sidering employing women as mete
readers.
There was total Of 1857 accident
in Montana for 80 moi his covering tn
operation of the wOrkmen's compen
sation law, reports the state acciden
board.
Women who are able to qualify a
craftsmen will be employed as shit
craftsmen by the United States NAYS
Their pay will range from 81 to $63
a day.
The working classes in the cities 0
Russia are earning enormous wages
ranging from 900 to 1000 per cent 0
their earnings in normal times.
7 Almost simultaneously with the OF
ganization of the firemen, Joplin (Mo.
city council raised wages of these mu
nicipal employees.
y A dispute in the Dublin Qreland
printing trade has been amicably sci
tied, both parties having agreed to til
terms of the lord mayors award.
Many of the United States airplan
plants are employing women as fore
women and their efficiency is elaine
to be far better than the men,