The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-05
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

| A penny collection in factories at
Nottingham, England, has raised 500
600 for the Lord Roberts memorial
workshops and hostels.
An arbitration board has awarded
Rochester IN. " organized paper
hangers Is cents a day increase and
painters 81 day increase.
The United States department of Ia
Dor estimates that 100000 men en-
ployed in nonessential industries will
have to be trained to war production.
One of the French 75s which were
used to help stop the Huns at the
Marine was presented to organized la
Dor of Chicago by Gen. Paul VignaL.
At the national conference of Brit
ish postal employees, which meets
soon, demands will be formulated,
says the Daily Mirror, for increased
wages, pensions and better arrange
ment of working hours.
In message to David Rodgers of
Seattle, congratulating shipyard work
ers, Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board, said the delivery of $4,000 dead
weight tons by the Rodgers yard since
July 4 was record production for
one yard.
A conference of British women's
trade organizations is to be held to de-
mand that women, while prepared to
give up their present work to return
ing soldiers after the war, shall never
again go back to their old jot5 at
sweatshop wages.
At the closing session Of their six
teenth annual convention the Wiscon-
sin Association of the Master Horse
shoers' National Protective associa'
ton pledged itself to aid the war de-
| partnent to procura hnrseshoers and
instructors for black rithing work in
the army.
Officials OF the CIevfland street car
mems union issued ordrs calling off
the threatened strike OF $500 carmen,
which was scheduled as a protest
against the employment of women as
conductors by the Cleveland Street
Railway company, pending an investi-
cation of the shortage of man power.
Among the first of the wealthy
women of America to don overalls
and accept manual toll was Miss Al
ice Dawson, aged twenty, daughter OF
III. 2. Dawson. For $40 week Miss
Dawson works as radio inspector in
the De Forest Radio Telephone and
Telegraph company factory. New
York.
A petition weighing more than 30
pounds praying that he veto the bone
dry rider to the emergency food pro-
duction bill, was presented to Presi-
dent Wilson at the White House by
acting President Alpine Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. The petit
ton was signed by workers in every
state of the Union.
The federal fuel representatives Tor
Indiana sent a strong protest TO
Washington, both as to the continued
CONSUMPTION Of Indiana miners and the
shortage of cars, which is increasing,
Practically every mine in the state Is
being hit hard by CONSUMPTION. The
total production for the week was
639, 900 tons, and the car shortage was
923 per cent.
In consequence Of labor unrest in
Jamaica, w. l., the working people
are forming unions. An effort has
been made to get the government to
give official recognition to the exist
ence Of such organizations and the
governor has suggested that there
should be legislation in the direction
Of creating labor department. The
American Federation of Labor has
branch at Kingston.
Wage increases amounting 10 $l5,'
100000 annually will be granted to 30
600 men in railroad shops throughout
Canada, affecting all the railroads in
the Dominion, under an agreement an
nounced. The award is the sume as
that given to railroad employees in
the United States by Director General
McAdoo. The agreement was reached
between the Canadian railway war
board, through its labor committee
and representatives of the Railroad
Shipments federation, which had pre-
scented the wage demand.
Resolutions urging the British gov
eminent Immediately to establish
peace negotiations, providing the Ger
mans evacuated France and Belgium,
were adopted by the labor congress in
session at Derby. The congress de-
manded that labor have representation
in the peace conference.
An official dispatch from Switzer-
land says it is announced from Berlin
that all cigar factories in Germany
viii be closed at the end of the year.
Stocks Of leaf tobacco are exhausted.
This measure viii affect $4,000 facto-
ries, still employing $4,000 to 10000
and which employed 100000 in 1919