The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-03-23
LABOR NEWS OF INTEREST

Employees VI Lue SUullucutdLs
Standard and other silk mills at Phil
lipsburg, N. J., quit work at noon
January % and ignored orders from
the companies to work until five
make up time that will be lost on
Mondays the manufacturers decided
to operate the mills an additional hour
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Fridays and four hours extra on
Saturday. The employees decided,
while they did not mind the extra hour
on the four days, they will not work
Saturday afternoons.
The London National News says II
understands British labor delegation
soon will leave England for the Unit
ed States. 1t will be composed Of w.
A. Appleton, secretary of the General
Federation of Trades Unions; ]. Walk
er Of the Steel Shelters union;
Charles Duncan, labor member Of
parliament for Barrow-in-Furness and
uaion, and William James Thorpe, So
| cial Democratic member of parlia-
ment for the south division Of West
Ham and founder and general secre-
tary of the National Union of General
| Workers.
Miss Nestor of Chicago will repre-
sent the women of the nation on the
national war labor board, which has
been created by Secretary Of Labor
William B. Wilson. Miss Nestor is
president of the Chicago Woman's
Trade Union league. She is men,
Tense work of the council of national
| defense and is a member of the SUBJ
committee of women in industry of the
council.
Increases In wages for all Pullman
employees in train service is asked of
the railroad wage board, of which
Secretary of the Interior Lane is
chairman. w. G. Lee, general presi-
4 dent. of the. Brotherhood Of Railroad
Trainmen, submitted to Chairman
Lane list Of employees for whom his
organization and the Order of Railroad
Conductors speak. All classes Of em-
ployees are embraced in the demand.
Railroad men generally are to be
given a wage increase. Higher pay in
shipyards, munition plants, tool fac
tories and motor works has lured thou
sands of workers from railroad shops.
William G. McAdoo, director general,
comforting with union labor leaders,
said it was apparent railroad workers
would have to be given substantial
increase. Mr.. McAdoo is now mapping
out plan of procedure.
The New York public service COM
mission has received the first formal
protest against the employment Of
women on subway and surface cars.
Chairman Straus has answered the
complaint with the statement that the
commission is without power to do
anything in that regard. The COM
plant was in the form of resolutions
by the Central Federated Labor union
of Brooklyn and Queens.
The strike of street car men in
>
over several months and has been &C.
companied by riots and bloodshed,
was declared off by the local union Of
car men. The company made no pro-
posals and the action of the union is
declared to be complete surrender
of the union.
An eight-hour day for the farm la
borer, for the farmers wife and the
farmer himself was voted by the Colo
RADIO Farmers Educational Co-Opera-
tive union, in convention. All that re-
manned to put the schedule in force
is for local unions to adopt it and
their members to enforce it.
The Public Service Reserve, the reg
istration agency of the employment
service, already has obtained the
names and qualifications of more than
100000 workers of all classes, who
have signified their willingness to go
where their services are needed In an
! industrial capacity to win the war.
The Kansas City Labor Herald
, states that at convention of Sioux
: City trade unionists held in that city
: recently it was decided to place a la
3 Dor ticket in the field for the coming
municipal election and Rev. Wallace
NJ. Short was unanimously nominated
as candidate for mayor.
} Fifteen thousand cigarmakers and
tobacco workers have returned to
) work in the 10 factories Of the Porto
! Rican-American Tobacco company.
! This ends the longest and most gem
: eral cigar strike the island has ever
: had.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil
5 Company of California has found that
0 the eight-hour day is moneymaker
l production having been increased un
< der this system.
: A three months strike against the
4 Yellow Pine Paper Mills company, In
4 Orange, Tex, has been settled through
mediation.