The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-05-11
PUTS AN END TO
LABOR TROUBLES
Railroad Adjustment Board Civ
en- Power to Settle All
Disputes.
ALL MEN OF PROMINENCE
Body Will Have Confidence of the
Country in Task That May Be Diff
ficult--General News of In
terest to Workers.

TONS board Of adjustment No /, which
VIII pass on disputes over rules of
contracts and employment conditions
arising between railroad arrangements
and the four leading railway brother
hoods, have been announced.
The board consists of four repre-
sentatives of railway homogeneous
and four officers of the brotherhoodS,
as follows; Il. I. Whittier, assistant
general manager of the Pennsylvania
lines, West. John G. Walber, secre-
tary of the bureau of information Of
eastern railways. J. w. Higgins, exec
utive secretary of the Association of
Western railways. DR.. G. p. Neilb
manager of the information bureau of
southeastern railways. L. r. Shop
pard, vice president Of the conductors
brotherhood. f. A. Burgess, assistant
chief of the engineers. Albert Phil
lips, vice president of the firemen. w.
N. Doak, vice president of the train
men. The boards decisions will be
DliNt CNNSpl III NuSC VI al llC WIZ, With
w. S. Carter, labor director for the
railroad administration, will decide an
issue.
A leading German manufacturer,
writing in the Norddeutsche Allege-
meme Zeitung, says: "Out of 100
spinning and weaving mills only 20
are still running at high pressure,
while in the boot and shoe industry
H. 400 factories have been amalgamated
into 300. In the oil industry Is fac
tories working at high pressure have
been formed out of 100 works previ-
ously existing. In the silk industry
the number of spindles has been re-
duced from $4,000 to $500" Comment
ing on this letter, the Tageblatt re-
marks "This shows for the first time
in statistics the great extent to which
the closing down of factories has TAX
zen place in Germany"
The British Seamens' and Firemen's
union has decided that it's members
shall refuse to sail on any ship convey
ing delegates appointed to the Inter
allied labor conference in the United
Estafes. An official Of the union said:
Our opposition to these men is the
same as that against Ramsay MacDon-
aid. We will take no one who is OPP
posed to the doctrine that Germany
must make compensation to depend
ents of our murdered merchant sea-
men"
Pennsylvania state department Of
labor and industry has issued letter
and poster to all employers Of women
in Pennsylvania, calling attention to
the growing number of women workers
in the state, due to war conditions, and
pointing out that In the present emer-
gency the state laws relative to wom-
ems labor conditions and hours have
not been changed. Mems wages are
suggested as fair basis of compensa-
ton for the women.
The house of representatives pass
ed bill granting permanent increases
of from 10 to 20 per cent in the sal
aries of virtually all postal employees,
providing for postal savings stamps"
appropriating 100000 for experiments
in motor truck service. principally to
transport food to the larger cities, and
setting "a cents an ounce as the maxi
mum price to be charged for delivery
of mail by airplane.
The United Mine Workers Jour
nal declares that labor CONSUMPTION
Is still advocated by some who hope
thereby to profit by underpaid forced
labor. We serve notice here and now.
IL forced labor should be demanded by
our government no individual shall be
allowed to profit therefrom.
SchoolteacherS Of Marinette, Wis,
will receive an increase of $50 in sal
AIRY for the next school year. and in
addition will be paid $35 more pro-
viding they remain in service for an
entire year. This plan has been de-
cided upon by the board of education.
Five thousand employees of the Ma
tionaI Tube Co.'S plant, Loraln, Ohio,
will benefit from the Is per cent wage
Increase authorized by the United
States Steel corporation. The in
crease means an increase of $4,000 In
the daily pay roll there.
The United States employment serv-
Ice has established offices in all states
except idaho, Kentucky, Vermont and
West Virginia and arrangements for
offices in these states are being made.
More than 80 branches have been
opened and state and national offices
have been federated in % states. The
service is now operating 14l labor ex-
changes.
Germany's much heralded boast that
her labor standards are the highest In
the world, and that her workmen are
the most satisfied best treated and
highest paid. has been shown by John
A. Dyche, former secretary treasurer
Ladies' Garment Work
srs union, to be pure German propa-
ganda.
The London Pail Mall Gazette says
that labor leaders who have
been comforting on peace terms pre-
to projecting a discussion
with the enemy have abandoned the
schcms, regarding the time as IN
preritious.