The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


The National Association of Laun-
dry Workers has a membership of over
5000.
Labor unions in the United States
have a total membership of over 81
100000.
The Blythe (Eng) Soldiers and Sail
ors' federation has refused to join the
Labor party.
Chemical workers wages in England
have increased to a greater extent than
the cost of living.
Transfers, chauffeurs, retail clerks
and textile workers in Long Beach,
Cal, have organized.
Organized cap makers in New Ea-
ven, Conn.,, have secured a fiat wage
increase of 50 per week.
Over 100000 workers are repre-
sented by the 800 delegates attending
the big British parliament.
Fire fighters in Macon, Ga, have
formed union with the idea Of hav-
ing their wages increased.
Three thousand -four mill employees
in Mexico City are demanding an
eightvhour day. and. higher wages. i
1t is estimated that $4,000 people out
of the 10000 now employed by the
government as clerks will be retained.
Miners of Nova Scotia were admitted
to membership in the United Mine
Works of America. The decision af-
fects 10000 workers.
Foremen in the Hog island ship
building yard have accepted compro-
mise of So q week increase in wages
instead of Sc, which they demanded.
Labor conditions for the near fu-
ture will most likely be based on a
universal eight-hour day in all coun-
tries, both European and American.
The epidemic of child labor spread
ing at alarming rate should receive
immediate remedial attention, to Off
set future evil.-Schenectady Union
Star.
The strike of textile workers, which
has been in progress eight weeks, in
volving 10000 men and women and
which resulted in serious rioting, was
settled at conference at Passaic,
N. J.
Wage increases of 10 per cent, with
time and a half for overtime, and re-
troactive to November 1, 1918, were
~ Jn1 hxv fha Iah hnorI In
the case of Brushmakers Local No. 35,
against the Chicago Brush Manufac,
turing company.
ConStitutionality of the Arizona act
Of 1913 limiting employment of women
to eight hours day was upheld by
the Supreme court in disposing of ap-
peals attacking the act on the ground
that it Disseminated between the en-
ployment of mattresses in railroad res
taurants and other restaurants.
The strike of 1000 white goods
workers at New York was brought to
close when mass meeting of girls
in Cooper Union ratified an agreement
conceding to them the 44-hour work
week, 10 per cent increase In wages,
and the union shop The agreement
is TO last two years. 1t was drawn
up by DR., LSenry Moskowitz, who set
fled the white goods strike of 1913.
Three hundred German women fac
tory workers, many of them Wild
ows Of soldiers, have applied to the
Third American army headquarters in
| Coblenz for employment, claiming that
with the ending of the war they had
been thrown out Of work.
The United Cotton Textile factory
Workers association in England has
decided to recommend a scheme for a
44-hour week, the present hours
worked in the cotton trade being 55I5
a week. About 100000 operatives are
interested in the movement
That wages should not be reduced
while the agreement between the gov.
eminent and the United Mine Workers
was still in force, but that after March
81, when the agreement expires, they
will be free to act as they wish, was
the advice given by w. II. Armstrong,
Alberta representative Of the Canada
fuel Board. to the local coal opera.
| tors.
The Spanish government has issued
decree establishing an eight hour
I, day in the building trafes. This nc.
ton, 1t is believed, Will settle the
lockout of the building contractors
against their employees.