The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-11
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

( Railway clerks employed on the
West Shore railroad are affiliated with
the trade union movement.
Over 400 printers are idle in Dublin,
Ireland, in consequence of lockout in
the book and job printing houses.
When the war began the Krupp gun
works were the largest of their kind
in the world, employing $4,000 people.
Today 100000 men are at work in
our shipyards, with 100000 engaged in
trades that provide material for the
shipbuilders.
/ ~, Y. oaSsfstsl SMass teamsters' union has
\ seSureE nm Increase Of So a week and
an additional 10 cents an hour for
overtime.
Members of the Baltimore Typo
graphical union employed in CONNER
cial shops have secured voluntary in
crease of S. week.
Reports from the principal cities of
Texas show that women are now re-
placing men in nearly all the stores
and business houses.
Italy, at the end Of her third year in
the war, had built up number of
enormous ordnance factories, one en-
ploying $4,000 people,
A delegation of Canadian customs
officials recently visited ottawa in the
hope of obtaining reforms in the mat
ter Of wages, bonuses and appoint
ments.
]. Harry Covington, former chief
Justice of the District of Columbia
court, was named by the war labor
board as umpire in the paper mills
strike.
The United States food administra-
ton is backing campaign fer the
carrying of the dinner pail, special
plea being made to mothers on behalf
of schoolchildren.
Approximately 10000 munition work
ers were released at Pittsburgh when
five plants of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio and Manufacturing company, en-
gagged in war work, closed down, fol-
lowing cancellation of United States
and British contracts.
The National Nonpartisan league, at
its secret annual convention at ST.
Paul, Mimi, Endorsed the plan of or
ganizel labor in Chicago and Illinois
to launch new party, and pledged its
cooperation, according to the official
report Of the meeting given out.
Woman teachers of the st. Louis
grade schools are forming an organiza-
ton to look after the interests of
teachers in the grade schools in affairs
before the board of education. The
teachers have been given increases
ranging from $3.50 to 1910 per year, but
there is much dissatisfaction with the
award.
Bird & Son, Inc, pager manufac-
turers with a number of plants, have
sent to their former employees who
are now in the war service, this no
tice: 1T will be our policy to take
back each and every man who left us
to go into whr service. 1t may not be
possible to give each one his old po-
sition, but VIE certainly expect to give
everyone either his old place or one
equally as good"
Sixty thousand textile workers in
Scotland hate made demand for five
days OF eiglf hours weekly with an in
crease OF 30 shillings per week and a
minimum of % per cent over the pre-.
war wages. This Is the most sweep
Ing demand by labor on record in the
limited Kingdom.
The resignation of Frank p. Walsh
as joint chairman of the national war
labor board has been accepted by
President Wilson and Basil M. Manly
has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
| William Harmon Black, Mr.. Walsh's
alternate oB the board, also resigned,
but was reaDpointed By Mr.. Manly.