The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-04
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Ten states now have women men, /,
bers on the executive councils Of their
state labor bodies.
The state horticulturists in Nebras-
ka are carrying on campaign to in
terest farmers in the planting Of home
orchards.
Hartford (Conn.) Bartenders' union
has secured an agreement which calls
for a 60-hour week and a minimum
wage of $25.
An inventor has mounted an orchard
ladder on a wheeled frame so that it
can be secured at any angle and easily
moved about
Clerical staffs in several Irish NUM-
ton factories have threatened to 60 on
, strike unless they are granted an in
crease in pay.
Miners from the Pennsylvania an
thracite fields are to be used to re-
open the coal mines in the Lens
(France) district
Deep Sea Fishermen's union of
Noah Bay, Wash, has chartered YES
sci and will handle fish direct without
the aid Of middlemen.
Ben Davis, the veteran leader Of the
Yorkshire miners, has cut loose from
the British labor party, as he refuses
to associate with anarchy and revolu-
ton.
Over $4,000 has been realized by
fete held by the workers in the royal
dockyard, London, in aid of the fund
for the erection of memorial hos
pital at Woolwich.
In Germany in certain industries the
proportion of work done by women has
risen from slightly under IS per cent
in 1914 to practically go per cent at
the present time.
Portland (Ore.) meat cutters are de-
handing an eight-hour day. SOFA
week minimum and $25 week for
women employed as sausage makers
and on counter work.
During September official figures
show that the average weekly earn
ings of employees in New York state
was $22,31, an increase of t$1.08 over
August and the highest of any month
since 1914,
The executive. committee of the
| American Alliance for Labor and De-
mocracy is opposed to any attempt to
/ lower the standard Of living by lower
ing wages and has adopted resolutions
| against bolshevism.
Guards employed at Duluth-S Superior
| docks and water front approaches
have been released from service This
will release several hundred men for
/ employment in numbering and other in
dustries in this territory.
Last December when corn broom
makers in New York city were organ
Iized, their wages were from $40 to $19
| a week. Now a signed agreement calls
for rates ranging from $40 to $55 a
i week, with the work week reduced
4 from 521a to so hours.
/ Labor unionists of London, Ontario,
have decided to open cooperative
stores here soon in order that members
may have places at which they are
certain Of finding goods which bear the
union label. It is expected that the
stores will be departmental in charac-
ter. 1t is claimed that few Of the
goods now sold there bear the label.
! Shortly after the strike of $4,000
union employees of newspaper mills
in New York and New England went
into effect, ]. T. Carey, president of
the International Brotherhood Of Pa
permakers, sent the men message in
structing them to keep the mills run
ming, and notifying them the war la
Dor board would soon give decision
regarding the wage controversy. AS
the result operations were resumed. =
Increase of 10 per cent in pieceworlS
pay for men employed at riveting,
chipping and caulking, drilling and
roaming in steel shipyards Of the At
lantic coast, Delaware river, Gulf
coast and Great Lakes steel shipyards
Is given In an award by the shipbuild-
ing labor adjustment board The in.
crease is effective as of November 30
Additional retroactive pay for these
piece workers on basis of so cents
per day for every day worked from
October ! to November 80 Also Is
awarded.
Policemen in Quebec, Canada, at the
present time receive between $14 and
$16 a week, while the firemen's wages
vary between $14 and $18.
All the employees of the Southwest
ern (reland) railway who did not re
turn to work at a certain date were
J dismissed from the service.
The Central Labor council of Port
land, Ore, adopted resolutions deelar
Ing In favor of resembling the previous
action taken by upwards of twent,
labor unions in calling strike fol
December 0 as a demonstration o
! sympathy for Thomas J, Mooney, I'm
prisoned In California.
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