The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST


in the province of Ontario, Can.
Women are being employed in the
manufacture of bricks at Miffintown.
Women street cleaners in Mount
Vernon, N. Y, wear official uniforms.
For every 100 workers in the fac
tories of Sweden there are % women.
Consideration is being given in Bos-
ton to a proposal to close stores. for an
hour at noon.
Oakland (Cal.) Typographical union
has secured a war bonus of So week
for its members.
Miners In Arizona have organized In
an effort to have reforms in the COM
pensation laws made.
The Alloa branch of the Scottish Ma
tional Farmers union has decided to
boycott the Irish harvesters.
A movement is on foot to call con-
vention of the labor interests of the
four western Canadian provinces.
The pay offered harvesters by the Hob
derness (EnglanO Agricultural club
is $16.S0 a week, with beer and tea.
When dock laborers at Cork Gre.
land) were refused an increase in pay
and shorter hours they went on strike
Salaries of officials Of the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and Join
erS have been advanced by % per cent
Glasgow, Scotland, was the first city
to introduce women conductors and
motor operators on the street railways
system.
Approximately 10000 members in
good standing in the United Mine
Workers of America have entered the
service,
Metal workers at Winnipeg, Cana
da, are earning $37 to $40 a week. In
| two years increases have been from
38s to so per cent.
The RsHaing ton Amps, CONN., - y
! plant at Ilion, N. T., engaged In govzfn-
ment work, has been closed. AT one
time $4,000 persons were employed.
| Women clerks in the cities of Win
nipeg and Boniface, Canada, have or
ganized, with the result that they are
now receiving minimum wage of So
week.
A resolution passed by the South
Waterloo (Canada) Trades and Labor
council is being forwarded to the fuel
controllers in Gait, Preston and Hes
peler, asking that the cellars OF all
houses be inspected.
Last year 100 United States firms
were engaged in the manufacture OF
dyes and chemicals from coal tar, as
against Z prior to the war. The total
production last year was 54,000,O0C
pounds, valued at $50, 100000. IF
| 1t is more economical and more ex-
pedient to spend five or ten minutes
in properly placing the new worker
than 1t is to spend two hours or some
times two days in trying to replace
| him.-Employment Service Bulletin. I
To keep the workingmen in the al
lied and neutral European countrie!
informed as to the true attitude oi
| America toward the war, the S0cialis
Democratic league is to establish com
missions at Milan, Paris, and othel
| cities.
The number Of shipbuilders EN-
ployed at Hog Island now is al
most as many as the total number Of
iron and steel shipbuilders reported
four years ago throughout the entire
nation when 33,50S constituted the ma
tional quota. M
The fixing Of the minimum wage fol
female clerks in mercantile houses al
S12.75 a week, as the result of thu
first sitting of the new minimum wage
board appointed by the provincial gov
eminent, is meeting with hearty disap
proval from the Vancouver (B. c.,
council
The Manitoba (Canada) minimum
wage board has set its first wage f0l
working women in the province in thu
case of laundry workers. The boart
has figured that $9.48 week is neces
sary for a girl to live decently, am
for good measure an additional
cents q week is added.
Employees of the Lima (Ohio) Loco
motive works have organized for TIL
operation of a cooperative store
Eighty thousand dollars was mad
available for the project. Goods vii
be sold to employees of this and othe
industries at cost. The store will b
opened within short time in down
town location.
Eight thousand Cinnamon, destine
for sugar cane fields in Cuba, are be
ing sent to that country through Floi
ida ports. Several contingents hav
recently passed through Mobile. Th
greatest movement Of sugar from Cub
ever known is expected next year.
A page advertisement appearing 1
Butte, Mont, newspaper and signe
"Worker's Council" appeals for tn
establishment of a workers common
wealth in America. The article |
headed "pewn With Capitalism an
concludes: up witt, 10 glossssI
commonwealth of the workers! Com
onl Victory to the working classl"