The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-11
IN THE LABOR WORLD

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 minimum
wage of $25.
An inventor has mounted an orchard
ladder on wheeled frame so that 1t
| can be secured at any angle and easily
| moved about.
Clerical staffs in several Irish NUM-
tion factories have threatened to go 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 a
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 60 per cent at
the present time.
Portland t0re.) meat cutters are de-
handing an eight-hour day, a $35-a-
week minimum and $25 a 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 $109 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 Superior
docks and water front approa
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
lzed, their wages were from $40 to SIS
a week. Now signed agreement calls
for rates ranging from $40 to $55 a
week, with the work week reduced
from 521a to 90 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. 1t 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, J. T. Carey, president of
the International Brotherhood Of Pa
permakers, sent the men a message in
structing them to keep the mills run
ming, and notifying them the war la
Dor board would soon give a decision
regarding the wage controversy. AS
the result operations were resumed.
Increase of 10 per cent in piecework
pay for men employed at riyetfng.
chipping and caulking, drilling and
roaming in steel shipyards of the At
lantic coast Delaware river, Gulf
coast and Great Lakes steel shipyartls
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 l to November 80 also is
| awarded.
Policemen in Quebec, Canada, at the
| present time receive between $14 and
SIG a week, while the flremen's wages
vary between $14 and SIS.
All the employees Of the Southwest
ern Qreland) railway who did not re-
turn to work at certain date were
dismissed from the service.
The Central Labor council Of Port
land, Ore, adopted resolutions declar-
ing in favor Of resembling the previous
action taken by upwards of twenty
labor unions in calling a strike for
December 8 as a demonstration Of
| sympathy for Thomas J. Mooney, i'm
! prlsoned In California