The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-08

huNN ucSH SlullSu IlCISdSSu pay.
Wages average $1.38 day in Ger
many's engineering industries.
Socialists and Hebrew trades union
|. lists are planning to assist the negroes
to organize into vast labor union.
Women at ordinary work in a
French munition plant earn from to
II francs day.
There are 1900 women employed
in the Paris offices of the French war
department.
British Columbias lumber mills can
produce about 2,000,OO0,O00 feet Of
lumber each year.
jamestown IN. " electrical work
ers have secured 651a cents an hour
and a union shop agreement.
Apprenticeship in his majesty's dock
yards has been reduced from six to
five years.
Derry Qreland) bricklayers have
gone on strike, demanding 30 cents an
hour. -...
1t is estimated that there are 10000
private employment agencies through
out the United States.
Rabbit trappers in Pembrokeshire,
England, are reported to be making as
much as SIS daily.
Girls employed in the British NUM-
ton works in some districts cultivate
the waste ground around the hostels.
Sheerness, England, has followed the
example of Canterbury, Gillingham
and Strood in employing women scav-
engers.
Fuel Administrator Garfield ap-
proved recommendations by the de-
partment of labor for increased wages
for miners in the anthracite coal fields,
All Canadian locals of the Brother
hood of Carpenters will be asked to
make an effort to have the rate 65
cents an hour by May l, 1919.
More coal was mined from April
to September % than ever before in
any half year period in the history of
the American coal industry.
Dissatisfied with the wage advance
recently granted them, 500 laborers at
the Chicago g. Alton railroad shops in
Bloomington, ILL.,, struck.
Planning mill workers in San Fran
cisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San
Mateo and Santa Clara counties were
granted an increase in wages rang
ing from so cents to S1.25 per day.
The city of Paris has opened II
municipal butcher shops in the hope
of lowering the price of beef They
have met with great success and will
soon begin to sell mutton as well.
Boilermakers in the Oakland and
Alameda shipyards refused to work
when they were refused double pay
because of its being a holiday. The
other employees of the yards worked a
full day.
Increasing demands that children be
included in the industrial mobilization
for war brings the announcement from
Felix Frankfurter, chairman Of the
war labor policies board, that no mat
ter what the exigencies of war the
government will not resort to child
labor.
Digging coal is profitable work in
these war days. The last pay check
handed Charles Fogle at Moundsville,
w. Va, for II days work amounted to
$169S9. On one of these days he load
ed 80 tons and 100 pounds of coal,
thereby earning $500 for eight hours
labor.
Virtually every large industrial es-
Establishment in the metropolitan dis
trict of Philadelphia, one of the great
est centers of war activities in the
world, has been affected more or less
seriously by the epidemic. Thousands
of employees in the Delaware River
shipyards have been stricken with in
fluenZa.
Demands for an eight-hour day and
wage of ST an hour, with 81 an hour
for overtime We're presented to the
national labor adjustment committee
at New York on behalf of $4,000 long
shoremen engaged in overseas ship
loading at ports from Boston to Nor
folk. The present agreement between
the men and their employers, including
government agencies and steamship
lines, expires at midnight. According
to members of the committee, 1t calls
for nine-hour day and wage scale
of 80 cents an hour, with 70 cents
| for night work and 81 at meal hours or
on Sundays T. V. O'Connor, delegate
| from the International Longshoremen's
association, said before the conference
began that the longshoremen had
agreed to abide by the decision of the
| committee.
A strike of workmen at the Hartford
| City (Ind.) paper mill has been set
| tied, the management granting the de-
mands of the employees for an In
crease In pay amounting to from 90 to
| rs cents day.
REIMBURSEMENT of the wages of 150,.
900 mine workers in the anthracite
| fields with an increase along lines thai
will be agreed on by the mine owners
| and mine workers has been approved
| by Fuel Administrator Garfield. The
action is the outgrowth of conferences
extending over four weeks which Doc
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