The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-13
IN FIELD OF LABOR

expert WorkcFS are now engaged IN IL.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
offered the use of much of it's vacant
land to the employees on their Midland
(Can.J branch.
Civic employees and bakery sales
mems unions Of Vancouver. B. c., voted
against strike in sympathy with
Winnipeg strikers.
Out OF an estimated total Of $4,000
persons engaged in all branches of the
textile trade in Austria, 100000 are
employed In three Bohemian countries.
Women form the majority of the
workers In the textile trade at Lam
cashire, England, and also form the
larger part of the trade union men,
bership.
After long fight the legislature Of
Indiana passed workman's compensa-
ton law which provides for a SIS
weekly minimum, but does not include
state insurance.
Edward I. Stotesbury, the Phila-
delphia banker, is an honorary men,
Der of the Machlnists' union, while his
wife Is an honorary member of the
Boilermakers' union.
More than 60 per cent of the iron
and ship workers at the merchants
shipyard at Bristol, Pa, are idle, pend
ing a decision regarding the recent de-
crease in their wages.
The Builders association of Cleve-
land, o., had agreed to give ironwork-
ers 80 cents an hour when the decis-
ion of the war labor board giving them
only IS cents was received.
A reduction in working hours from
SO to 48 without loss of pay was an
nounced at the plant of the General
Electric company, Lynn, Mass. The
plant employs about $4,000 persons.
The threatened strike of the Ma
sons and Carpenters union, which
would have paralyzed trades of Rock
ford, ILL.,, was settled at a conference
between representatives of the union
and contractors.
Resolutions adopted by the New Jer-
sey Association of Letter Carriers, that
$1,000 a year maximum salary is in
| adequate and that the maximum sal
airy should be $4,000 and the minimum
81, 500, was forwarded to the National
Association of Letter Carriers.
At ameeting of high school teachers
in the Central High school, Newark, N.
| j., it was voted to organize teachers
| union which should be associated with
the American Federation of Teachers,
affiliated with the American Federation
| of Labor,
TorontD's general strike" In SYM
pathy with striking metal workers,
ended when representatives of the va
rlous UNIONS involved voted to accede
to the request of the Metal Trades
council that sympathetic strikers re-
| turn to work.
The Cleveland Ladies' Garment
| Workers union has appropriated $500
as campaign fund to bring about the
| Americarization of the 1.500 of their
5000 members who are now nOn-citl-
zens of the United States. zone hun
dred per cent" American by fall is the
membership slogan.
Dispatches from Rio Janeiro an
nounce the commencement of textile
strike. The workers are demanding
an eight-hour day and an increase in
wages The dispatches say that 3d.
600 strikers were reported to be out
and that they expected the employees
in other industries to join in the move
| ment
The striking workmeh in Bella, In
the province of Piedmont, Italy, have
returned to work on learning through
the appearance of agtations OF boil
| shevist character, which. however.
passed off without incident. that an an
archistic minority was endeavoring to
| take advantage of the general strike.
Fifteen hundred miners employed by
the Northwest Improvement company
! which controls several mines in the
Ole Elum district of Washington, are
on strike, and, according to reports
there is likelihood of others going out
| The strike followed refusal of the com
pany to continue paying the men for
| dumping cars, as had been done during
| the war.
The publishers of Buenos Aires are
| said to have Joined in compact never
| to admit another union printer to their
shops. The principal newspapers have
started linotype schools and are teach
| ing prospective operators. It is as
serted that the old employees on news
papers will be given their jobs again
only when they resign from the print
ers' union.
The National Union of Boot and
Shoe Operatives in Great Britain has
now dismantled its machinery.
The steel shipbuilding plant of the
Standifer company, Vancouver, WASH
! Is closed, following strike of 1000
workers belonging to the Boilermakers
and other unions. The walkout is said
to have been caused by the refusal of
the company to reinstate discharged
union foreman. One thousand work
men remained at their jobs when the
200 unionists walked out, but the man
| agement decided not to attempt to OPP
crate the plant with the crippled force
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