The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-13
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

France, ceased, the employers having
declared lockout because of the de-
mands of the lockers union.
Three thousand members of the
Boot and Shoe Workers unions of st.
Louis have been granted 44-hour
week with the same pay as for the So
hour week now in force, by their en-
ployers.
Upon the lines of the Pennsylvania
railroad east and west Of Pittsburgh
there are employed $4,000 men of for
eign- birth, chiefly Italians, and of
this number 25,700 are employed east
of Pittsburgh.
During the year ended September
30, 1918, 100 fatal accidents occurred
in coal mines in Nova Scotia. The av-
erage of 1898 workmen were en-
ployed in the % coal mines for which
the figures are given.
Ohio coal mines are operating from
65 to 20 per cent full time, as COM
pared with As per cent three months
ago, when thousands Of miners were
idle, according to officials Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of Ohio.
OF the 139,5SS workers employed
in the over 1900 establishments in
Tennessee 21.4 per cent are women.
Since the signing of the armistice I'M
employment has been increasing
among English women at an alarming
rate.
A car filled with strikers will be
placed at the head of all railway trains
passing over Portuguese railroads to
guarantee their safe passage. Action
to that effect was taken by the minis
ter of war after section of track was
torn up by strikers near the station
at Povoa, about twenty miles north
of Oporto.
Operations in the silver mines of Co
bait, Ont, were suspended as the re-
suit of strike by virtually all miners
employed in the district. The walkout
followed refusal of mine managers to
consent to adjustment by a board of
Cancellation of the demands of the
men for increased wages, shorter
hours and improved working condi-
tons.
Operations in the silver mines of Co
bait, Ont, were suspended as the re-
suit of strike by virtually all min
erS employed in the district. The
walkout followed refusal of mine man
ayers to consent to adjustment by a
board Of Cancellation of the demands
of the men for increased wages, short
er hours and improved working condi-
lions.
All mines Of the Central Coal and
Coke company in the Kansas field were
idle when the strike order issued by the
board of district No. IA, United Mine
Workers of America, in conjunction
with similar order by the Missouri
district officials, was put into effect.
About 1,400 men were involved.
The miners say they have been unable
to settle numerous grievances with the
company.
Old age pensions, stock partner
ships, and life insurance, together with
an increase in wages and reduction
in working hours, all of which benefits
to employees will begin on August /
of this year, were announced by Off
GERS of the Studebaker corporation at
South Bend, Ind. Some of the 5000
men and women will benefit under the
grant, which Is said to be one of the
greatest steps in behalf of the work
ers taken by any American corpora
| ton.
cooperative movement by striking
machinists of Rock Island, H., and
| approved by the Central Labor Union,
has for its object the buying Of food
stuffs by all union men there from Chi
cago wholesale houses. The unionists
charge that too high prices are asked
in Rockford.
All the employees of the Siemens-
Schuckert company, one of the largest
electrical firms In Germany, went on
strike. The strikers number 10000.
The Siemens-Schuckert men struck be-
cause of the discharge of 10000 of
their fellow workers at two other
plants Of the company In Siemstradt.