The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-30
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Ten thousand walters went on strAke
AT Paris, France, for an eight-hour das
and an increase in wages.
Two hundred and fifty members OF
The British parliament signed proc
lamation opposing nationailzatloh Oh
industries. A new drastic scheme OF
rationing is said to be forthcoming
soon.
Enployees of the Vulcan Louisville
lVSmelting company of North Chicago
Numbering $50, went on strike because
1.-The demands for IS cents an hour were
Erefused. They were receiving 10 cents.
THE men also demand time and nan
for overtime.
By a vote Of 2 to /, the delegates to
the eleventh district convention Oh tlle
limited Mine Workers of America, rep
resenting 10000 coal miners of lndl-
ana. voted against asking congress 70
s4ssssanize ~ per cent beer as q nom
\ Intoxicating beverage.
/ while British union leaders were
discussing the governments demand
for guarantees that no strikes pe
called in the coal mines for thfee
months, 10000 miners struck IN the
i Yorkshire district. Thirteen hundred
miners have struck in Kent.
Striking candymakers at Chicage
voted to 90 back to work. Inc man
ufactnrers refused to allow them
aclosed shop" but did give them
44-hour week with pay at the rate O
IS hours, time and one-half for over
fine. and double time pay for Sunday
and holidays.
Elevated, subway and street car SCI
vice in Boston and its suburbs wa
completely paraIyzed when 1880 me
81 and women employees of the Bosto
! Elevated Railway company went
: strike. Over a million and hair pc
sons were left without street rallWa
Transportation service.
AT the Pennsylvania Railroad ~
= fem declarations convention the ael
3 oafes went on record as indorsing II
Y strike of 10000 workmen OF the why
overland automobile plants in Ioiea
Nv. f. Hershey of Pitcairn, Pa, pres
" dent of the blacksmiths organlzatlo
said the federation pledged itself
i'd support the Toledo workmen IN the
demands for an eight-hour day a
recognition of the union.
A shrewd blow has been struck
" the some Big Union" scheme by :
nd federal council of the Austrian
ar workers union, one of the most pc
q erful in Australia. In manIesto
q. sued to members of the A. w. U.
he federal council states that, nav
~ dealt exhaustively with the "one
IL Union" scheme the executive coun
of the A. w. U. has unanimously
iected it.
An agreement for new wage SC
I proyiding an increase Of III DAY
DE- mine and smelter employees OF
~ Anaconda Copper Mining company
III R,tte Mont. and at Great Falls
Anaconda, was reached at con,
~, ence between G. E. Kelley, presto
4 of the company, and representative
as the employees. The agreement, Il
srs cepted by the labor unions VIII
u come effective as of July last
~. restores the wage scale in effect p
m to the wage reduction OF last fe'
ary. 1t would remain in erect for
use year. !.
The corner stone of the new OF
-, ing of the International Associatlo
Machinists at Washington was
10y nv officers of that organization
time ago. -
The American Flint Glass Wor
closed their forty-third conventlo'
ase BelIaire. o., selecting Atlantic CITY
a ace tbe 1920 convention, President
ooV'' liam P. Clarke OF Toledo was rec
ed and his salary raised 70 %
other officers elected We're: Vice
nn. tdent. ]. M. Gilhooley; secre
~ treasurer, G. j. Shipman. ana a.
7 " ant ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Harry
all of Toledo.