The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-05
GENERAL LABOR NEWS


Laborers in Visalia, Cal, are being
paid "a a day. ... .....
Japanese laborers receive only %
cents a day for ten hours work.
The government labor survey shows
that there is practically no labor sur
plus.
London bakers are demanding a min
imum wage of $15 per week for As
hours.
The major portion of the population
at Tampa, Fla, are employed in the
cigar factories there.
A Canadian association of British
manufacturers has been established
with branches at Toronto and Mon
treal.
Boston contractors have signed an
agreement with $500 carpenters which
gives the men 81 an hour for their
labor.
The National Woman's Trade Union
League of America maintains a school
at which women are trained in organ
ization.
The Boston Central Labor union has
started college where workers may
secure an education on any subject
| they desire.
Vermont's army Of female workers
In Industrial establishments increased
1873 per cent during the last six
months of 1918
The strikes in Santos and st. Paul,
Brazil, have been settled by agreement
between employers and workers. The
strike situation in Rio Janeiro remains
unchanged, however.
The manufacture Of clothing in all
forms has developed into quite an i'm
portant industry in recent years
throughout Australia.
Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts
signed the bill requiring textile manu-
facturers to furnish wage specitica-
lions to their weavers.
Mexico has 100000 inhabitants, of
which there practically is no middle
class, and all her citizens are composed
mainly Of wage earners.
Employment in Michigan shops and
factories was given to G93,G9S persons
last year, an increase of 67,631 over
1917, according to the report of the
state labor commissioner.
In state workshops, railways, agri
cultural and industrial establishments
In Peru a days work is fixed at eight
hours with no reduction in pay.
During the period of the war the ar
titicial dye industry in Japan has gone
forward very rapidly, and now there
are more than 10000 factories in OPP
Grafton.
Although factory products in thu
year ending June 80, 1917, were val
ued at approximately $94,500,00O
South Australia Is not an industrial
state, for the sawmills, smelling indus
tries, flour and oatmeal mills and TIL
refining of sugar account for abou
one-half Of the amount.
= A federation of all of the labo
3 unions in the maritime industry on tn
t Pacific coast is being formed. The ney
!. organization will include the Sailors
union OF the Pacific, the masters
e mates. and pilots of the Pacific coast
$ the marine engineers, the marine fire
a men, oilers and watertenders, and tn
g marine cooks and stewards, all togetf
err including about 10000 members.
At a meeting members of the Chicf
+ 60 Bakery and Confectionery Workers
$ union ratified the agreement made
+ their officials with the heads of th
big bakeries of the city, thereby enc
ing the strike which had been in pros
e ress since late in April. The men ar
= to receive SO a week increase in wage
e and an additional 90 cents an hour fc
night work.
There Is great unemployment In tn
} British isles, present figures shown
I that there were on March IA, 9SS61
persons receiving employment dol
from the British government, includln
444.277 men, 486,945 women, 1882
boys and 31070 girls.
The American Wrlnger company
plant at Woonsocket, Il. l., employin
700 started on a 4S-hour week, wit
schedule made up for five days, thu
allowing Saturday holidays. The ny
ANA cotton yarn mill, employing SOC
I has posted notices Of an eight-hour dn
and a 10 per cent raise, effective q
once.