The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-02
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Lynn, Mass, with over 100 facto-
ries, is the leading shoe city in the
world.
Before the year 1859 practically ev-
cry shoemaking process was hand
process.
OF the worlds boots and shoes more
than Al per cent are made in Massa-
chusetts.
Kansas farmers will pay S. day,
room and three meals a day for har-
vest hands this year.
The Belgian match industry, which
was badly crippled by the war, is
again on a sound basis.
More than $360000,000. is now in
vested in American shoemaking and
more than 100000 wage earners are
employed.
During an attempt to put down q
strike near Sombarheek, western Hun
gary, 10S railway men were killed. The
strike is continuing.
Through a mediator the Structural
Iron Workers union of Peoria, ILL.,,
secured a new agreement which gives
it raise from 1914 to So cents per
hour.
Nearly 1000 charwomen employed
in the Dominion government offices at
ottawa have formed a union with a
view of obtaining an increase In
wages.
Twelve hundred members of the
Pile Drivers union at San Francisco
are demanding So for journeymen and
| 50 for foreman, being an increase of
81 per DAY. :. =. -.t .-,. ~,
FaMle school teachers in the Uhfr1t 20
Safes are fast organizing unions to
demand more pay and recognition In
the conduct Of schools by representa-
ten on. local beards.s 7;-7-.'s Y
The Brantford (Ont.) Trades and
Labor council, in common with all 9TH
err union men throughout Ontario, are
urging on the government the enact.
ment of an eight-hour day.
The seamen's strike, which has tied
up the coastal trade of Australia and
many of the ocean-going steamship
lines, continues in spite of the offers
of arbitration made by the employers.
The convention of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men at Denver, Colo, adopted resolu-
lions urging that Eugene V. Debs and
Thomas J. Mooney, now in prison, be
freed.
Organization Of teachers union to
be affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers, which is associated
with the American Federation of La
Dor, was decided upon by Newark
IN. J.) teachers.
All the big shops of Hartford, Ont,
have adopted a standard eight-hour day
for their employees. The big Cocks
hutt plant, the Verify company and
the Massey-Harris factory are among
those which have established the new
hours of labor.
The 1920 men who have been on
strike at the Pussy & Jones shipyard
at Gloucester, N. j., on the Delaware
river, returned to work. Their griey-
ances will be arbitrated The strike
occurred week ago when the rivet
counters struck for $35 week instead
of 6S cents an hour. The riveters
have asked for $625 per 100 rivets in
stead of So, the present wage.
A five-day week for brain workers
on the London Times has been inaug-
urated by Lord Northcliffe. 1t includes
editors, copyreaders and reporters.
The system shortly is to be extended
to the Daily Mail and his other daily
publications. Fleet street is aghast
at the carrying over into newspaper
dominion of the Northcliffe methods
long in vogue on his weekly and
monthly publications.
Cable and linenIen of the Cumber-
land Telephone and Telegraph com
pany and the Western Union Tele-
graph company, members of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers of the World, went on strike
in sympathy with Western Union en-
ployees affiliated with the Commercial
Telegraphers' union. Union officials
said the entire Cumberland force and
Is Western Union linemen were out.
Increases in salaries of schoolteach-
ers of several southern California cit
les will result from The signing of
bills by Governor Stephens raising the
quota per pupil from state funds to
S17.50. Another bill permits the rails
ing of the school tax rate in counties,
One of the four plants Of the Salt
| River Valley Water Users associa-
ton at Roosevelt dam, which supply
electric energy to a number of the
large mines of the state and to the
| City of Phoenix Ariz.. was tied up by
a strike. The association refused O
demand for closed shop and increas
/ ed wages.