The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-10-11
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

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The Patternmakers' union in Mon
treal, Canada. has established i AL
hour week,
The Texas legislature has passed a
minimum wage law for women and
children,
Girl factory workers IN Dublin, ire
land, receive from $3.50 to $40 per
week.
There are now nearly 1900 leather
manufacturing establishments in the
United States.
Labor costs in France have multi
piled two and seven-tenths times, and
material costs are multiplied by threc
Colorado, with 16 per cent wording
women is receiving So per cent Of the
state quota for woInan's work.
More than 700 men, largely shop
employees, have been dropped from
the pay roll by the Louisville & Nash
Vile Railroad company.
Workers In the various building
trades in Paterson N. j., have been
successful in their fight for increased
wages.
Two Vancouver (B. O. unions have
been suspended from the metal trades
council because they affiliated with
the zone big union" it was announced.
Every one Of the 225 employees of
the Angle Island Immigrant station
have signed an application for adnis-
sion to the Federal Employees union.
Machinists. employed in the Kansas
City waterworks are to receive IS per
day If city council grants their re-
quest.
Members Of the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers throughout the country
We're notified to resume handling bust
ness of the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies.
A Paterson (N. I'D mill owner has
inaugurated in his plant a constitution
al government plan. which he finds is
not only beneficial to him but to his
employees as well.
The average increase In wages grant
ed to British miners is equivalent to
between 10 and 100 per cent on pre-
war average wages Of all classes Of
workers.
In Switzerland all wageworkers in
private industrial undertakings who
earn less than $2.T0 per day are enti-
tied to unemployment relief when ont
of work.
I Two thousand factory workers, in
the employ Of the Liquid Carbonic
company Chicago, manufacturers of
soda fountains, We're granted an in.
crease in wages of 1917 per cent, effec~
litive July /.
The shops of the garment-making
trades in Boston were affected by
strike Of cloak and skirt makers.
Strike leaders said 5000 workers were
out. They demand a 44-hour week and
abolition Of piece work.
Settlement Of the strike at the Sey-
mour (Conn.) Manufacturing company
ended when it was announced that
wage schedules would be made to cor
respond with those at other mills in
| the vicinity. The plant reopened
A strike In the textile finishing in-i
dustry has been averted, 1t was an
nounced through the signing Of u
| two-year agreement between employers
and workers, under which the spongers
and cloth examiners will receive $40
more d week, beginning June 30, and
work 46M hours.
| In an appeal to British labor, Right
Hon. John r. Clynes urges the work
| ers Of Great Britain not to adopt
| policy of bloodshed, but to hold fast
and win their fight by constitutional
methods. The labor meeting went on
record in favor Of universal six-hour
| day and the abolition Of CONSUMPTION.
i The 500 Chicago city clerks who went
on strike returned to their desks, hay
ing heen granted an increase of wages
to $500 year. The tiremen and POI
licemen were granted an Increase from
/ $1,000 year to $1,000, their demand
being $1,000. Street cleaners and
garbage collectors were given q raise
Of so cents day. their demand being
for 81.
i The tobacco workers. strike In Porto
Rico, involving $4,000 employees, In
progress since january /. has been end
ed BY an agreement reached through
/ the efforts Of legislative committee.
Under the terms Of the agreement the
4 cigarInakers nre granted an Increase
OF $1.75 in wages for each thousand
cigars made. The other workers In
the tobacco industry are to receive a
| is per cent increase and 1t is expected
that work will be resumed In about
| three weeks.
The Chicago hosting engineers were
granted 81 an hour, They have been
getting S7ls cents an hour.
An agreement was reached on a new
wage scale at conference between
the Western Sheet and Tin Plate Mans
1 ufacturers association and the ANAL
gamated Association OF Iron, Steel and
| Tfn Workers. The increases, which
went into effect on July |, will aver
age A per cent, the highestsin any de-
partmentl being 10 per cent. Certain
4 factions declared firmly for six-hour
day instead of the present eiglt-hour
| shift This was declared impractica.
slble because Of the cost.