The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-23
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

GEWEnAL EAbUh NEWS
Every one of the 225 employees of
the Angel island immigrant station
have signed an application for admis-
sion to the Federal Employees union.
General Mangin, commander of the
French army of occupation at Mayence,
issued proclamation forbidding
strikes against the Rhenish republic
Forty hours week and wages at 81
an hour was the demand made by del
egates from % building trades unions
ence held in Boston.
] About 400 hat band weavers of Pat
erson, N. j., are on strike as the result
of the refusal of their employers to
grant them 44-hour week and q fiat
increase of 20 per cent in wages.
The coal miners of central and
southern France decided to resume
work The difference between the
miners and their employers were adj
justed through the arbitration of the
minister of labor.
\ skAfter having been on strike more
| than d week 1000 knit goods workers
of Brooklyn went back to their shops,
having won 10 per cent increase in
wages. Union conditions are to pre-
vail, it Is stated, and the agreement
| terminates in one year.
Advices from Lisbon to the state de-
| partment reported that the general
railroad strike had affected the greater
portion Of train service In Portugal, ex-
cept on the lines south and southeast
Of the capital Some sabotage has been
reported.
Eighty per cent or more of the very
| fine furniture used in Havana, Cuba,
| is said to be manufactured in this
country by Spanish cabinet makers,
| the designs of the furniture CORE
| spending to the special liking of the
customer.
OF 9S71 different occupations in in
dustry only in some fifty or sixty are
there so-called apprenticeship systems,
and in most of these apprenticeships
consist mainly in an insistence upon
training during certain length of
time.
| Eleven hundred women cigar maxi
ers employed in five factories in Allen
town, Pa, went on strike, demanding
an increase in pay of 81 a thousand
| They are earning five and six dollars
a day and the managers say they were
apparently satisfied with conditions
until agitators appeared among them.
One factory was stoned. Several ar
rests were made.
| Y A strike of marine firemen, oilers
and water tenders was called along
the entire north Atlantic and Mexican
| gulf coasts from Galveston, Tex, to
! Portland, Me. The strike leaders as
sert the entire fishing industry and all
privately owned vessels will be tied up
by the walkout. The strikers de-
mand an increase of SIS a month in
wages and closed shops.
The Calumet and Hecla and subsid-
iary mines announced the re-employ-
ment of all underground workmen of
their forces. This does not mean an
Increase beyond so per cent of normal
IN output of copper, but an increase In
underground development work. 1t
| presages the turn in the copper metal
situation as viewed by leading Michi-
gan copper producers and means 5000
men will return to work in mines.
Members of the Marine Firemen, Oil
ers and Water Tenders union at Phila-
delphia were called out ON strike by
orders Of the Chicago headquarters for
% wage increase of SIS month, bet
| ter living conditions, recognition of the
union and 60 cents an hour for time
over eight hours day.
The Garment Workers union called
a strike In Canada demanding the
same wages paid in the United States.
Two thousand members of the union
responded to the strike order in Mon
freal.
An average increase in pay OF train
men of slightly more than 8 cents an
hour, with minimum of $50 month,
dating from July !, was announced
by the Kansas City Railways company.
| Employees in other departments work
ling on hourly basis are increased
from 2A to 3 cents an hour. The
Increase affects more than 5000 street
railway operatives.