The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-27
INa+IELD OF LABOR

CApeILi NUNhCtS are llUN SHSdSeu III IL.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
offered the use of much of it's vacant
land to the employees on their Midland
(Can.) branch.
Civic employees and bakery sales
mems uniohs of Vancouver B. c., voted
against a strike in sympathy with
Winnipeg strikers
| Out Of an estimated total of $4,000
persons engaged in all branches of the
| textile trade in Austria, 100000 are
employed in three Bohemian countries.
| Women form the majority of the
workers in the textile trade at Lam
cashire, England, and also form the
larger part of the trade union men,
bership.
| After long fight the legislature Of
Indiana passed workman's compensa-
ton law which provides for a $15
weekly minimum, but does not include
state insurance.
Edward T. Stotesbury, the Phila-
delphia banker, is an honorary men,
Der of the Machinists' union, while his
wife is an honorary member of the
Boilermakers' union.
More than 60 per cent of the iron
and ship workers at the merchants
shipyard at Bristol, Pa, are idle, pend
ing decision regarding the recent de-
crease in their wages
The Builders association of Cleve-
land, o., had agreed to give ironwork-
ers 80 cents an hour when the decis-
ion of the war labor board giving them
only IS cents was received,
A reduction in working hours from
50 to 48 without loss Of pay was an
nounced at the plant of the General
Electric company, Lynn, Mass. The
plant employs about $4,000 persons.
The threatened strike of the Ma
sons and Carpenters union, which
would have paralyzed trades of Rock
ford, Ill.,, was settled at a conference
between representatives of the union
and contractors.
Resolutions adopted by the New Jer-
sey Association Of Letter Carriers, that
81 800 a year maximum salary is in
adequate and that the maximum sal
airy should be $1,000 and the minimum
4 $1,000, was forwarded to the National
Association of Letter Carriers.
\ At atfneetins of high school teachers
| in the Central High school. Newark N.
J., it was voted to organize teachers
union which should be associated with
the American Federation of Teachers
affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor.
Toronto's general strike" in sym.
pathy with striking metal workers
ended when representatives of the va
rious unions involved voted to accede
to the request of the Metal Trades
council that sympathetic strikers re-
turn to work
The Cleveland Ladies' Garment
Workers union has appropriated $500
as campaign fund to bring about the
|. Americanization of the 1900 of their
5000 members who are now non-citi
| AChS VI NllV onllCN otulSo- NhC nun
dred per cent" American by fall is the
membership slogan
Dispatches from Rio Janeiro an
: nounce the commencement of textile
strike. The workers are demanding
: an eight-hour day and an increase In
, wages. The dispatches say that 80,
600 strikers were reported to be out
and that they expected the employees
in other industries to join in the move
) ment.
! The striking workmen in Bella, In
t the province of Piedmont Italy, have
: returned to work on learning through
) the appearance of agitations OF Dol
2 shevist character, which. however
{ passed off without incident, that an an
( archistic minority was endeavoring tt
5 take advantage of the, general strike.
Fifteen hundred miners employed b,
. the Northwest Improvement company
which controls several mines In tn,
Ole Elum district of Washington, arr
2 on strike, and, according to reports
! there is likelihood of others going out
The strike followed refusal of the com
! pany to continue paying the men TO
. dumping cars as had been done durin,
| the-war.
, The publishers Of Buenos Aires ar,
5 said to have Joined in compact neve
: to admit another union printer to thei
| shops The principal newspapers hav,
started linotype schools and are teach
| ing prospective operators. 1t is as
! serted that the old employees on news
papers will be given their jobs agail
] only when they resign from the print
) ers' union.
| The National Union of Boot ant
) Shoe Operatives in Great Britain ha
! now disnantled its machinery.
!, The steel shipbuilding plant of tn
Standifer company. Vancouver Wash
is closed following a strike of 200
workers belonging to the Boilermakers
and other unions The walkout is sal,
to have been caused by the refusal 0
the company to reinstate discharge,
union foreman One thousand work
men remained ut their jobs when tn
! 200 unionists walked out but the man
agement decided not to attempt to OF
crate the nlant with the crippled fore
and closed the plant.
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