The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-25
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Canada has over 5000 female banl
clerks.
Public school teachers in New Yorl
are agitating for higher salaries.
Forty-six women craftsmen are now
employed by the Pennsylvania rail
road
! Four large steel plants to cost SIS,
100000, are to be established in Du,
luth.
Wives of men in military service are
now admitted in the Kansas City post
office.
Blyth (England) Soldiers and Sail
ors' federation has refused to Join the
labor party.
1t is proposed to increase the wages
of the Glasgow (Scotland) police
$1.25 a week.
Derry Greland) workers resumed
work pending the reopening OF The
wage question.
Over 1000 girls are employed in the
big seaplane factory at the League
Island navy yard.
The war labor board is to make an
Investigation into traction problems in
New York city.
Repair work absorbs about 40 per
cent of the labor and machinery of
British shipyards.
The Augusta (Ga) Builders assoc
| citation has recognized trade unionism
for the first time in its history.
large number of Irish carpenters
over military age have gone to Eng
land to work on government buildings.
The Scottish institute of account.
ants has decided to admit women to
membership on the same terms as
men.
The Massachusetts, minimum wage
commission has established a mining \
rate for women employed in RI II Z sist
| linery workshops. TIT
| Aerodrome contractors from Great
Britain are at present in Dublin for
the purpose of employing men for their
work in England.
A new find of coal seams In the
Irish Midlands promises to give an
abundant yield and relieve the coal
| situation in Ireland
Unskilled workers employed in the
Illinois Central railway shops at Wa
terloo, Iowa, are being organized into
federal labor union.
| Secretary Daniels asked congress
to make permanent the double-pay
given the enlisted men of the navy at
the beginning of the war as tempo
rary measure.
Liebknecht's appeal for a general
strike is meeting with more response
with many strikes in big factories.
Liebknecht himself, entering buildings
backed by force, has persuaded work
ers to quit. The coal mine strike at
Essen has taken serious turn, the
miners trying to enforce their demand
by threats to destroy the mines on
Monday.
Every employee of Morris s. Co,
packers, was given a Christmas bonus
of 10 per cent of the amount of their
salary for the six months period end
ing November. The total amount dis.
tributed aggregates several hundred
thousand dollars, Ell. A. Timmns, sec
rotary and assistant treasurer said,
The bonus brought smile from the
office boy up.
The National Alliance of Employers
and Employed, whose object it is TO
bring British employers and workers
| together in harmonious cooperation,
recently held successful meetings in
the Midlands of delegates from trades
and labor councils. AS the result 81
activities of the alliance, a joint com.
mittee of employers and employed has
been formed at Liverpool
The house bill providing for the paw
ment by the government of the rail-
road fare of war workers returning To
their homes was passed by the senate
and now goes to conference. Tie
measure applies only to workers re-
reiving not more than $1,400 annu-
ally, and to encourage reduction in the
number of government employees al
quickly as possible the senate amend.
ed the bill so that it will apply to
workers whose services will terminate
by next January Is instead of March
81, as provided in the house draft.
The board of directors Of the Cana-
dian railway has ordered the Great
Northw Telegraph company 10
include chiefs and linemen in its new
schedule, thus avoiding a strike
The strike of policemen. firemen and
other city employees Of Montreal was
settled and the men returned to work.
The strikers agreed to arbitrate after
| the city council had voted to accede
to their demand for the dismissal AZ
the director of public safety. his ~
slstant and the chief OF detectives.
While the strike lasted only SO hours.
gangs of hoodlums caused damage a.
! timated at more than s250.0o0.