The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-20
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

now getting $5.75 for an eight-hour
day.
Nearly $50 meat shops in Seattle,
Wash, are now paying journeymen
meat cutters $40 week.
A six-hour day and % per cent in
crease in wages is the demand being
made by Scranton (Pa) miners.
Eighty per cent of the painters in
Los Angeles, Cal, work in strictly
union shops. Scale Of wages there is
Sc a day.
The machinists, boilermakers and
their helpers of the Monon shops at
Bedford, Ind, who had gone out on
strike, returned to work.
Newspapers Of Tokyo, Japan, are
again publishing, following the settle
ment of the strike of printers, which
forced a general suspension last week.
Eight Winnipeg strike leaders were
formally committed for trial at the
November asszes by Magistrate r. M.
Nolle on the charge of sedtious con-
Spiracy.
1t is estimated that in 1918 in Great
Britain there were 1862 strikes. The
average number of working days lost
was 6,237,000, and the wages lost
amounted to $6,237,000.
Every little village or farm in Fin
land has its own workshop, where dur
Ing the year, and in turn, come the
shoemaker, the wheelwright, the sad
dler, the tailor and the harness maker
Of the III national unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor in 1915 only SO were reported as
paying benefits of any kind, and Of
these 35 had established only one kind
of benefit.
A strike Of girl operators at the
Southern Telephone company ex-
change at Boonville, Ind, ended when
Manager George Hall had the windows
washed. They had been soaped so the
girls couldn't see.
Millions of dollars in projected build
ing contracts are being held in abey-
ance because of the uncertainty of the
labor situation in the building trades
and the refusal of the public to pay
more for construction.
There are about $500 establish
ments manufacturing various kinds of
beverages in Japan. OF this number
500 are located in Tokyo. Several ad-
ditional glass bottle factories have
neutrality-suspicious. there to supply the
receptacles for the increasing beverage
trade.
According to Miss Mary Van Kleeck,
director of the women in industry bu-
reau of the United States department
of labor, there are millions of women
in this country who now receive less
than a living wage, and millions are
working too long hours for health and
efficiency, and many are working I'M
der conditions which are unwholesome
and unsafe.
The Cudahy Bros. company's plant
at Milwaukee was closed down. Re-
Gently 800 employees struck because
some other employees were let out on
account of decreased production. Mi
chael F.. Cudahy, head of the firm, said
the walkkout paralyzed the output of
the plant, making a complete shut
down necessary. This action means
that 800 other employees who stayed
on the job will be out of work.
The Interborough Rapid Transit
company, which operates the subway
and elevated lines in the borough of
Manhattan, has granted a general wage
increase of 10 per cent to its employ
ees, it was announced. The advance
in pay was given ut the request of the
Brotherhood of marlborough Employ
ees and is expected to forestall any
possibility Of strike similar to that
which recently paralyzed the transpor-
taiion in Brooklyn.
The Vermont state branch OF the
American Federation of Labor at its
annual convention voted to petition
Governor Clement to appoint com
mittee on which labor should be rep
resented to inquire into the high cost
of living
With the contracting bricklayers Of
Wilmington, Del, undecided whether
to accede TO the demands Of the brick
layers, who are demanding an increase
Of 40 cents IN hour. contracting plas-
terers have been notified by their
workmeD that after September the.
wage scale viii be 70 a day, an In
crease OF 81