The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-11
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

markets in an effort to combat high
prices.
An advance of 50 per week and an
increase of Is cents for overtime has
been gained by Kansas City MOI
Bakers union.
Agricultural workers in West Glou-
cestershire, England, are threaten
ing to strike unless they are
paid SLIPS week.
In Sweden the trade unions have
increased their membership 1884 in
a year. OF 186,156 members, 14,402
are women and girls.
Belfast shipbuilders have achieved
a worlds record in completing an
S,OOO-ton standard ship in 10 days
after she was launched.
Canadians are discussing the ques-
ton of having aliens now In intern
ment camps in Canada employed on
the highways of Canada.
A large number of the employees Of
the Londonderry & Loughswilly Gre
laud) railway went out on a one days
strike as a protest against conscrip-
ton.
For the benefit Of housewives who
cannot leave their homes the Illinois
food conservation department is u.s.
ing visiting housekeepers to go to
them to teach the use of new substi-
tute flours.
Right of approximately 100000 en-
ployees in shipyards controlled by the
Emergency Fleet corporation to organ
lie trade unions and right of en-
ployers to form similar organizations
is recognized by the corporation.
Desire for reform of the workmen's
compensation laws Of the state has led
to the organization of smaller mine
operators into the Arizona Mining
Mems association, with Charles r.
Reiniger of Tucson as president.
Seventy thousand miners of the cen
trail Pennsylvania bituminous coal
fields have voted to work Sundays to
overcome the falling off In production
due to the Spanish iffidessE1. cpf : = - !.
Fuel Administrator Garfield an
nounced
Presentation Of honor badges to q
300 workers who made production rec
ords in the building of the wooden
cargo carriers Folsom and Tol0 was q
feature of the launching Of the twin
ships at the yards of the Foundation
company at Kearny, N. j.
Four large steel working plants that
will entail an expenditure of $4,000.
600 will be erected in Duluth, Mimi.
at the termination of the war. This
results from recent conference be-
tween Duluth interests and Judge Ell.
bert H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel corporation.
Believing that shuttle kissing in
cotton mills, an operation performed
by weavers every two minutes spreads
infection and is largely responsible
for the recent influenza epidemic, the
Blackburn (England) Weavers' asso'
citation has appointed deputation to
wait on the medical officer of health
to discuss the subject.
Awards In controversies in the cases
of ten street railway companies and
their employees were announced by
the war labor board. Wages were al
issue in six cases, and in each in.
creases were granted the men. The
cities where increased wages were
granted are Philadelphia, Kansas City
Portland, Ore, Dayton, o.. New Or.
leans and Brooklyn.
Employees of the Chicago packing
houses are demanding a minimum
wage of 65 cents an hour A confer
ence of representatives of the work
men with the packers has failed tt
bring about settlement but efforts
are being made to adjust the dispute
without taking the matter to the wal
labor board at Washington, 1t wa!
stated at the office of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Labor
Approximately $50 Bay City employ
ees of the Saginaw Shipbuilding com
pany at Carrollton refused to go tt
work when the car which was to hav'
transported them was late. At a pro
test meeting In Wenonah Park thu
men voted unanimously to return tt
work after they were appealed to BY
william Brennan, national organizer
! of the Shipbuilders Of America, ant
were promised by Herbert Armstrong
representing the company, that the!
would not hereafter be locked wher
late because of transportation Difficult
ties.
Skilled metal workers In Leipzig
Germany, get 80 cents an hour. A few
pieceworkers earn as much as 47A
! cents an hour.
To work at some essential industr,
or to work for the city at the worl
farm is now the only choice of thu
| unemployed able-bodied men at Du
luth, MINI. This is the notice serve'
on the mayor and the Commissioners o
public safety by Judge J. #. MCGEE
state fuel administrator, through in
structions from the state public safet
commission. The police began arrest
ing men UP to the age Of Afty-fve no
employed In essential industries.
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