The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-19
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

GENEhAL LAbUh WU les.
City workers in London are to be
paid bonuses every six months.
The miners strike has been settled
to the satisfaction of both sides and
work was resumed in the coal mines
Of northern France.
Building workers in Ottawa, Can
ada, have been granted an increase of
20 per cent on present wages, an eight
hour day and other concessions.
Through a mediator the Structural
Iron Workers union Of Peoria, H., Sc
cured new agreement which gives
it raise from. 761S to IS cents per
hour.
The employees of the Great South
ern Lumber company Of Sacramento,
Cal, and one of the largest concerns
in the world, are joining their various
unions.
Minimum wages affecting u indus
tries employing approximately 400
women have recently been fixed by the
Manitoba (Canada) minimum wage
board.
Twelve hundred members of the Pile
Drivers union in San Francisco are
demanding So for journeymen and SO
for foremen, being an increase of 81
per day.
The nine building trades of York,
Pa, have received charter for the
formation of building trades coun-
Gil, and the new bodysis now in work
ing order.
y Montreal (Canada) journalists have
l'----saas:as=sed an organization and AFFILIATED
with the International Typographical
union. 1t is the first journalists union
III Canada.
One thousand miners in Parker City,
Utah, declared strike for six-hour
day and $3.50 wage. The United
States labor department assigned a
conciliator.
Wages in Switzerland vary greatly
In the different cities, Zurich paying
the highest, followed by Basel and Ge-
neya, with Berne and st. Gall paying
the lowest
A Worcester (Mass.) company has
given the use Of large room in its
factory at noon time to all girls and
men in the plant for dance and rec
reation hall.
Striking printers Of the Sun, morn
ing newspaper, returned to work at
Vancouver, B. O., following instruc-
tions from International Typograph-
Teal union officials
Charles M. Schwab of the Bethle-
hem Steel corporation has announced
that at the Sparrows Point plant he
would spend between $25,000,000 and
$40,000,000 in improvements.
Schappelrei, prominent in labor cir
cles Of Winnipeg, Man., is under ar
rest charged with conspiracy and Sc
dition. Senator Robertson, minister
of labor, says arrests have been decid-
ed on as a definite policy in handling
the trouble growing out of the strike.
He referred to the strike as tragedy.
The average salary of 100000 Amer
lean teachers is said to be only $500
ne. year. The negro day laborer, the
street sweeper, the janitor get more.
While almost every other class pros
,pers, teachers have been forced to go
atcng on the same old low salaries
that prevailed before the war, not
withstanding the cost of living has in
creased about 100 per nt-Houston
Post.
y In the first general wage advance
made by the railroad administration
following the recommendations of the
railroad wage commission approx
mately $4Q0,000,000 year was dis
atributed among the railroad employees.
About $140,000,000 Of this went to
trainmen and enginemen and about
$260000,000 to other employees. On
supplemental orders about $150,000,000
was added to the payroll of the shop
mon. about the same to maintenance
of-way men and clerks and about $45,-
100000 to telegraphers and station
agents.
+ Fifteen thousand building crafts
iren in Columbus, O., struck when
the building contractors refused TOPPER
nit them to enforce the universal
working card and union shop condi-
lions. The ten organizations compos-
ing the Building Trades council were
affected.
The latest innovation in clerkless
stores Is the "dresseteria," now sue
aessfully handling women's ready-to-
wear clothes. Signs replace salespeo-
pie in this unique shop, so unattended
and unhurried, the customer examines
the articles in which she is interested
and makes her purchase.