The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-13
OTHER LABOR NEWS

fected.
The strike of dock workers at Liver
pool, England, has been settled. The
strikers regard the settlement as great
ly in their favor.
The long-threatened strike of Ignite
miners in the mining district near
Leipzig, Germany, started. The men
struck for an increase in wages.
Saginaw (Mich.) street car service
was tied up by renewal of the strike
fol pay increases from "a to Sc cents
an hour to 40, 43, As and AZ cents.
Conciliator Fred L. Feick reported
to the department of labor that the s.
Fl. Hill Casket company of Chicago
had granted Is per cent increase to
its employees, thereby terminating a
strike.
international Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers and Shipbuilders and Help
ers of America at meeting at Su-
perior, Wis, voted against a strike
which was to have gone into effect
July 81.
Increases in wages for city laborers
and pay for teams was granted by the
city of Tifin, o. The scale was in
creased from 30 to 40 cents an hour
for laborers and so to 70 cents an
hour for teams.
Telegraph workmen and mechanics
employed by the Berlin Germany
postal and telegraph administration
went on strike as protest against dis
charge of 200 of their colleagues for
participating in a recent strike.
Illinois post office clerks asked con-
gress to raise their wages, with min
imum of $500 a year instead of ST.
600, and maximum of So, 400 instead
of $1,000. They also ask limitation
of overtime work as far as possible.
Approximately 300 employees of the
Louisville Home Telephone company,
members Of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers. including
girl operators, voted July 2S to call
off a strike that has continued since
July /.
Six hundred and fifty employees of
the Gary (Ind.) Screw and Bolt works
went on strike. 1t is said majority
refused to go to work because four
machinists In the plant were dis
charged.
The strike of employees of the Des
Mninnc flo CD
averted when the mems wages were
increased from AZ to 60 cents an hour.
They had demanded an increase of So
cents. If it is found the company can
not meet the increase the city council
will be asked to allow the company to
increase its fares.
Several hundred Boston policemen
have expressed themselves in favor
of utilization with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The chief reason for
their action, it was said, is that they
have had great difficulty in getting a
salary of $1,000 a year, whereas Chi
cago policemen who are associated with
organized labor are about to receive
salaries Of $4,000 year.
Work in all departments of the Bos-
ton navy yard was suspended while
the mechanics joined in a parade and
mass meeting to protest against the
announcement that the working force
of 5000 must be reduced by at least
1900, to square with the cut in naval
appropriations made by congress. It
was said that the walkout was vir-
tually complete.
Demands for wages of 81 an hour
for oilers, firemen, boiler washers and
maintenance men, and $125 month
for coal passers at the Chicago city wa
terworks were made by James B. Con-
roy, business agent of the Information
al Union of Stationary Firemen and
Oilers at a conference with Water
Commissioner Edward e. Wall and
Charles Hertenstein, president of the
efficiency board.
Chief of Mines Button of Harris
burg, Pa, was informed by the attor-
ney general that questions relative to
establishment of barrier pillars In min
ing operations are not to be de-
termined by the attorney general, but
by the mine experts, who constitute
the proper tribunal under the law, and
that the mine inspector In charge Of
the district must arrange a. meeting
and hold hearings.
]. HOFFMAN, president of Local No.
100 of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers union announced that
the Chicago manufacturers had grant
ed an increase in wages and better
conditions, and proposed strike had
been called off.
A settlement of the strike of the
Haskell Barker Car company's plant,
at Michigan City, Ind, has been eff
fected by Fred L. Feick, mediator for
the United States department of labor
The elght-hour day, time and one half
pay for overtime and an increase in
wages approximating Is per cent wero
granted the men.