The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-27
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

In state workshops, railways. agri-
cultural and industrial establishments
In Peru a days work is fixed at eight
hours.
Street car service at Muskogee,
Okla, which was resumed July IL, fol-
lowing a strike lasting several weeks,
was discontinued when the car men
declared new strike.
An agricultural strike was declared
In the region of Melun, about %
miles southwest of Paris, France. The
men demand wages of Is francs day,
with double pay during harvest.
Seven organizers and officials of the
American Federation of Labor were
arrested at North Charlton, suburb
Of Pittsburgh, for holding a meeting
without a permit. They were releas-
ed on bail for a hearing.
Without winning their demand for
closed shop the 1900 employees of the
Corn Products Refining company at
Argo, ILL.,, are back at work. Neither
hours nor wages figured in the strike
and the men have been returning grad
ually, it is said.
The appointment of Miss Mary An
derson as director Of the woman-in-in-
dustry service of the department of la
Dor, announced by Secretary Wilson,
brings a trade union woman for the
first time into government office as a
federal bureau chief.
More than 1000 cigarmakers went
/ on Strike--at rEanapa-- Eya.s-tA<. aafor
demands for % per cent Increase
In wages. With shippers, packers
and solicitors out of work because Of
the cigarmakers strike, 10000 men
were said to be idle.
The radio telegraphers were voted a
S15 increase in wages a month by the
American Steamship association.
They were allowed charge Of So a
day for subsistence while in port.
The scale is to remain operative for
q year This brings the salary of the
senior operators to $125 AID junior OPP
orators to $100 month and subsist-
ence.
The Building Trades council Of At
lanta, Ga, announces the cOnsumma-
ton of an agreement with the At
lanta building contractors effecting q
44-hour working week for 1000 me-
chanics in these trades and by which
1t is agreed to work in harmony until
May l, 1920. The wage scale for the
ensuing year gives bricklayers IS
cents an hour, beginning next fall
At the semi-annual elections of the
Toronto (Canada) District Labor
council which have just taken place,
the red element gained a sweeping vic
tory over the moderates and captured
all the Offices. Mr.. ]. Munroe Of the
Machinists' union was elected presi-
dent; John Gotham of the Carpenters
uion, financial secretary, and Mr.. A. w.
Nance of the Typographical union re.
c0rding secretary.
Virtually captivating to the de-
mands of their 5000 workers, who
have been on strike for nearly eleven
weeks, entailing wage loss to the
community Of more than 100000. the
board of governors Of the J. p. & C. X.
Eagle, Inc. silk mills at Shamokin,
Pa, at TrevOrton and Kulpmont, this
afternoon announced the granting Of
the demands and calling for all en-
ployees to report for work
In compliance with the demand
made by 1000 striking garment work
ers, nine firms Of Toronto. Canada,
have agreed to abolish the piecework
system, but other important matters
In dispute have not yet been settled
owing to the refusal Of the employ
ers to negotiate. The business man
ager of the Garment Makers union
says that the strikers have the sup
port Of the international union and
that strike pay, ranging from $40 to
si2 a week, began on Monday, July l.
The movement which Is taking
place among the employees of the
great London (Eng.) banks to organ
lie on a large scale is steadily grow
Ing and the number of clerks of all
grades who have enrolled In one or
other Of the guilds now reaches sew
eraI thousands.
Nine hundred shipbulders, members
Of the international union which is af-
hliated with the American Federation
Of Labor, went on strike at the Davis
4 shlpbuiIdlng yards In Lauzon and at
the finishing plant in Louise Basin,
Quebec, Canada. The strikers are de-
J handing recognition of their union.