The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-20
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Mine owners in South Africa are eX-
perimenting with dust-laying prepa-
ration with molasses base.
The Boldt glass works shut down
at Cincinnati, the reason given being
the approach of prohibition.
Alsace-Lorraine railway workers are
to be affiliated with the French Fed
Grafton Of Labor, dating from May 1.
The minimum wages Of tank testers
in Canada is 80 cents an hour and
their helpers from At to 65 cents an
hour.
The average advance in pay per man
granted by the United States railroad
administration amounts to about $160
per year.
About so per cent of the matches
produced in Norway are exported, and
the domestic product dominates the
home market.
Wilmington (Del) carpenters are
demanding IS cents an hour, but the
employers have declined to see them
and arbitrate the question.
New South Wales labor members
proposals for submission to the inter-
state labor conference in June include
d 30-hour week for coal miners.
Nine hundred meat packers and
butchers employed at Montreal, Can.
have quit work with the idea of bring
ing about the recognition of theil
union.
Eleven publishing houses at Kala
mazoO Mich. have granted the eight
hour day to pressmen and bookbinders,
where such were employed, with no re-
duction in wages.
Industrial accidents in Pennsylvania
during February claimed fewer vic
Tins than during any one month in the
last three years of the operation Of
the compensation act.
In the last 18 months the meat cut
ters' and butchers union has in
creased it's membership from 5000 to
100000. In that time wages also have
increased so per cent.
First-year men employed on the
trolley cars at San Antonio, Tex, have
received an increase in wages of 81
cents day, while those employed for
more than year will receive an adj
vance Of IS to-z9 cents.
Employees of the Uruguayan gov
eminent have been granted increases
in salaries amounting to 20 per cent
for officials whose salaries do not ex.
coed $5170 a month; Is per cent for
those who receive more than $S2.72 a
month.
Pay roll of railway employees dur
ing government control in ID months
increased $77,000,000 up to last Jan
uary, when it had reached the enor-
nous sum of 1921, 100000 Number of
employees in the 10 months increased
$4,000.
Many of the small independent
iron mines in Minnesota have closed or
have announced their intention to
close and the larger ones have re-
duced their working forces 40 to 60 per
cent because of the unsettled condi-
tons in the steel market.
Union bricklayers in Milwaukee
have been granted a wage increase.
The minimum wages were advanced
from $500 and $640 a day to 500
day; plasterers from So day mini
mum to 81 minimum, and hOd carriers
from so cents per hour to 30 cents.
The San Francisco labor council
representing scores of building trades
crafts and thousands of workers, re-
fused after prolonged debate to accede
to petition of the International Work
ers' Defense league that a strike be
declared on July in behalf of Thorn
as ]. Mooney and Warren X. Billings
now serving life sentences for murder
growing out of the Preparedness day
bomb explosion In July, 1916. The
vote was l24 to 40 against any strike
action.
Domestics employed in the best
homes in Toronto, Canada, are receiv-
ing wages ranging from $50 to $40 per
month, while good stenographers can
demand $25 week.
About $50 journeymen tailors in
Washington have suspended work be-
cause of an attempt to reduce wages
30 per cent and to increase the work.
ing hours from eight to nine day.
An increase of $25 month in wages
and the Introduction Of an eight-honl
day for all men except those assigned
to trains have been awarded to EN-
ployees of the Canadian Express com
pany by an arbitration board.
Twelve hundred employees struck
at the shipbuilding plant of Vickers
Ltd, Montreal, Canada. The action
was not authorized by organized labor
The men have been negotiating for O
wage increase.
The Automobile and Wagon Work
ers' council, affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, has under
taken a campaign Of organizing the
automobile and wagon mechanics ant
helpers at Philadelphia and vicinity
for the purpose Of increasing wages
shortening hours and improving the
general conditions under which they
are employed
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