The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

49, ~
The Patternmakers' union in Mon
treal, Canada, has established a AZ
hour week.
The Texas legislature has passed
minimum wage law for women and
children.
Girl factory workers in Dublin, Ire
land, receive from $3.50 to $40 per
week.
There are now nearly 1900 leather
manufacturing establishments in the
United States.
Labor costs in France have multi
piled two and seven-tenths times, and
material costs are multiplied by three.
Colorado, with 16 per cent working
women, is receiving 50 per cent of the
state quota for womans work.
More than 700 men, largely shop
employees, have been dropped from
the pay roll by the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad company.
Workers in the various building
trades in Paterson, N. j., have been
successful in their fight for increased
wages.
Two Vancouver (B. CO. unions have
been suspended from the metal trades
council because they affiliated with
the zone big union" it was announced.
Every one of the 225 employees of
the Angle Island Immigrant station
have signed an application for admis-
sion to the Federal Employees union.
Machinists employed in the Kansas
City waterworks are to receive IS per
day if city council grants their re-
quest.
Members Of the Order Of Railroad
Telegraphers throughout the country
were notified to resume handling bust
ness of the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies.
A Paterson IN. J.) mill owner has
inaugurated In his plant constitution
al government plan, which he finds is
not only beneficial to him but to his
employees as well.
The average increase in wages grant
ed to British miners is equivalent to
between ITO and 100 per cent on pre-
war average wages of all classes of
worEers. Il. --,- ---,t - - -
In Switzerland all wageworkers in
private industrial undertakings who
earn less than $2.70 per day are enti-
tied to unemployment relief when out
of work.
Two thousand factory workers, in
the employ of the Liquid Carbonic
company, Chicago, manufacturers of
soda fountains, were granted an ins
crease in wages of 1914 per cent, effec>
tive July 1.
The shops of the garment-making
trades in Boston were affected by
strike of cloak and skirt makers.
Strike leaders said 5000 workers were
out They demand 44-hour week and
abolition Of piece work.
Settlement of the strike at the Sey-
mour Comm Manufacturing company
ended when it was announced that
wage schedules would be made to cor
respond with those at other mills in
the vicinity. The plant reopened.
A strike in the textile finishing in
dustry has been averted, it was an
nounced through the signing of u
two-year agreement between employers
and workers, under which the spongers
and cloth examiners will receive $40
more a week, beginning June 80, and
work 46% hours.
/ In an appeal to British labor, Right
Hon. John L. Clynes urges the work
ers of Great Britain not to adopt a
policy of bloodshed but to hold fast
and win their fight by constitutional
methods. The labor meeting went on
record in favor of universal six-hour
day and the abolition of CONSUMPTION.
The 800 Chicago city clerks who went
on strike returned to their desks, hav-
ing been granted an increase of wages
to 1900 a year. The firemen and po-
licemen were granted an increase from
| $1,000 a year to $500, their demand
being $4,000. Street cleaners and
garbage collectors were given raise
OF so cents day, their demand being
| for 81.
The tobacco workers strike in Porto
Rico, involving 10000 employees, in
progress since January l. has been end
| ed by an agreement reached through
! the efforts of legislative committee.
| Under the terms of the agreement the
cigarmakers are granted an increase
| of $1.75 in wages for each thousand
cigars made. The other workers in
| the tobacco industry are to receive a
Is per cent increase and 1t is expected
that work will be resumed in about
three weeks.
| The Chicago hosting engineers were
| granted 81 an hour. They have been
| getting S71a cents an hour.
An agreement was reached on a new
| wage scale at conference between
the Western Sheet and Tin Plate Man
ufacturers' association and the Anal
| gamated Association Of Iron, Steel and
| Tin Workers. The increases, which
went into effect on July l, will aver.
| age per cent, the highest in any de-
partment being 10 per cent. Certain
/ factions declared firmly for a six-houl
/ div instead Of the present eight-houI