The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-14
AFFAIRS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Recent Important Happenings IN All
Sections of This Country and
Throughout Europe.

IN. j. LaborerS union went on strike
in all parts of the city to enforce o
demand for % per cent wage in
crease. simultaneously 1900 brick
layers, carpenters and steam filters
employed ON jobs with the laborers
quit in sympathy. The laborers get
so cents an hour and seek 621k cents
Edward NJ. Waldron, head of the
Newark General Contractors associa-
ton, said the organization "fatly re-
fused" to grant the demands, but that
no effort would be made to employ
non-union men.
The coal miners Of Australia have
wages.
Montana sets the highest minimum
age (sixteen years. at which a child
is allowed to work.
Bank clerks in Switzerland are now
receiving so per cent more in wages
than they did in 1914.
Italy has nearly 100000 trade
unionists affiliated with the various
trade unions in that country.
Wool spinners, cloth folders and
carpet spinners at Lawrence, Mass,
are 100 per cent organized.
The Bricklayers' union of New South
Wales has demanded an increase from
$40 to Sab a day and 44-hour
week.
Around Cranbrook Center, Alberta,
there are a number of lumber camps
employing $500 men, with a payroll Of
$4,000 a day. Il!
BY n ministerial decree, the work
ers on the Italian railways are grant
ed an eight-hour day with one day off
duty weekly.
Indiana is one of ~ states having a
law prohibiting the employment Of
women at night in at least one group
Of occupations.
The Australian Workers union has
asked the minister of railways to in
crease the railroad laborers' pay from
$243 to $2.75 a day.
1t has been discovered by an in
vestigating board that some wait
resses in Manitoba, Canada, have been
working 80 hours week.
The British ministry Of munitions,
through it's training schools, has shown
how successful women may be pre-
pared for shop supervisors and fore
women.
The Metal Trades council of To-
ronto has addressed a letter to each
Toronto member of parliament at OF
tawa, appealing for an eight-hour day
for all the workers in Canada.
Seven bills framed by organized Ia-
Dor were passed by the Michigan leg
islature during the recent session. One
of these prohibits under penalty of fine
and Imprisonment, sex discrimination
In the payment Of wages Of peEssssr S ssS5
gagged in the manufacture or produc-
ton of any article. Another bill en-
larges the compensation rights under
the workingmen's compensation act.
Four thousand striking employees
of the American Railway Express
company at New York voted unani-
mously to return to work and leave
the adjustment of their grievance to
the committee, officials of the labor
department of the railroad admins
tration. The decision was reached
after the strikers had listened to adj
dresses by government representatives,
officials of the American Federation
of Labor and representatives of the
company.
Frank Morrison, arbitrator in the
wage dispute between Typographical
union No. and the Publishers assoc
citation of New York city, formally an
nounced the award. The printers re-
ceive an increase of SO week, post
dated to April /. That is all they
asked for on the wage account. The
weekly pay of an afternoon newspaper
compositor now will be $43.50, and
that of morning newspaper compos-
itor $46.50 on the basis of an eight
hour day, less 80 minutes for lunch.
A bill providing for basic eight,
hour day in Wisconsin in manufacture
ing establishments with time and q
half pay for overtime was engrossed in
the lower house by vote of 81 to Al.
The assembly also engrossed bill al
lowing reduction on income tax re-
turns for property made useless by leg
islation or the end of the war. 1t is
aimed to aid war industries and brew
cries. The senate passed a bill requir-
ing boys up to eighteen to attend vo-
cational schools IL hours a week. The
present limit is seventeen years and
eight hours.
More than 1000 men employed In
the building trades industry Of Gary.
Ind, who have been on strike, re-
turned to work and the threatened
strike of 1000 more has been avert
ed as the result of an agreement
reached between the unions and con
tractors.
The federal council of the Austral
ian Workers union has issued mani
festo to its members announcing that
the council had unanimously rejected
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