The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-26
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Over 10000 Belgians have been re-
patriated from England, but there are
still 10000 who want to stay, accord
Ing TO home Office figures. British la
Dor unions object.
Eleven hundred machinists, tool and
die makers on a strike and locked out
from score Of shops, went back to
work at Chicago They were granted
their demands for the union scale of
wages and hours.
\ District President Kennedy of The
United Mine Workers announced at
Hazleton, Pa. that the convention of
the anthracite district will be held on
August 10, when the delegates will
frame the new demands to be made on
the operators at the expiration of the
present wage. agreement, which runs
to April /, 1920.
The strike or lockout of 600 en-
ployess of the Hamilton Beach Shoe
company is settled and the factory
at Racine. Wis, is again open. Fred
OsIus. president of the company, said
.s&at the strike had been settled and
HAT Gle company had granted avei;s;,
demand Of the employees. The labor
dispute started in April.
Samuel Gompers' salary as presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, despite his vigorous protest.
was raised from $500 to $4,000 a
year. In voting against the increase
of his own salary, Mr.. Gompers stated
to the convention that enemies Of la
Dor had made his salary the subject
of criticism while he was In Europe,
CHASING him with millIonaires.
The amount of unemployment In
Great Britain is still serious. Accord
ing to the latest figures given In the
Labor Gazette, at the end of March.
there remained lodged at employment
exchanges LOGO. 245 out of work, dona-
ton policies, 519,047 of which were
those of women and girls. And these
figures, of course, only represent part
of the unemployment in the country.
A bill limiting work aboard all pub
lie and private vessels to eight hours
q day Of forty-eight hours a week
was adopted by the French chamber
Of deputies. During the debate sew
eral deputies expressed the wish that
negotiations be opened with other
powers to enact similar legislation for
their seamen on the ground that
France would be handicapped II she
were the only one to have eight hours.
The government promised to begin
negotiations.
An amicable adjustment of labor
troubles between cotton mill owners
and operatives at Charlotte. N. O.,
which had existed for ten weeks. has
resulted In the return Of the EN-
ployees to work. Mill operatives
went on strike at Charlotte and Con-
cord. and walkout was imminent at
Annapolis when the settlement was
reached. The mills were reopened on
the "open shop" basis. and in future
uO uiSEIluludLluu Will Uc uuduC uehlti5t
union operatives.
The A. r. of L. convention rejected
a proposal that organized labor favor
extension Of the civil service to all
employees of the federal government,
on the ground that such system
would lead to transfer from re-
publican form Of government to a bu-
reaucratic form of government"
The labor faction of Montreal was
successful for the first time in elect
ing candidates to the new house, which
will contain seventy liberals, nine con.
seryatives and two labor party mem
bers.
Thirty-two members of the Cigar
makers union were fined or sentenced
to Jail at Chicago for violating an In.
junction issued by Judge Denis e..
Sullivan of the superior court Of Cook
county
British dressmakers are to get s11
for a 48-hour week, under the new
agreement with employers. Similar
wages are paid even when the work
done does not take 48 hours. Nurses
also have established a 48-hour week.
In England nurses are paid $3.50 a
year and have special allowances for
a uniform, lodging with food being
nrovided