The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-19

been discovered in the Dutch East In
dies.
In the British transport service
women are engaged in work which, be-
fore the war, was exclusively confined
to men.
Welsh coal miners propose to resist
the payment of income tax unless the
abatement allowance is raised to
81, $50.
The United States employment serv-
ice during it's 16 months activity pro-
vided jobs for 4,557,259 men and
women.
Wage increases approximating 10
per cent, effective June 2, benefited
10000 New England textile mill
workers.
Hundreds of girls who were en-
ployed as a war measure by the Penn
sylvania railroad are to be retained
in their positions.
Sixteen tinplate mills in Farrell, Pa,
reopened after an idleness of over two
months. Over 1900 employees were
put to work
Bank employees in Switzerland have
received SO per cent increase in wages
and working hours cut from 81 to 4S
hours a week.
London shipping clerks have formed
a clerks union to protect the interests
of shipping clerks as to hours, condi-
tions, salaries, etc.
The tin goods trade in Japan has
made such great strides that large
tinplate plant has been started to help
supply the demand.
Thomas Okey, who has been elected
to the new professorship of Italian at
Cambridge university, England, began
life as a basket maker.
The number of bank employees on
strike in France now numbers $4,000,
and it is estimated that it Is costing
the banks 100000 a day
During the four years since March,
1915, wages in New York have in
creased 107 per cent and the number
Of employees Is per cent.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, 5000 street rail-
way employees recently quit work, de-
handing - cents an hour increase for
all, the old contract having expired
Wool combers employed in the Brit
ish wool textile industry have been
granted an increase of STAG a week in
the case of men and 81 cents in the
case of women.
Porto Rican cigars are practically
out of the United States market as a
result Of strike of cigarmakers and
tobacco workers which has been on
since the LIST of January.
The New York industrial commits
sion report shows that from SO to $13
is the wage of the maximum number
of women employed in four low-wage
industries in New York state.
So anxious are the farmers in nerth-
ern Alberta, Canada, to overcome the
difficulties occasioned by the shortage
of labor that they are buying up trac-
tors as fast as they can get them.
There will be no strike of Chicago
retail grocery and market drivers, as
planned An agreement was reached
with the South Side Retail Grocers
and Butchers association whereby the
employees are to receive a substantial
raise in pay.
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clerks are NOT entitled to va
cations with salary, according to rail
road administration orders received at
Louisville. The order affects several
hundred persons employed in the
Louisville & Nashville general offices
here, and apparently voices the adj
ministration's policy for thousands of
others.
Telegraphic reports received by the
United States employment service for
the week ending June IA from 200
cities throughout the United States
show a labor surplus Of 241,046 as
compared with a surplus of 227.7 TIT re-
ported by SO cities last week. Chi
cago is credited with 5000 unem-
ployed. DIR. P. L. Prentis, federal di-
rector, declared that the normal num-
Der of unemployed in Chicago Is from
$4,000 to 10000.
France is crippled industrially. A
great Industrial district of 1900 square
miles has been stripped Of machinery
by Germany. 1t has been hurled
straight back thousands of years, and
is now stone age island surrounded
by "a sea of twentieth century war
forced industries.
After nine days. idlehess the paint
ers end decorators in Hamilton,
Can, won their strike for increased
wages and an eight-hour day. The in
crease Is TX cents per hour, making
the new scale 52h cents. The men
have teen endeavoring for years to
attain the shorter work day.