The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-13
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

| OEVENHL EADOn NEWS
Laborers in Visalia, Cal, are being
paid 81 a day.
| Japanese laborers receive only %
| cents day for ten hours work.
The government labor survey shows
that there is practically no labor sur
plus.
London bakers are demanding a min
inum wage of SIS per week for 4S
hours.
| The major portion of the population
at Tampa, Fla, are employed in the
cigar factories there
| A Canadian association of British
manufacturers has been established
with branches at Toronto and Mon
treal.
| Boston contractors have signed an
agreement with $500 carpenters which
gives the men 81 an hour for their
labor.
The National Woman's Trade Union
League Of America maintains a school
at which women are trained in organ
ization.
| The Boston Central Labor union has
started college where workers may
secure an education on any subject
they desire.
| Vermont's army of female workers
in industrial establishments increased
1873 per cent during the last six
/ months of 1918.
/ The strikes in Santos and ST. Paul,
Brazil, have been Settled by agreement
between employers and workers. The
strike situation in Rio Janeire remains
unchanged, however
| The manufacture Of clothing In all
forms has developed into quite an i'm
portant industry in recent years
throughout Australia.
Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts
signed the bill requiring textile manu-
facturers to furnish wage specifica-
lions to their weavers.
Mexico has 100000 inhabitants, of
which there practically is no middle
class, and all her citizens are composed
mainly of wage earners.
| Employment in Michigan shops and
factories was given to 693,6SS persons
last year, an increase of 67,631 over
1917, according to the report of the
state labor commissioner.
In state workshops, railways, agri-
cultural and Industrial establishments
| in Peru days work is fixed at eight
hours, with no reduction in pay.
| During the period of the war the ar
tificial dye industry in Japan has gone
forward very rapidly. and now there
are more than 10000 factories in op-
GRAFTON.
| Although factory products in the
year ending June 80, 1917, were val
ued at approximately S4500 600.
| South Australia Is not an Industrial
/ state, for the sawmills, smelling indus
tries, -four and oatmeal mills and the
refining of sugar account for about
one-half of the amount.
A federation of all of the labor
unions in the maritime industry on the
Pacific coast is being formed. The new
organization will include the Sailors
union Of the Pacific. the masters,
mates, and pilots of the Pacific coast,
the marine engineers. the marine fire.
men, oilers and watertenders, and the
marine cooks and stewards, all togeth-
er including about 10000 members.
At a meeting members of the Chica-
go Bakery and Confectionery Workers
union ratified the agreement made by
their officials with the heads of the
big bakeries of the city, thereby end
ing the strike which had been In prog
ress since late in April The men are
to receive So week increase in wages
and an additional 20 cents an hour for
night work.
There is great unemployment in the
] British Isles present figures showing
/ that there were on March ID, 998,619
persons receiving employment dole
| from the British government, including
444.277 men. 4S6a45 women, 26,327
boys and 81 ,070 girls
| The American Wringer company's
plant at Woonsocket, R. l., employing
700 started on a 48-hour week, with
a schedule made up for five days, thus
allowing Saturday holidays. The Ny
-anza cotton yarn mill, employing 800,
has posted notices Of an eight-hour day
and Is per cent raise, effective at
| once.
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