The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-18
IN WORLD OF LABOR

There will be no strike of shipyard
workers on the Pacific coast as pro.
test against the recent Macy wage
award, according to union officials
here. The officials said the metal
trades delegation now in Washington
had advised against strike on the
ground that the workers protest had
just been heard by the new board and
that it was advisable to await the
boards decision.
Lord CurZ0n, member of the war
cabinet, estimates 100000 persons
will be out of employment in the next
few weeks, owing to cessation of
munition work of various kinds. The
government, therefore, has decided to
expand the stats of employment ex.
changes throughout the country to aid
in the eventual REIMBURSEMENT of some
100000 persons to peace time con
ditions.
The strike of 100000 cotton spin
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current wages is in full swing in
southeast Lancashire, England. Only
a few firms have conceded the mems
terms. Fully 50,00p,000 spindles are
idle. AS the stock of yarns is low
the weaving sheds soon will have to
close, throwing out of employment an
additional 10000 persons.
A protest against the recommends
ton of the federal war labor board
that women be removed from, cars Of
the Cleveland Railway company by
January 3 and request that the
board reopen the case has been for
warded to William H. Taft, Joint
chairman of the board, by Miss Rose
Moriarty, representing the Car Womt
ems association. w,
Payment of wages in cash and 4
minimum wage for women's labor are
among matters before a conference
between executives of the SaskatCh-
evan labor council and the pr0yln-
cial government, held with the view
to deciding upon new legislation and
amendments to existing legislation in
connection with the labor laws OF the
province.
Precedent was established by the
government in the arrest at st. Paul,
Mimi, of Is striking telephone en-
ployees under the law passed by con-
gresS October 81 providing punish
ment for encroachment on federal con
trolled telephone property The pris-
oners include one woman. They are
charged with cutting wires.
BY mutual agreement between the
Engineering Employers Federation
and the engineering trade unionists,
it has been decided that the question
of the recognition of shop stewards In
the Amalgamated Society of Engineers
should be dealt with on a national
basis ut an early conference.
A minimum wage of 40 cents an
hour for women collectors on the lines
of the Boston Elevated railway has
been fixed by the war labor board.
The increase to the women ticket col
lectors will add about 100000 a year
to the company's pay roll and will af-
feet 233 women,
1t is stated that next season women
will be used as grooms and exercise
boys at all the American race tracks.
The United States ordnance depart
ment is calling. for women for emer-
gency shift hours from 10 to II a. m.
and from / to 8 p. m.
With an exceptional demand for pipe
for ship building and oil fields, one Of
the largest mills at Youngstown is be-
ing run one turn daily instead of three
because of shortage of labor. Inabil-
ity to obtain skilled tube mill workers,
officials say, is the cause.
The Industrial Workers Of the
World are preparing the legal steps
necessary to ask an appeal from the
sentence imposed on W. d. Haywood
and some 90 other I. w. w. leaders
and members at Chicago last summer.
A majority of the members of the
Montreal (Can) fire, police and water
departments struck upon the city's re-
fusal to grant an increase in salaries.
The tieup of public service is practi-
cally complete.
The 5000 men who went on strike
at the Bethlehem shipbuilding corpo-
ration's plant at Sparrows Point, Md.
returned to work, the nonunion en-
ployee who was the cause of the
waIkout having been discharged
Striking street car men went back
to work at Omaha after nine days Of
idleness. The men returned to work
under an order from the war labor
board, which promised an adjustment
of their complaints,
British engineering and shipbuilding
trades unions have asked for an adj.
vance in wages Of 100 per cent above
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