The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16
IN THE LABOR WORLD

States number more than 275,000.
/. Sheet-metal workers in Knoxville,
Tenn, have been given an increase in
pay Of 81 per day.
More than 100000 age-earning
women are now members of the Ma
tibnal Woman's Trade union.
Steamftters and plumbers in Duluth,
Mimi, have received an advance of 90
cents a day, making their daily wage
ls7.
The building trades department of
the American Federation of Labor has
at the present time over 100000
! members.
United States cigarmakers rolled g.
G60,96 cigars in 1917, while in 1918
| they made over 40,000,000,Oo0 ciga-
retses.
The Texas Power and Light COM
pany's refusal to arbitrate differences
WITH organized electrical workers re-
sKed in darkness for Fort Worth,
H., for several nights.
'oreign-trained workmen who really
pw the finer points of the decorative
es. are paja from. Sc to $l5 day.
While Americans thorougTN Competent
for ordinary work get SIS day for
their services.
Previous to the war Belgian cotton
mills operated about 100000 spindles.
about 100000 of which could be oper-
ated at the present time, providing
brass and copper fittings, shafts, pull
leys, etc, could be replaced.
The Standard Oil company Of Indi-
ana is adopting an industrial relations
plan carrying with 1t provisions for
annuities for employees and giving en-
ployees voice in matters pertaining
to relations with their employers.
American Express employees at
Syracuse, N T., quit work when in
formed that their wage increase, grant
ed June ], was not retroactive to jan
uary /. The men were told that an err
ror had been made in previous an
nouncement.
Approximately 600 city employees,
representing 16 organizations, at a
mass meeting at Seattle, Wash, vote
| to form zone big union" for the pur-
pose primarily Of seeking $50 a
month increase in pay for every city
employee. Policemen and firemen
would be included.
Miners of Nova Scotia are planning
| to work only five days each weeks ac-
ccrding to statement made at Glaze
Bay by Silby Barrett, newly elected
| international board member of the
| United Mine Workers. The announce
ment caused stir in Cape Breton
labor circles.
The project providing minimum
wage for women and girls employed in
Porto Rico was approved in the lower
house, after many stormy sessions
| The bill provides that women under
eighteen years of age shall be paid not
| less than four dollars week, and
women over eighteen years six dollars
a week. The first three weeks Of ap'
premiership are exempt from this re-
quirement
| A demand for uniform IS per cent
increase in wages for the silk ribbon
weavers of Paterson, N. j., has been
received by Albert L. Wyman, secre
tary of the Silk Employers associa'
ton Of Paterson and all silk ribbon
manufacturers, from John Golden, gen
eral president of the United Textile
/ Workers Of America, who points Out
that the weavers are not satisfied with
the concessions granted by the manu-
facturers, which range from 10 to Ii
per cent.
Five hundred technical workers EN-
ployed by the borough Of Queens, New
York, at salaries ranging from 81.
800 to $3.50 year, announced they
| had joined the Union of Technical Mer
| and presented demand to Borough
President Connolly for an average in
crease Of $500. The men are response
bic for all plans and specifications fol
borough work and for inspection Of
buildings.
The Chicago structural iron workers
who have been making 871s cents ar
hour. The steamfitters, who have
been getting S1A cents an hour. de
! mand SIPS an hour.