River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-07-04

Milwaukee viii celebrate the 50tl
anniversary of the settlement of ne
city mkt October.
All employees of the Boston and
Maine Railroad have been forbidden
by an order Just issued, from using
tobacco in any form while ON duty,
and also when off duty if wearing uni
form or railroad badge.
The Methodist church in Colorado
voted 10 admit women as lay mem bers
of the General Conference in the
future. There was a long and ami
mated discussion over the proposal but
when il came TO vote the balloting
was sixty in favor of admitting women
and none against. but fifteen mem
Der rcfrained from voting.
The deficit in the treasury during
/ the first year of Cleveland's admin =
| tration was seventy million dollars,
and for the year just closed it was
| forty-three millions. The interest
| bearing debt has been increased by
something over one hundred and sixty
million dollars i'm the same period, |
and there are two years still remaining |
before Democracy is retired to the |
shades of the past. But we have tax |
on sugar and free wool, so let us be |
satisfied
The low price of silver has stimu-
lated increased activity in gold |
mining to such an extent that the |
increase Of production of gold last |
year was $50, 600, 600. The production |
for 1894 is valued at Sl9S, $40, 100, as |
against $l5S, $50, 900 for 1893. But the |
output of silver also showed an in |
crease over 1893. Last year 164, SIS, 1913 |
fine ounces were minted, and the |
market value averaged 63A cents an |
concentrating the market value |
$l05, 34s, 3l5-while the coming value |
would be SPA, 3Sl 200.
State treasurer Peterson is ON the
trail OF foreign building and loan as
ISOLATION doing business in Wisconsin. |
| He says that when the annual eX-
animation of their bonds now filed |
with the state treasurer takes place, |
nearly all the associations will be |
compelled to put up better security |
or quit doing business in the state |
| Under the present law every foreign |
building and loan association doing |
business i'm Wisconsin is compelled to |
deposit with the state treasurer $780, |
900 in first mortgages on real estate |
to secure Wisconsin members of the |
| association. These mortgages are |
| filed, but there are no abstracts of Of |
fetal appraisements of the lands to as
sure the treasurer that the mortgages
have any yalue.-Lake Geneva Herald |
State Board of Arbitration.
Thomas Waddell of Milwaukee has |
been appointed the third member of |
the Wisconsin State Board of Arbitra- |
tion created last winter by the state |
legislature. The law under which |
this board is organized provides that |
it must consist of three members, two |
of whom are appointed by the gov
ernor and the third by the first two |
OF the two appointed by the governor,
one must be IA representative of en-
ployers and the other of employees.
At the sugges ion of the manufac-
turers of the state Gov. Upham APP |
pointed II. III. Edwards of Oshkosh, |
and ON the recommendation of the |
labor organizations Richard Jardeaux,
well known railway conductor. |
! These two men have agreed upon |
| Thomas Waddell who is also a labor |
representative. Thus as the Board |
now stands, organized labor has a
majority, but all three Of these gen
tlemen are men of the highest integ-
rity and employers and employees all |
over the state express their Satisfac- |
ton with the men who compose this |
board.
The law does not provide for com
pulsory arbitration, but permitse her
party to a controversy to call the board
together and if both parties agree TO
the decision of the board, this is bind
ing for period of six months.
Other states have similar Boards of
| Arbitration, notably Massachusetts, |
and several European countries have
had Boards of Arbitration and Con-
Citation for a number of years.
The fact that the decisions of these |
boards are not compulsory, has caused |
many persons to conclude that such |
boards can not be practical. 1t is not |
| claimed that Board of Arbitration |
( can prevent a conflict between capital |
| and labor, but that it can be instru- |
mental in bringing about proper |
understanding between the contend |
ing parties. Vt is calculated to bring |
employers and employees together as
equals, and to help them TO under
stand that both have rights which |
each must respect, and that it is to |
| the interest of both employers and |
employees that harmonious relations |
be maintained.
a Board of Arbitration is an expert |
ment in this state and it may not |
accomplish all that its most ardent |
supporters expect of il. but any law |
or movement which has for its object |
the peaceful adjustment of the differ |
ences between capital and labor, is
worthy the hearty support of all good