The Forrest City times., 1906-11-30

| yention in this city early in Decem
 per
 Las Angeles. Cal.-Rumors of gen
 sral increase in wages on the South
 ern Pacific, Sante Fe. and Salt Lake | railroads were verified to some ex- | tent by President E. P. Ripley of the Sante Fe. There will be some in crease in wages on all transconti.
 mental railroads" said President Rip | ley. but the various unions will not
 get all they ask for
 Philadelphia-Follo the action of the directors of the Pennsylvania | railroad company. the directors of the l Northern Central railway. the West 1 Jersey and Seashore railroad, and the 1 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing ton railroad, which are controlled by | the Pennsylvania, authorized an in- | crease of ten per cent in the wages of all permanent employees receiving 1 less than s200 a month.
 Lima, CA five and ten per cent. advance in the wages of all employees
 of the refining branch of the Standard l Oil company was announced here. | The advance affects immediately 900 | employees of the Solar refinery in this
 city, and the army of employees at
 Welker, Wood county, O.; in Oil City, l'a; Whiting, Ind; Bayonne, N. J.;
 Denver, Col. and Charleston, s. c. No
 notice of like advance has been re-
 ceiyed by tue pipeline department,
 but rumor has it that the voluntary
 advance will extend to every branch
 of the company.
 Minneapolis-In his speech at the convention of the American Fedora ton of Labor President Gompers de clared the printers had won their bat
 tie for an eight hour day, saying:
 The International Typographical
 union has practically enforced the eight hour work day in that trade.
 II has been involved in a strike of it's members since Sept. 1,1905. Since
 that time at least 200 of our local
 unions have had trouble on this ac-
 count. Some of them were out for
 only day or two. We have had about 12,000 men upon the strike roil from the first of the year. Of the
 POO or more unions involved in the eight hour difficulty at least 100 were completely successful We therefore have 5000 on strike, 1000
 working under unexpired contracts,
 and over 39,000 enjoying the eight hour day
 New York-The New York, New Haven & Hartford and the New York
 Central railroads came to an agree ment with committees representing | the firemen of the two roads affecting 1 the status of the men on the new electric locomotives, and the adjust ment committee of the Erie locomo- l tive engineers announced it had reached an understanding with the of l ficials of that system. The firemen's l committee will confer further with the | New York Central and the New York, l New Haven & Hartford officials con
 corning the questions of increased wages and shorter hours. It was
 stated at the Erie offices that t',ere
 will be no trouble in reaching an l agreement with the firemen, as Presi-
 dent Underwood's letter to Chief Han.
 nahan was not a refusal to grant con- | sessions, but simply request to hold off until settlements could be made with yardmen. switchmen, brakemen
 and other employees of the company. It was said that when these adjust
 ments have been made the demands of the firemen will be taken up. Those
 considered reasonable will be grant. l ed
 Boston.-The annual convention of
 the National Metal Trades association | composed of manufacturers of the principal cities of the country, will be
 held here beginning March 20. The | association has nearly doubled its
 membership since the convention of | last year
 Chicago.-Switchmen on the rail roads of the country will profit to the amount of nearly $6,000 900 annually through settlement reached. Under
 the new schedule of wages which HNiAt AAAeC NAACNl O1 4NbA titlDbf To every
 yard service employe will receive an addition to his wages of four cents an
 hour. The roads probably will put the l new wage schedule into effect for all
 of the 45,060 switchmen in the United
 States. This was intimated to be the plan by an official who attended the conferences In Chicago To each
 switchman the increase means s2 40
 more a week, or. approximately s125
 more annually. The advance is the
 largest granted by the railroads to
 any class of employees during the last
 70 years. It amounts to about 12 her cent, or two per cent more than has
 been given the employees of several
 eastern railroads recently.
 London.--The threatened strike of
 Iron holders in the engineerine , trade in Lancashire, England has
 been averted. The strike, had it taken
 place, would have been one of huge
 proportions