The Forrest City times., 1906-11-09

There are q female stevedores in the United States
 A pension plan for aged and dis abled employees will be introduced by the Boston X Maine railroad by Janu- ary l. at the earliest. and probably, it was said, not until July l of next year
 Saturday half holidays are now grantel during the months of June, July. August and September to the skilled mechanics and laborers and all employees in the classified service at the navy yards and naval stations of the United States. The same benefit | is extended ill another general order issued by the government to the skilled mechanics. laborers and em- 1 ployes in the classified service of the government printing office at Wash l ington
 For ten years l made as desperate fight against organized labor as was ever made by mortal man It cost me considerably over sf,000,000 to learn that there is no labor so skilled, so l intelligent so faithful, as that which 1 is governed by an organization whose officials are well-balanced, level-head- ed men. now employ none but or ganized labor, and never have the least trouble, each believing that the one has no right to oppress the oth- | er," is the manner in which Potter Palmer is being quoted in labor jour nals
 A peaceful boycott by labor unions is upheld in a decision given by Judge Kirby at Louisville Ky. While not countenancing violence in any way the decision declares that the consti- tuition gives every laborer the right to quit work whenever he wishes, wheth- CT with or without reason, and that what one man can do alone is not unlawful for a number of men to do jointly. Furthermore, it declared that laborers have the right to exert the power of persuasion if this power is exerted peacefully He also declared that 1t is the labOrer's right to with draw his own patronage from a firm which Is unfriendly.
 A verdict of guilty was returned at Boston in test case brought by the government against William H. Ellis. a local contractor who was charged with violating the federal eight hour law on work at the Charlestown navy yard. The case resulted from com plaints made by labor leaders who held that Ellis was employing men nine hours day on government work.
 The right of laborers to organize unions and to utilize such organiza- tions by instituting a strike is an ex- ercise of the common law right of every citizen to pursue his calling. whether of labor or business. as he in ais Judgment thinks fit The unions have right to determine what kind of workmen shall compose the union This is the sweeping ruling of the su- preme court of Massachusetts in a de- elslon handed down in the case of an appeal from an injunction obtained by the stone pointers against the stone cutters After going on to say in ef- feet that one union may legally com pine against another union. even to the point of disaster to the union combined against, the court rules that it Is not legal for a union to in- volye an innocent third party in it's dispute.
 Chinese furniture trade workers in Victoria. Australia. outaumber the Europeans by 6SS to I40.
 one thousand switchtenders em- ployed in Chicago. a big per cent of whom are crippled and incapacitated Tor other work. completed the oreani. zatlon of union The men are maid a maximum wage of $55 month. and they declare that if they refused to remain al their posts the roads would De compelled to hire able bodied men 10 do the work at a much higher wage. The officers have rot vet framed their demands for increased wages and shorter hours.