The Forrest City times., 1906-10-26

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 On July 9. 1905. Boston Newsboys' union passed q motion to establish newsboys' scholarship at Harvard; the union proposed to raise 5000 for the purpose, and s100 was appropriated by the organization to start the fund. The newspaper publishers, the busl- ness men. the labor unions and the general public imme fiately took to the project. and in a few weeks half the amount necessary for the scholar ship was subscribed.
 The Carpenters annual convention approved q suggestion made by See- retary Duffy in his annual report that the brotherhood purchase house in Indianapolis. where the headquarters are at present located. Two propo- sitions were offered by Secretary Duffy. one to build a ten-story build i ing at an expense of $l40.000, and the other for an expenditure of S40,- 900 for the purchase of building in the heart of Indianapolis and the re- modelling of the same. The latter proposition was adopted.
 The United Brotherhood of Carpen- 1 ters and Joiners. in annual session at Niagara Falls, adopted a resolution which calls for legislation against Jap anese immigration. X California del i egate introduced the resolution, and, 1 speaking upon the subject, he said that l Japanese coolies were most undesir- i able as residents of this country. He also asserted that the Japs in Cal l ifornia were driving out both the whites and the Chinese. National 1 President Huber was instructed to 1 take the matter up to the proper off. cials at Washington.
 By the amendment to the labor law regulating the employment of ehildsen. enacted by the last legislature and 1 taking effect October l. no person un. l der 16 may be employed in any fac l tory in New York state before a. m i or after Il D. m. In New York city 1 the employment of children under 16 1 is prohibited after p. m. in any mer. cantile establishment. business office 1 telegraph office, restaurant, hotel or apartment house. CT in the distribu. ton of merchandise or messages. Nc child under 16 and no woman may work in any mine or quarry
 The Order of Railway Photographers has just closed an agreement with the Long Island Railway company, by which the operators in the employ of the company secure a substantial ad. vance in wages The increase will amount to about $10.000 per year in the aggregate. The telegrapehrs gen. eral committee has been in communi. cation with the officials of the com. pany since the first of last July. Sev, eral conferences have been held. ne gotiations finally resulting as stated. The new scale of wages goes in force from the 1st of September.
 The petition of the trainmen of the /. California Northwestern railroad for an increase of salary has been grant ed. The increase went into effect on Oct. l, and will result in giving each of the trainmen an increase of about 20 per cent. Under the new schedule the men will receive what is known as the standard wage of railroaders. the same as is paid on the Southern Pacific, and it amounts to d substan- tial sum to each man. President Arthur W Foster of the California Northwestern. and his associates are held in the highest esteem by their men. and no strike or labor troubles ever occur on this road.
 According to many labor leaders and economists. workers today are better paid by from 10 to 40 per cent, and in some cases almost as high as 70 per cent, than two decades ago. ] Their ho.rs are shorter. and ii is as serted they are better fed. better ! clothed, and better housed. that their children are better educated; that their environments is happier. and shat they have more leisure to enjoy the benefits of all the refining in. 1 tiuences of life
 The department of justice has taken treasures to enforce the eight-hour law, and instructions have been sent to special agents of the department in various parts of the country to in. Yestigate as to whether there have been any violations of that law on the part of contractors engaged in public works. As complaints have been made of such violations by the contractors employed in the improvement of the Ohio river, special instructions have been sent to the special agents in that section to make a thorough inyes- tigation, and any evidence collected will be placed in the hands of the United States attorneys for prosecu- ton, if in their judgment the facts warrant it.
 The employees of White G. Co.'S col fiery at WadesyilIe, Pa. on strike for an increase of wages, have been or. dered back by the officers of the lnited Mine Workers.
 At the International Steam Fn. gineers' union convention, which has lust ended Now YorIr p,ado .,, ,....-1.