The Forrest City times., 1906-08-03

Iuhographers' international union ..nonded s5.500 in death benefits last month. This organization is now work ;ny 5g hours per week, but is formulat- ,,e demand for an eight-hou day.
 report from Antwerp states that never before has the demand been so nreat from the United States, at any o,a time. for cement as at the present time one vessel recently took 6,100 ,ops of cement from Antwerp to San Francisco.
 Germany can now boast of having tbe strongest labor union in the world. Until recently it was sup nosed that the United Mine Workers 1America occupied this proud posi- i'm By recent statistics the German Metal Workers union is on top.
 Al conference in Cleveland be- tween representatives of the miners organization and the owners of the largest coal mines in Ohio, located in district No. 1. in the southwestern part of the state. the strike in that section WAS declared off. The 1904 scale, it is understood, was agreed to.
 An advance Of five per cent. in wages in cotton mills in Boston and other cities. towns and villages of southern Massachusetts and Rhode Is land. went into effect July g. About
 
 the inception of the upward move ment in mill wages early in the year, 165,Go0 textile operatives in the New England states have had their pay ad yauced 10 l4 per cent.
 The British yice-counsel at St. Malo writes with regard to the Newfound- land fishing trade, in which most of the St Malo population are engaged during four or five months in the year, that provisions. fshhooks, etc, SUD- piled for the ships in that trade do not pay duty provided the goods are warehoused at St. Malo, and put on board the vessels which are to use them during the season. He says that
 
 done but he never saw any biscuit of British manufacture, although cases of American bread" are to be seen.
 The journeymen plumbers in Brook lyn to the number of about l 200 went on strike over the demand for an in crease in pay from s475 to s a day. They say that the boss plumbers axeed two years ago to make the in crease from July 2, 1906. but that they now want to have the date for the in crease put off until October l. At the Headquarters of the strikers it was said that 50 employers hau already given in to their demands. Each em- pioye returning to work is taxed one dollar day to aid the union in prose- outing the fight.
 forty-eight strikers in the wall pa per factories of Janeway & Go. and Janeway & Carpenter at New Bruns- WICK, N. J., have thrown out of work eoO employees and practically closed the two plants. July l every year lhe anlon and the employers sign contract for the year. This time the printers demanded that each man work b hours weekly and be paid TOT 63 hours. This means a half hol- laaF every Saturday in the year, While heretofore it has been granted only in the summer Another demand IS that when a union man is off for Is lNs, I.Il IN !, tne next man, who shall receive pay lof two men for running both ma ehlhes. The employers refuse to agree 10 these terms. All the wall paper manufacturers in the UniteA s'ates may become involved in the nsht with the unions.
 fatternmakers' association is to move Its international headquarters rom New York to Cincinnati.
 The average wage of working women su England is only about $l75 a week, assel's recent magazine writer of uat country In some lines of em- pioyiheht, such as the Lancaster textile ''ue' wages may run to five dollars "eeA' but the general average is re- uu'ed by the great number of the lit " skilled in other lines, who may "ofA one month in an envelope or papef bag factory, the next in a cary s factory, or at preserving fruit a''ef board and lodging are paid there "eqaently remains only about % cents week With which to meet every claim ,o' dress and other requirements -'eh this pittance is not secure. be- s4uee oI the custom that many employ .'S nave Of docking the workers at e'5 opportunity This is most often spHe under the plea of damaged ma ,,"'aery A girl who earned two dol .a .a'e a week had 62 cents deducted for m a'e breaking of shuttle-perhaps by ~ means her fault. In one instance sn record, $25 was collected, at 9 cents mead. in room of 100 girls, for the stool.
 mere are 1.175 commissioned organ Labor. >''' eD - ''''0-i u ihe Bridge and Structural Iron ,olAefs have reported to labor head as~ l 'efs that the membership is gen .aiiy at work, although the strike ,ss' a'iiSe me alleged bridge and building