The Forrest City times., 1906-07-27

which met in Chicago.
 c,ban pharmacies have great diffi- .,,y in obtaining good clerks. The oay ~ is from s25 to $lOo month, with ,bree t nights off a week.
 Tho mayor of Boston has notified the ,,.atr,cal Workers union that the -.on -,r employed in the fire alarm depart nent will be put on an eight-hour basis.
 rho number of local unions chartered ,r the Industrial Workers of the world from July 1, 1905, to May 20. ,oos was 419. exclusive of the Western rederation Of Miners.
 rba latest union formation is the uorine Drivers and Tenders union. re- .antly organized at Cleveland. benches are to be established in other aort cities en the lakes and the sea- board.
 The Boot and Shoe Workers Nation ., rfion. headquarters at Boston, has nnvards of s100000 in it's international ,reasury. and has within the past few rears expended s300,000 in sick and death benefits
 The general strike of Plumbers r,ion No. ?. of New York, for an in- orease of wages from S475 to s525 a dav drought out about ,500 men and affects about S00 buildings. These in cude 400 fiat houses which are near completion Plumbers are in great de- mand.
 The B.adley mine of the United States Coal company at Wheeling, w. Va was the scene of q riot in which one miner was killed and a number wounded as well as several guards One miner. foreigner. was killed in stantly from a shot by a guard. The euards. il is said. had been drinking.
 Upon the complaint of the Heusner Baking company of Chicago that the Bakers union is attempting to destroy its business by circulating pamphlets and literature declaring that the firm is unfair to organized labor Judge Carpenter granted an injunctional or der to the concern. By the terms of the order members of the union are restrained from interfering with the employees or from peddling the pamph- lets
 John Burns. as president of the local government board in England. says that the government will take up the old age pensions question when the report Of the poor law commission has been received. Personally he con siders that il would be best, simplest and fairest. in inaugurating an old age pensions scheme, to give every one pension of five shillings per week in reaching the age of 65, military, naval, civil and municipal pensioners to be excluded.
 In the quarterly bulletin of the New York state department of labor. Com missioner Sherman calls attention to the fact that the figures show that dur ing the first three months of this year the average wages of wage earners were three dollars, as compared with Ns5 during the same period last year, and were much higher than the aver age wages usually earned. A year ago the average quarterly earnings of or sanized wage workers were only $1S7, as compared with s212 this year. But last year the average duration of em- poyment in the three months was only Do days, as compared with Fl days this year. In no recent year has the aver age number of days of employment in the hrst quarter exceeded 6S. There was net gain of nine labor unions tlt going out of existence) during the sH months ended on March 30, making tue total number of unions in the state 14ll. Their membership is 394,270, saih or three per cent. in six months
 The 200 holders and coremakers in all the job and machine foundries of oolumouS O., with the exception of onrien Brothers, H. Loudenstager's and Edwin Faultons shops. went on 'uihe Tor an increase in wages of p .elts day over the present scale of s-@ Tor holders and $25O for core mahefs. The new scale demanded is 1lV for holders and s2.75 for core makers.
 aAs fearful stories of hardships in 'Ne coal mines of the United States sp'heh of by the American delegates " .he miners international congress ue'd at London. England, recently, ~, ,eie completely put in the shade by sae ueiegates from Germany and Bel sum. These men told of women and elDuien working like slaves in the 4'ieS alongside the men and all at ,rssafiy ,r plttances. In one district -s .SV'V women worked underground.
 Ae men were paid on an average 60 seA's per shift of l2 hours, and in or
 VI 'o Keep the homes going the wom- su and children also worked shifts of ..o0 ten to l2 hours, for which they .e'e'Ved from IS to 26 cents and were s'aa to get it. Compared with these discs.
 Ah Increase in wages which will af- ~, se' majority of the cotton-mill oper- ,'es 1, ln Rhode Island was announced
 a, '. There are about p ,000 cotton s.., operatives in the state, three ,ssn N oI whom work in the mills con-