The Forrest City times., 1906-06-29

-~N "A'hlh lne past Is months Near ly all suffered from consumption
 caused ty the exposure to rain and all
 soIls CT weather. During the IS
 months the union paid & 200 in death
 oehehts and s3,S00 to those on the sick list.
 The organized workingmen of the Ohlted States are to have a congress slohaI labor committee similar to inc parliamentary committee of Great Rri- tam. It's object will be to aid union
 men to be elected to congress. There
 VIII also be state committees 10 urge
 the selection of labor men to the legis
 idtures. The proposition will be con sldered hy the next convention of fhe
 American Federation of Labor. which meets in Minneapolis in November President Gompers and other leaders
 ol the labor movement are in favor of
 soch a committee and they will sup
 port ihe move before the convention.
 More Fuss Than Feathers" is the way the Labor World of Duluth and SuperloI eharacterizes recent muck
 raklng. There has been much said or late of trust busting,'" the maga-
 zine declares. There have also been many exposures of corporate iniquity;
 the teef trust, Standard Oil, the coal l trust, paper trust, drug trust, and the
 railroads all coming in for their sev-
 era shares in the exposed rottenness
 To dale, however not one really effec- tive How has been given any of these unld"ial and unconseionable combina-
 tions against the public welfare.
 Strikes are becoming fewer in the United States every year. In Great Britain the coneiliation boards have virtually eliminated strikes During
 the past three years few strikes have been called in that country. and they
 We're small The workingmen of the Unitei States are gradually doing away With strikes by resorting to arbitra- ton or making joint trade agreements The sHtatest strikes Chicago has had
 were called by new organizations. The
 rapltity with which workingmen would
 join EeW unions prevented the educa- ton of the members on trade union
 lines When a new union strikes 1t is almost certain to lose. It's members generally never had any experience in
 strikes If an old union man would
 ende4Vor 10 stop the strike he would
 be hoGied at and looked upon as traitor 70 the labor cause. But after
 the strike has been lost and the union I disrupted it is too late to discuss who
 Was 10 blame.IChicago American. The United Mine Worker of Indian apolis discovers that labor has an in- terest in preserving Niagara. "To the 1 coal lainers the preservation Of Mia
 gara falls may be a subject of even more interest and importance than it
 is at present when they realize just
 what effect the use of Niagara power by manufacturing establishments and
 railroads will have upon them person. i ally. The New York Central railroad has arranged for 60,000-horse power per
 year to run it's entire western division
 now run by coal This, of course. dia- l places the coal which would otherw. e be mined by American miners, al t-z
 same tune helping to ruin the tll 5. | The Lackawanna Steel company E:.5
 arranged for an enormous amount f i Niagara power, to displace it's use If coal. II seems quite as unreasonable l for congress to permit these railroad
 and manufacturing companies to inn l port power from the Dominion of Can l ada-as will be done if the present l plans of suca concerns are not frus- l trated-as to permit them to import l labor itself. The power displacing coal l and the labor which mines it in the same manner as imported labor would i displaCe native workmen.
 Four unions were added last week to 1 the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and ] Butcher Workmen of America. Two of i them are located in Chicago-the 1 butchers and agemakers of the i North side. During the strike TWO years l ago they were affiliated with the Anal l gamated. but withdrew later. Michael l Donnely presided at the installation 1 of officers and then left for an organi- zation trip south. The Amalgamated i had 56. 900 members at the time of the ] stockyards strike. Ii now has 10000, i but all are from the ranks of the high
 est skilled butcher wOrkmen. The last
 international convention adopted
 death benefit of Sl50. It also left to the
 referendum a proposition 10 pay sick
 benefits of five dollars a week. The
 vote is now being taken, and President Donnelly says it Is sure of passage. 1 Another advanced move of the butcher
 workmen is the mailing to each mem- i Der every month of the official journal. Homer D. Call, the international secre-
 tary. IS the editor. The Amalgamated ! has 30 unions in Illinois outside of Chi
 cago, and 150 in the United States. We are succeeding beyond our eXpee-
 tations." said President Donnelly T am well pleased with the future pros
 poets of the union '
 After a four weeks session the seventh biennial convention of the
 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers adjourned sine die to meet in Colum-
 bus. o two years hence. The eonyen-
 ton just closed has transacted much ! hr,ci