Connecticut western news., 1906-11-15
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The demands of the engineers em- ployed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad company were adjusted at a conference between Pres ident w. H. Truesdale and the repre- sentatives of the engineers. The en- gineers were granted ten hour day and increases in wages, Polling of the members of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Bremen employed by the Erie railroad resulted in an almost unani- nous decision in favor of a strike. The firemen on the ferryboats and tugs Of the Erie have formulated demands for an increase in pay of S20 month and a decrease in the working hours. There is n widespread feeling among em- ployees of every class on eveSS rail road entering New York that they should get a saare of the prosperity the companies are enjoying. The en- gineers and firemen of forty-two lines west of Chicago have made demands for better pay and shorter hours.
 There Is every reason to believe that
 the government will soon institute proceedings against the Standard oil company. The proceedings will be brought under the Sherman antitrust act with the view of disSolving the company and restoring to each of the seventy-five or eighty constituent com panies its proportionate share of the stock and also to compel the ob- servance of the law prohibiting them from entering into any contract Tor agreement with each other to maintain the price of oil. John D. Rockefeller and other officials of the company may be prosecuted criminally under the Sherman antitrust law. Suits were filed in the circuit court at Lima, O., by Attorney General Ellis of Ohio against four subsidiary companies said to be controlled by the Standard oil company of New Jersey to prevent the further operation of the alleged com bination known as the Standard Oil trust.
 It became known in Wall street that practically all the great railroad and industrial corporations of the country have decided to increase the prevailing rate of wages to their employees. If was predicted that this would follow the action of the Pennsylvania railroad management in increasing the wages of its army of 165,000 men nearly SIP 100000. One reason for the action
 which reported that the cost of living is now the highest in twenty years. The Pittsburg federal grand jury in- dicted Frank L. Emmett. James Joy Dunn and Charles L. Close, employees of a subsidiary concern of the United States Steel corporation. They are
 charged with defrauding the United States by passing defective boiler tubes. Some of these tubes, accord
 ing to the jury, are in use on the bat
 tleship Louisiana, on which President
 Roosevelt is now being carried to Pan- anna, and on other warships.
 Unprecedented in the history of the
 army of the United States is the ac- ton of the president in dismissing in disgrace an entire battalion of colored troops because of their failure to dis close the identity of some of their number who were guilty of violence and murder at Brownsville, Tex, last August. The president also censures | Colonel Pitcher. a white officer, charg' ed with casting slurs upon the negro l soldiers.
 Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock will retire from President Roosevelt's
 cabinet March 4, and James K. Gar l field, at present commissioner of corpo-
 rations, will succeed him. The presi-
 dent also announced the appointment ] of Attorney General Moody as justice 1 of the supreme court of the United l States to succeed Justice Brown. Mir.
 Moody will probably retire from the department of justice next month. l President Roosevelt started on his ! trip to Panama. to which he is making i the voyage on the battleship Louisiana. ] the finest vessel in the navy and second ] as n fighting machine to none in the world except perhaps the British Dread 1 nought. This is the first time that a l president has gone on visit to coun- | try beyond the United States borders. i The president Is accompanied by Mrs.