The Forrest City times., 1906-12-14

union men during the last three years by the unions of Sweden.
 New orleans.-It was announced by General Manager Curran of the New 1 orleans and Northeastern. Alabama & Vlcksburg and Vicksburg, Shreve- port X Pacific railroads. that 500 em. pioyes of these lines have been granted increases in wages. in some cases dating from October and others November 1.
 Vlenna-The Austrian law compels l mlne owners to build rescue cham. bers' underground. The room mnst De large enough to hold at least 24 people, and must be provided with 'ihhed food, medicine chest, first aid material, inhalation apparatus. and compressed oxygen in cylinders suffi- cient to last at least three days.
 New York.-E. H. Gary. chairman o1 the board of directors of the United states Steel corporation, announced that the wages of common labor in the plants of the subsidiary com. panles of the United States Steal cor. 1 poration will be increased ten cants day. beginning May 1 next. The wage Of day and turn labor will be ad. Justed accordingly.
 Fall River-Fall Rivers cotton miil employees won battle for an in- crease in wages, and 30,eO0 operatives Will come under a schedule giving them ten per cent. more than the present rate. The granting of the ad- vance by the manufacturers prevent Cd strike, the workmen having voted at meetings to stop work in all mills II they new schedule was not accepted.
 New fork.-The American Fedora. ton of Labor is about to conduct an 1 investigation of number of problems confronting the wage earners of tbis country, the principal matters being the apprenticeship question; displaee. ment of child labor by the machine. graduates or the trade school, manual training schools and schools of tech. noiogy; child labor and insanitary con. ditions in home and shop.
 New York=The engineers on tbe New Haven railroad make these de- mands: raise in wages from three and one-half to four cents per hour. 100 miles to constitute a days work on the new electric engines, and all distance over this amount to be paid for as overtime; for engineers work. ing on time an 11-hour day instead of l2 hours, as at present; 10 per cent increase for yard men.
 Fall River, Mass-The 90 900 opera. tives in the cotton mills of this city have entered upon new scale of wages, 10 per cent higher than hith- erto, and nominally the schedule in force prior to 1903 Inasmuch as many changes have been made since last year, wages actually will be l higher than in 1903. It is reckoned that nearly s30000 more will be put in | circulation weekly because of the ad. vance
 1 Minneapolis-The American Fed eration of Labor settled the old fight as to jurisdiction between the brewery workers, engineers, firemen and team sters by allowing each organization to establish itself under separate charter. The convention refused to I adopt a resolution introduced by Vic tor l.. Berger, socialist, of Milwaukee. instructing all affiliated bodies ito hold absolutely aloof from any con nection with the militia"
 Lond on-By hereditary training and environment women have been | left far behind men in development, and yet it is a fact that there are now in Great Britain about 135,000 women organized out of possible l 5000, ,000 while there are but 2,000,000 men trade unionists out of possible 100000.
 Boston.-Frank K. Foster of this city, in his report to the A. F. of l.. convention as one Of the fraternal del l egates to this years British trades congress, describes the sessions brief | ly thus: At the outset of this report it may be we'll to call your attention to the fact that the British trades union congress devotes it's delibera- tions almost exclusively to the con sideration of legislative affairs, and IS program is therefore bare of many 1 issues which lend variety if not har- mony to the business of our own fed eration conventions. It deals. for in stance, with little propaganda of or ganization among the respective trades. the label agitation is an almost l unknown quantity, 1t does not under take to assist financially its affiliated bodies in periods of industrial dis | putes.
 Standardization Truesdale of the Lackawanna railroad, announced the company would grant ten-hour day to all trainmen in its employ. 1 Chicago-Railway construction work | in all parts of the country, espe- cially in the west, is being seriously | retarded by the inability of the roads to get enough common laborers. It is estimated that in the west alone n n