The Forrest City times., 1906-08-03

No'lee has been sent out by the Ameflean Tobacco company to fla great army of employees in every stats LII me union, that hereafter it will pav dea1h benefit to the benefeiarv os any person in it's service who draws nov more than $50 week in wages rms notice affects about l50 600 men ana women. The amount to be ns{1 VIII equal the yearly wages of the dead employe up to s5O0.
 The British consul at Cherboprg ra- ports that the project for fnrming aeep-Water harbor in front of that fieheh city has been abandoned On the other hand, a decree authorizinq the building of d cement quay on the south side of the commercial hasin VIII soon be issued freport made in AprlD. By the beginning of 1907 the outer commercial port and approaches thereto are To be dredged and cleaned which will be great advantage to vessels, as it is much in need of daen- ening.
 Inc scarcity of labor is becoming an increasingly important factor in manu- iaetufing centers. In the south. where the supply had for some time been ialrly short of the demand. the number ol Iaborers has been considerably TO- daeed on account of migration to the wheat fields. In the coke region many idoorers who were able to find emnlov- ment h places where the temperature Was not so high as about the coke ovens nave done so, and the output of coke has been reduced on account of the Inadequate number of laborers.
 ]. T. Layery. of Salt Lake. Utah. president and member of the execu. tlXe committee of the State Fedora ton of Labor, has received from the Silver Bow Trades and Labor assem- plt' Butte, Mont, a copy of an "ap- peal to every central labor body in the United States to set apart Sun day, August , next. for a general. united and direct demand of Judge Frank J. Smith of Caldwell, Idaho, to either give Charles H. Mover. Will nam D. Haywood and George A. Pet tlbone an immediate trial or to ad- mt them to bail pending their trial Tor the murder of former Gov. Frank Steunenburg, Every labor body in the country is urged to adopt resolu- tions addressed to District Judge Smith
 In commenting upon trades unions and intemperance, the author asserts that, while 20 years ago practically every labor union met back of or over saloon, such is rarely the case to- day. Says he: The best substitute for the saloon is the home. Never will there be better one proposed. To assist the workingman to make his home more beautiful should then be our aim. In this the labor union is also a help. A higher standard of living, better sanitary conditions, the aboli- tion of child labor as we'll as develop ment along moral lines-in all these the labor union has a most important part. Too often do we lose sight of the social and the moral influences of the labor union. The possibilities in this direction are almost limitless, but al- ready the labor union has become a great factor in this matter. The aver age man outside of the ranks of the workingmen can hardly believe that the trades unioniSt is a man of like passions as he is, that he has the same longings, the same ambition for himself and his family. And when he realizes just what he may do to bring comfort and joy to the wife and chil- dren whom God has given him, he will be the first to give them So let us help him in his struggles. Let Us show him that we are his brothers. putting aside every feeling of patronage or of superiority. He will quickly respond to our sympathetic endeavor
 Announcement of an increase of five per cent. in the wages of all em- ployes of the Wolverine, Mohawk, Tamarack. North Kearsarge. Osceola, South Kearsarge and Ahmeek mines has been made at Calumet. Mich. The increase is entirely voluntary on the part of the various mining companies. coming without any solicitation on the part of the men, and reflects the extremely prosperous condition re sulting from a strong copper market. Nearly 6,000 men benefit from in creased wages.
 Virtual settlement of the strike of mineworkeTs in the Central Pennsyl- yania bituminous field, which began last April. was made at a conference between representatives of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America and the operators in that field. The principal terms of the settlement are: A 5.55 per cent. increase in wages for all mineworkers over the scale which existed before the strike and appi- cation of the check off system to miners. but not to laborers. The checkoff was really the only obsta- cle in the final discussion of the terms of the settlement. Thirty thousand men were affected by the strike in central Pennsylvania.
 The St Paul labor unions have unanimously decided to take an inde- pendent part in politics, and at the
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