The Forrest City times., 1906-12-14
NEWS 0F THE LABOR WORLD Items ot Genera! Interest for the Busy Work
 Ingman and His Friends.

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 Philadelphia-As a result of sue cessful tests of mechanical pickers in the Pennsylvania coal mines, one branch of the child labor evil may be eliminated.
 Boston.-Boston elevated railroad company has announced an increase of wages on January 1 for it's $500 employees The increase will average about 10 cents day.
 London.-The British government has appointed committee of scien- lists to inquire into the probable economic effect of an eight-hour work ing day in the mines.
 Norfolk, Va.-The Norfolk & West ern Railway, beginning December l, will grant an increase of ten per cent in wages to all employees now receiv- ing less than $200 a month.
 Paris.-The French employers lia- blity act, recently adopted, is based upon an equal division between en- ployer and employed of the pecuniary consequences of every accident.
 New York.-There are more than 50,000 men engaged in the carriage and wagon-building industries of whom 5000 are members of the Car. riage and Wagon Builders Union of North America.
 Chicago.-The use of concrete al. ready has thrown thousands of stone masons and cutters out of work throughout the country. In some large cities whole buildings have been constructed of the material.
 apolis.-Nearly every labor union in Indiana has voted funds to aid in the erection of monument to Edwin F. Gould, late editor of the h. dianapolis Union, the official organ of organized labor in Indiana.
 New York.-The bartenders unions of the country. which are now inter nationally affiliated with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees league and Bartenders' National alliance. desire a separate international of their own.
 Calumet, Mich.-An increase of ten per cent. in the wages of all the em- rloyes at it's mines and stamp mills was announced by the Calumet X Hecla Mining company. Between 5000 and 6.000 men will be benefited by the raise.
 Altoona.-The Pennsylvania Rail- road company laid of 400 employees, taking them from all departments of the repair shops. It is expected that others will be laid off. Officials say the lay-off is only temporary. The Pennsylvania recently granted it's em- ployes 10 per cent raise in wages.
 Indianapolis-Sp provision was made at the recent convention of the International Typographical union for members who through old age are unable to do the work prescribed by the union scale. The conditions under which they may work are left to the respective local unions of which they are members.
 New York-The general strike of the Shipwrights' association in the yards of the New York and New Jersey branch of the National Metal Trades association, which begun Oc- tober l, and was regarded by the employers as in every way model strike, was declared of uncondition- ally. Since the strike began not one act of violence or attempt to intimi- date the new men employed to fill the places of strikers had been re- ported.
 ha-Profit-sharing on gigan- tic scale was established at the Wind sor Spring company, big concern in this city, when President B. F.. Windsor, the sole proprietor of the concern. presented to Charles Nc Swain, w. F. White and Frank P. Chesley, his three leading employees, one-third of the stock of the company. The present was in keeping with a promise made 13 years ago. Not withstanding the fact that Windsor has paid his superintendents big sal aries for years he has now given them stock worth, at least, $3O,000.
 Chicago.-At a meeting of the gen eral committee of the Brotherhood or Railroad TraiAmen it was officially announced by Chairman C. F. Dukes that all trainmen and yardmen Of the entire system of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul railway had been granted an increase in wages Of four cents an hour, which would become effective from November l, 1906. Chairman Dukes announced that this Increase, together with the recent ad- vance by the Chicago & Alton road, would bring every road centering in Chicago into line before another two weeks.
 Boston.-One of the most important actions taken by New England labor organizations for some time happeIsed when, at the state convention Of the building laborers' unions of the in- ternational protective union, which IS not affiliated with the A. F. Of L., de- cided to become independent and form the buildings laborers protective union of New England. The unions