The Forrest City times., 1906-08-31

ists and third vice president of the American Federation of Labor. has is- sued circular to the employers ex. 1 plaining the International associa. tion's reasons for agitating for an eight-hour work day at the present 1 time. The machinists have voted in favor of making a general demand for a shorter work day, but the date for l its introduction has not yet been l fixed
 "A temporary restraining order pro- l hibiting the board of directors of the Order of Railroad Photographers from proceeding further with the trial of charges against Lewis K Marr, O.
 Philadelphia, suspended secretary of 1 the board, and making any disburse- ments of the mortuary fund which
 Marr formerly controlled, was issued l by Judge Finkelnburg of the United
 states circuit court. at St Louis. The charges against Marr are that he at tempted to obtain the defeat of the telegraphers' eight-hour law in Mary l land.
 The department of justice at Wash. ington announced that 1t has received a large number of affidavits from Der. sons residing in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama to the effect that the Louisville X Nashville railroad. oper- ating in those states. had discharged or threatened to discharge employees
 because they were members of labor unions. The department has n- structed the United States attorneys in these states to commence proceed ings against the road unSer section 10 of the act of 1898. It is understood that the railroad company will raise the question of the constitutionalitv Of this section of the act and will
 fight the case in the courts.
 1 Bricklayers and Masons' Interna- tional union, which is not affiliated
 with the A. F. of L., comments the 4.
 f. of l.. stand for independent politi. cal action. Secretary Dobson, in l letter says that the union people should not rely solely upon their own efforts in the political campaign, but l should endeavor to interest men who are not members of unions. The mat i ter is of great importance to non- union as well as union men. he said,
 and the nonunion man should be l brought to see this. He said that it i would be great mistake if the union
 leaders confined the movement 10 their own people and did not reach
 out for the votes of the nonunon men.
 Col Ethelbert Stewart of the feder-
 al bureau of labor, in the eleventh spe- cial report of the commissioner of la.
 bor, which is devoted to Regulation
 and Restriction of Output" reports on
 the industries of bituminous coal,
 machinery, glass. pottery. slaughter
 ing and meat packing, brick making
 and printing and publishing This is
 the first official report on the subject
 of restriction and regulation of output
 ever prepared in this or any other
 country, although the subject has been
 discussed so much In the last decade.
 Besides it's treatment of the question
 of restriction, the information em- bodied in the report throws a great
 deal of new light upon the relations
 between employers and employees.
 comprehending reports for 30 trades.
 These 30 trades are of a rank and im- 1 portance that embrace nearly all. if
 not all, those which are supposed to
 have restriction or regulation of out ! put. IL is therefore fairly and fully
 representative collection of facts and
 can be considered as inclusive in a
 large degree of the conditions relating l f.n thAS1 tp oil
 Dr. A. NJ Sakolski of John Hopkins
 university has published a pamphlet 1 on The Finances of American Trades 1 Unions The extent of their re-
 sources will amaze the average read | CT, says the Labor Tribune of Pitts l burg. The history of American trades l unionism has been q slow but steady progress from normal dues and small 1 benefits toward the high dues and large benefits which have long pre- | vailed in the English unions. This has been accompanied by slow process , of centralizing union funds, as in the case of the Iron Holders union. where only of the 25 cents weekly dues are retained by the local The amounts l tional or international unions have grown to large proportions. The United Mine Workers raised s2,225.. S102S for the strike of 1902. this be- ing supplemented by S4l9.954.14 con. tributed by other unions and the pub lie. This latter sum. by the way. ia said to be the largest ever raised for strike purposes outside the trade im- l mediately affected The International Typographical union in 1903 raised from 30 to 35 cents per month. the assessment for it's defense fund while in 1904 its convention ordered a
 Two thousand gold beaters are on strike in New York against the open shop. Delegate James McCabe of the Gold Beaters' union announced that the strike affects 92 firms It was or. dered, he said, for the purpose of driv. ing out the middleman or small con- tractors who take contracts from the large manufacturers and who employ their men on the open shop plan.