Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-25
The Regiment of God.

Every mason in the quarry, every buii1-
 CT on the shore,
 Every woodman in the forset, every boat
 man at the oar,
 Hewing wood and drawing water, split
 ting stones and clearing sod.
 All the dusty ranks of labor in the reg
 iment of God.
 March together toward His temple, do
 the task His hands prepare: <. Honest toll is holy service. faithful work N is praise and prayer.
 .NTechnica1 World Magazine
 Easton, Pa.-The 600 men employed in the Lehigh Valley railroad shops in wages had been increased, dating from the first of the year. The ad- vance effects all classes of labor, from the yardmen to the most skilled me- chanic in the shops. The increase is graduated, ranging from to cents an hour.
 Calumet, Mich.-Striking miners at the Mass Consolidated mine rejected the company's proposal that they re- ture to work pending a settlement of the wage question. The discontented employees consist almost entirely of Films. The English and Austrians are willing to work, but will not do so un- til the Films do also. Five hundred men are idle.
 Washington.-Consul Frank S. Han nah, writing from Magdeburg, says that on November IT was celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the workmens insurance ance, which is compulsory, is designed to assist the laboring classes when they are incapacitated for work owing Ito accident, sickness or old age, and 4kthas grown in the past 25 years to be one of the largest and most beneficial systems of insurance ever devised. During this period overt $952, ,00O,0 900 has been paid out to 60,000,000 people. The small premiums for this insur- ance, which are paid by the cancella- tion of stamps and the accruing per sonal benefits, etc., were treated in a special publication by the bureau of manufactures entitled Life Insurance in Foreign Countries"
 Washing ngton.-James Duncan, first vice president of the A. F. of L., speaking of the labor movement as a social force, says: This movement that we are engaged in is a real eX- republication of the theory of evolu- tion, and on that account, if no other, it is bound to be one of the most 1oc Of Too often it is the case that the mis- takes we make are heralded abroad as monumental, while the virtues that are inherent in the cause of or ganized labor are designedly kept in the background. It is fact that is susceptible of proof that our move ment is not generally understood. It is equally true that as it's purposes are understood and appreciated people will see that we stand for the needs >6ot humanity and the betterment of the race The reduction in the hours of labor means the improvement of the individual working man by mak- ing 1t possible to afford him greater leisure for the increase of his mental
  other standpoint the labor movement justifies itself. It is one of the strong est forces to-day at work for elimina tion of financial panics. Through their increased intelligence, due to this same leisure to which I allude, working people have become the best consumers of the products that by their sale serve to keep up the healthy flow in the circulation of money.
 Boston-Two international conven- tions have already been ordered for Boston in 1907. The new United Boilermakers' International will con- vene here in April. The mammoth International Brotherhood of Team sters' convention will be held in August c. P. Shea, the present in- ternational president, is Boston man.
 Cleveland, Ohio.-President Gom- pers has uncovered the conspiracy which sought to place the trade unions ,, in a position advocating the subsidy bill. It has been discovered that a man named Smith, whose office is in the Standard Oil building in this city paid for the printing and distribution of circulars asking labor organizations to pass resolutions favoring the sub sidy bill The circulars said that the bill was in the intepest of labor in this country. All unions misled into adopting the resolutions have re- Scinded their action and notified con gross. The Marine Trades council of New York, which was given as the author of the resolutions favoring the ship subsidy bill, has repudiated them. The bill provides for the compulsory naval service of seamon who work on subsidized vessels.
 Eureka, Cal.-ln battle between union and nonunion longshoremen one nonunion man was killed, one fa- ! tally shot, and one union man probab- ly fatally shot.
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