The Forrest City times., 1907-01-11
NEWS 0F THE LABOR WORLD 1 Items of General Interest for the Busy Work
 ngman and His Friends.


Biddeford. Me.-The Pepperill Man ufacturing company announced an ad- vance in wages of about five per cent. The new rate goes into effect Decem- Der 31 About 5000 are employed. Lawrence. Mass.-Notice of in- creases in the wages of 6.000 employees of the Pacific mills and the 1,200 em- ployes of the Everett mills were post ed. The amount of the increase will be about 7ls per cent.
 Schenectady. N. Y.-The strike at the General Electric Works is settled and the men returned to their places. The men have waived the reinstate- ment of three discharged draughts- men. for whom the strike was called. Pittsburg. fa-The extra Christmas pay 1t the mills, furnaces. offices, stores and factories in the Pittsburg district exceeded $10000,0 900. This estimated was furnished by the banks which make up many of the pay rolls Joliet. Ill.-The United States Steel corporation announced that the wages of it's 5000 employees in the Joliet mills will be increased January |. Common laborers will receive ten cents day additional and the other grades will be benefited proportionately. St. Paul, Minn.-Representa of the Brotherhood of Trainmen in the west are congregating in this city for the purpose of entering demand for an increase in pay. They represent the lines west of Chicago The de mands grow out of concessions grant ed the sWitchmen by the railroads last October.
 Chieago.-Twenty thousand men, 1000 of this number living in and around Chicago. employees of the Hi nCIE Steel company, were notified that the company would put into effect a ten per gent. increase of wages Janu- ary 1. TiHs increase in wages will add between s1.600 900 and s2,000,000 per annum to thA eompany's pay roll. Chicago.-hfhis city never was so free from strikes and lockouts as on this Christmas. In many cases em. ployes have voluntarily increased | wages from five to ten per cent, and in neither the Federation of Labor nol the Associated Building Trades is | there q strike pending of any magni tude.
 Salem, Mass.-An increase of five per cent. in wages was announced al the mills of the Naumkeag Steam Cot ton company of this city. The in crease went into effect December 3f and will apply to about 1.500 em l ployes. The Naumkeag company has | never cut the wages of it's mill hands to conform to the prices paid in other cities.
 Braddock, Pa.-Twenty-six thousand employees of the United States SteeI corporatoon and 17,000 workmen ot the Westinghouse industries in this vicinity had the shortest possible holi day this season. Pressure of big or ders for quick shipment has kept all the mills and factories working to the highest capacity the past four years almost without cessation of day
 Washington.-An important decision has been rendered by Secretary Straus Of the department of commerce and labor as to the right of state to in duce immigration to that state. The decision holds, in brief, that in the cir eumstances there is no violation of the immigration laws or of the law to pro- hibit the importation of alien con | ahnraEg tn hn ,.g state of South Carolina. in this partic- ular easel. in encouraging immigra- tfon to that state or in paying the nee essary expenses of the immigrants in coming to the state.
 Easton. Pat was announced here that the Lehigh Valley Railroad com pany had increased the wages of it's employees in the transportation de | partment The advance ranges from l0 to 20 per cent. and dates from De cember ].
 Indianapolis-It is announced that the Big Four will grant an increase of eight per cent. to the engineers over it's entire system. This is said to be agreeable to the men. The increase IS to become effective on the first of the year
 Chicago.-A general demand from members of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Frainmen, the two big rail Way unions, is to be presented to the managements of railways west of Chi eago. Eighthour days and an in- crease of 15 per cent in wages is the demand to be made. which in the az gregate will meth an increase in pay of nearly 20 per cent Dispatches from St. Louis received by local railway men announced that the action was taken by the railway men-in that city and it is expected that similar de mands will be made by the local unions.
 Baltimore, Md-About 2.000 em. ployes of the Western Maryland rail road were given a substantial advance in wages beginning New Years day The trainmen. engineers and yardmen are the workers who gain by the ad.