Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-07

f 'Heii operatlVeS on half time "ehf into effect at most of the spin- nlng mills in Lancashire The num- pef pr unemployed in the cotton trade pss increased to 250,000, comprising peth splnners and weavers. The oper- atlVas are determined to maintain thep fight with the employers. which began owing to their demand for the oisihissal of non-unionist workers from the Helene Mill, at Accrington. The conflict will continue as long as the funds of the operatives' trades unlon last, and 1t is estimated that thls will be about three or four weeks. Lowell, Mass.-A demand for an ad- vance in wages of 10 Fer cent, made by the loom fiXers Of the city, created situation which may involve the 2O,- Ooo cotton operatives here While the demand is made only by the loom fix. CTS 900 in number, it is equivalent to asking for increase for 19,000 cper. atlVes, since ar increase cannot be given to them without applying 1t to all the help. The mill agents have expressed {, willingness to discuss the matter With a--cnmnlittee from tho loon, f1xers' union but it is said that the present condition of the cottcn in- dustry would not warrant an increase. York, Pa.-Employes of the York Railway company were given a pleas ant surprise when informed by the president, Gordon Campbell, that their wages had been increased one cent per hour in the rate of pay The in crease, however. is only for those who have served the company four years. Another feature, however, was the ax-. tra employees and employees will here- after receive a minimum of $2O for a half month when they have not enough work to make up that sum at. the present rate of pay. EddystCne, Pa.-That there will be boom not only in Eddystone and LeiperVille owing 10 the establishment of the Baldwin Locomotive works at the former borough, but also in all adjoining Delaware county; ljoronghs, IS indicated by the official statement emanating from the big company, to the effect that it is to spend s500,o0O III UCOb'iltto itS SlLG UI US MOEkS, NIlu q corresponding increase in it's output of locomotives and tie number of it's employees
 Philadelphia, Pa.-NVith the opening of the new year the wages of the mo- tormen and conductors of Philadel. nhia's street railway system were automatically increased one cent an hour, in accordance with a plan adopt, ed some time ago. First-year men will receive P cents an hour, second year men 23, third-year men 231A and fourth-year men 24 These rates will be increased until all men in the serv. ice of the company five years receive B cents an hour.
 Gedalia, Mo.-A number of Missouri, Kansas X Texas car men, who have been on strike since last September, when the company refused to recog- niZe members of the car mems union employed in the north and south dis tricts of that line as one body, re- turned to work. It was stated that In the local shops. One hundred and fifteen non-union men are at work here.
 Atlanta, Ga.-As a result of the es- tablishment of the 60-hour per week law recently enacted by the legisla- ture, about 150 weayers. loom fiXers and other employees went on strike at the Exposition Cotton mills here. The men had previously been working 66 hours per week. and objected to a cut In wages corresponding to the cut in hours. It is declared the mills will not be forced to close down by the strike.
 London. Eng.-The strike of 200 collers employed in the mines at Treorchy, Wales, which was pro claimed as protest against the enl- ployment of nonunion workers, was settled The non-unionists have giv- en fin and joined the union.
 McKeesport, Pa.-The w. Dewees , Wood plant resumed operations last week, after an idieness lasting four years. Tho milf is devoted to the manufacture of Russian sheet iron.
 Westerly, R. I-The strike at the Lorraine mills here is practically at an end the strikers having gradually returned to work until the entire mill is now under full headway.
 Centrevlle, R. I.-All of the Knight cotton mills here that have for five months been running short time, or forty hours per week, have started on a fifty.six hour per week schedule,
 Paris. France.-About one hundred and twenty thousand women are em' nloved by the French government,
 and the number is growing con stantly. 2
 New Workshops to form an inter state central labor union, to De enc largest in the world, were taken re- gently by New York labor leaders. The central union will cover New
 York and vicinity and New Jersey as far as Trenton. Delegates represent ing 5ooOoo workers will meet soon
 Cleveland. Ohio-"The overtime sys-
 fem is breeding insanitys and crime
 ana death. It is to save our women l ;. f<rao Nf12