Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-01
For Union " orkers
Important Happenings in
 Industrial Circles in This Country and Europe

Boston.-Boston Sheet Metal Work CTS union announced that the employ CTS of every branch have agreed to the compromise wage rate of the union. It provides that an increase or 20 cents day, which will make the minimum rate $4.20 a day. shall be paid until Jan. l. next, when the wage rate of $40 a day will go into effect.
 Boston.--In addition to the lockout of several hundreds of members or the Boston Ladies' Garment Workers unions at seven local shops, which has been on for several weeks, strike of the same trade in New YorK may effect other Boston shops if they attempt to do work for the New YorK firms, whose hands are on strike.
 Mediation by the gov ernment has been accepted by the railway strikers, who for the last ten days have succeeded in largely tying up traffic in Argentina. Seven thou sand employees ceased work when the strike was called, and they had strike fund of $300000. The govern ment enacted a special decree per mitting the company to use temporar- fly strike breakers not fully qualified to operate trains. Many Chinese and Japanese who were members of the crews of Argentine vessels, also out on strike, offered to take the places of the railway strikers. rA 44.; :
 Chicago.-More than $S,000 was dis tributed by Henry c. Lytton, head of a department store, among the 600 employees as the annual dividend of the concerns profit-sharing plan, Each one, from scrubwonlan to de- partment heads, received either an envelope containing currency or a check for a substantial amount. The largest check, one for $500, went to Miss Clara Sehm She is the first to benefit under MT, Lytton's plan to add $500 bonus to the salary of: enl- ployes who have been at the store for 20 years or longer. A < \ a
 Boston.--John Campbell Cleave, a wealthy young man of Cresson, E Pa.
  college and, as full-fedged member of the Massachusetts Militia, Is doing strike duty at Lawrence, with IS oth- CT Harvard men. The college soldiers all are members of Troop B, which was formed about a year ago with the idea of making it a sort of gilt-edge Rough Rider organization. On It's rosters appear the names of several prominent Boston, New York and Philadelphia families,
 Boston.-Greater Boston Carpen- ters' District council, which repre- sents the nearly 5000 members of the 2S brotherhood carpenters unions of the district, last week sent to refer endum vote of the membership a proposition that the employers be asked for a wage increase of five cents an hour, to take effect June l. The present minimum rate is 50 cents an hour, secured by arbitration sev- eral years ago, when the rate was 47A cents an hour.
 New York.-More than half mil lion skilled mechanics and laborers are idle and daily seeking employ ment in New York city, according to figures compiled by the manual labor bureau of the National Employment exchange The labor market in this vicinity, says an officer of the bureau, never has been so stagnant and glut- ted as now, and never has there been such a small demand for labor of any class.
 St. Louis.--An offer of all the Meth odist Episcopal churches south. in St. Louis, for the use of the poor as places of lodging by night. has been formally made to Chief of Police Young through the presiding elder Rev. Dr. c. NJ. Hawkins. Those in charge of the churches have express. ed their willingness to have the build ings warmed each night so as to make them comfortable.
 Brookville, Ind.-One hundred girls working at the Thompson Norris Pa per mills, went on strike because the company painted the window panes of the lower sash on the first and second story of the building where they work. The comSany's building is along the railroad track near the station, and the company officers say the girls lost too much time watching the trains.
 London, England.-London, through the system of water waste detection introduced by the chief engineer c! the Metropolitan water board. has re duced the daily consumption ten gal Ions per head of population. In Easi London enough water has been saved to supply city of 100000 inhabitants
 Berlin, Germany.--The Krupy works at Essen are producing etee alloy which is 50 hard that vaults and safes made of 1t are absolutely bur glar proof.
 Cleveland. Ohio.-It may not hap pen again for some time. but last month Cleveland, sixth city, was ths third city in the country in the value of tho huildings covered by iha ner