Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-04

aEasn3f tba American Locomotive c0fr pau. on October 2G was declared or atEea' 7E Der cent of the men had ra- -nTn@o to work. The strike wag called W1en tho men refused to build boilers for New York Central engines be. cause the boilermakeTs employed in the railroad repair shops were on strike The Locomotive company brought i'll four hundred strikebreak- CTS. The metal trades council Of the American Federation of Labor ad- Vlsed the Boilermakers' International officers to retreat from the situation. inc lew remaining strikers here cheered when informed of the action of their higher officers
 Chicago Thirty-fve thousand men ana women are killed each year by American industry, acording to State tactory Inspector Davies, of Illinois Half million are injured. Thirty : one diseases whose true nature are unknown as yet to even the best of physicians and whose causes are not taught i'll any medical schools already -it''S oSSA ulSCONelSu dS GlFeCtly dt- tributable to faulty working condi- tons, and number their victims by the thousands every week because of the general ignorance concerning them. St. Louis, Mo.-A plan is on foot among several retail grocers to estab- fish d s500,00o wholesale grocery house in St. Louis. It is the inten- : ion to make the rural grocery stores collectors of produce and ommodi- les, which, when they reach St Louis, will be transferred directly to the re- raul stockholders of the company, hereby avoiding the necessity of pay tng the commission merchants prof. Us. This is the fifth wholesale groc- cry house started in St. Louis, it is safd, in the last year.
 . London, Eng.-We believe that if all employers did what the best employ CTS do, if they more often made practice of considering what they could do for their people instead of
 what they could avoid doing-how much instead of how little-the result would be a strengthening of the mod erate element, which is the most ef- ,ecfiYe barrier against the extremists and advocates of violence, says the London Times.
 Now York.-More than half a mil lion skilled mechanics and laborers gro idle and daily seeking employ !lant in New York city. according to figures compiled by the manua: labor , bureau of the National Employment Exchange. The labor market in this iciaity. says an officer of the bureau, never has been so stagnant and t5luttcd as now, and never has there been such a small demand for labor of my class.
 Columbus, Ohio.-The Ohio supreme "ourt upheld the constitutionality of he workmens compensation law. The :ct provides for an insurance fund created by contributions from employ rs and employees and provides for benefits from $1,5O0 to $3,400 for death resulting from industrial acci- dents and $5 to SIP weekly in case of < esser injuries The law is optional with employers.
 Minneapolis of the section men on the railroads in Min nesota will be begun early this year under the direction of organizers be- longing to the maintenance of way branch of the railroad organizations. It is stated that the average wage of these men is less than $1.50 a day and that no substantial increase has been received in the last twenty years. Chcaso-A detective agency of this city has written Milwaukee employers that it will supply spies, spotters or guards for any situations in which such experts are required. Reports cover everything from incompet8ney to actual dishonesty, and when nacSst sary. everything pertaining to the lab or situation and meetings of the vark pus unions and what is done therein.y London. Eng.-During the great miners strike of 1893 the colliers nf CannoEk Chase replenished their funds in strange fashion. The Biri lningham canal was emptied for re pairs, whereupon the men, to the num- Der of about 2,00o,, descended into its muddy bed and collected hundreds iof tons of coal which they sold at re- inunerative prices.
 Tacoma, Wash.-Several contractors are under investigation by the State Industrial Insurance commission on reports that they have been deducting from their employees salaries the amounts which the law requires en- ployers to pay into the compensation fund. The penalty is imprisonment CT fine, or both, the imprisonment not ,to exceed mir ety days, the fine $250.
 New York.-Supreme Court Justice Guy decided that there is limit to which labor union may go in perse- cutting a member who has been eZ- pelled, and signed an order requir- ing a New York union to reinstato Samual Sabo and to pay him S5S4 damages for wages lost and s12e costs.
 Washington.-The usual hours o1 work in Japan are twelve day Maia workers of IA get from 16 cents to at