Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-29
HATTERS LOSE THEIR CASE
judgment Awarding Them Interest on
Deposits Is Reversed by United
States Court of Appeals.


of Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the
United States district court, in which
he awarded the accrued interest upon
the attached savings bank accounts of
the defendants in the Danbury hatters'
case to the United HatterS of North
America. Both the United lIatters
and D. f. Loewe & Co., plaintiffs in the
case, claimed the $50, 900 interest upon
the deposits under attachment. Judge
Thomas decided that the money should
be paid to the union. The court of APP
peals holds that the interest is but an
incident to the principal and conse-
quently should go to the person who is
entitled to the principal.
An entire new little city will be
built around the new $50, 100000 plant
of the Gary Qnd.) Tube company, ac-
cording to plans being developed. En-
gineers now are stalking off the site on
Gary harbor on which the plant will
be built. A huge sum of money will
be invested in camp and temporary
office buildings during the two years
of construction. Then, it is under
stood, the company will build from
eight hundred to thousand homes for
its workingmen and have them ready
for occupancy by the time the plant is
placed in operation. Five to six thou
sand will be added to the population
of the city.
A union lOngshoreman was shot and
fatally wounded and a bystander was
slightly injured in an alteration at
! Tacoma, Wash, between special dep
uty sheriffs and striking longshores
| men. After being attacked by long
shoremen J. f. Bowling, a special Off
Ger, fired upon his ASSISTANTS, hitting
Alexander Laidlaw, a striker, in the
back. He died after being removed to
a hospital.
The Holland Socialist newspaper,
! Tribune, asserts that $4,000 workmen
employed in munitions factories and
electrical works in Berlin and in an
aerotsfene at Johannisthal have gone
on strike as protest against the
! prison sentence imposed on DR.. Karl
/ Liebl1necht, the Socialist leader, for
! participation in the May day demon
stration at Berlin.
Plans for expending $30,00O,0OO to
$40,O0O,OOO in improving the big Mary
| land Steel company's plant at Spar
rows Point, We're announced at Bal
timore by Charles NJ. Schwab of the
/ Bethlehem Steel company. He said
he intends to make the marine depart
ment of the local plant the largest ship
building works in the United States.
After % years of the severest juris-
dictional conflict that the labor move
ment can chronicle, all organized
plumbers are now enrolled with and
have become members Of the United
Association of Plumbers and Steam
Filters of the United States and Can
ada.
Yucatan, MeE., has unions of organ
lied labor as follows: Electricians,
carpenters, seamen, bakers, masons,
hotel and restaurant clerks and COOKS,
commercial clerks, smeltermen, hack
men, railroad men and nachinists,
blacksmths and boilermakers.
The Womans Canadian club of St.
John, N B., is doing an excellent work
in encouraging the art Of toymaking
in New Brunswick They expect to
hold an exhibition of made in N. b. :"
toys early this summer.
The Congregational Union of Scot
land has decided to pay war bonus
to certain of it's ministers and to in
tr, of fsAntro1 flINC
of $15O,OOO or 100000 to augment sti.
ponds.
The latest returns compiled and pub.
lished in the Trade labor Gazette
shows that the Belfast district holds
the record for the lowest rate OF
pauperism in the United Kingdom.
Employees of the Boston Elevated
Railway company have ratified new
wage scale. Nearly 10000 will receive
pay increases which the company
claims will total nearly $2,O0000O.
From two-thirds to three-fourths Of
. women workers in our factories
stores, laundries and in industrial oc
equations generally work at wages O.
less than IS per week.
Government investigators fOunt
health standards very low among New
York garment workers. Only two pc
cent were free from physical defects
or diseases.
Demanding recognition of the unioi
and more wages, 1900 skilled mechan
les of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burgh railway shops went on strike q
Dubois, Pa.
, Frisco cloth hat and cap makers
union has succeeded in abolishing tn
piecework system in local shops. Thu
operators are now paid fiat wage.
, The Mixers Union of San Francis
co is conducting successful organic
r ing campaign among the employees
, dairies and creameries.
The Italian government is author
, lied to extend military discipline t
o dock labor at Italian seaports.
;. Frisco butchers union is conducting
0 an active campaign in favor OF earl
closing Of butcher shops.
a Female brush workers in Massa
. cbusatts have minimum wage Of ISL