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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Massachusetts Carp enters Want Forty-Hour Week and Increase in Pay All Drag Clerks Join California Union Watchcase Engineers Get Shorter Hours Grand Trunk Increases Wages, Lowell, Mass., carpenters are negotiating nego-tiating for a forty-four-hour week at an Increase of 5 cents an hour. The Coopers' union of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal.. Is considering the establishment estab-lishment of a home for aged and disabled dis-abled members. About seventy establishments in Amsterdam, Holland, cut and polish diamonds. They employ more than 10,000 people Some cleavers receive as much as $120 a week. The Switchmen's Union of North America has instituted new lodges at Regina and Saskatoon, Can. During the past three months the wage increase in local subordinate unions has exceeded any period m the history of the International Pressmen's Press-men's unton Shepherds in Russia do not receive more than ten to twenty cents a day, tne pay being given in supplies required re-quired for their homes. Every drug clerk In Fresno. Cal , with the exception of one, has become a membor of the Drug Clerks' association asso-ciation of California. Since the Inauguration of the pension pen-sion system in August. 1908, $500,000 has been expended in thi3 manner by the International Typographical union. un-ion. Tho working hours of the members of the Watch Case Engravers' International Inter-national union have been reduced to forty a week. Moving picture operators in Berlin, Germauy, receive from $7.14 to 9.52 a week, while operators in tho smaller German cities range from $4.76 to $7.11 a week. The Grand Trunk railway has granted an increase from 16 to 1C cents an hour to freight handlers and $5 a month to Ita freight checkers at Toronto,- Can. HONORABLE TRUCE HAS BEEN DECLARED The headings before the Ashbrook committee on expenditures of the postoffice department have been continuous, con-tinuous, now, for ten months, with the several necessary Interruptions occasioned by a short recess last sum-mor sum-mor prior to tho taking up of furthei hearings and testimony in tho city oi SL Louis itself and a recess between that time and tholr resumption in Washington In November and In February. Feb-ruary. 1912, a further Interruption to permit Mr. Lewis to bo present at the last trial of IiIb case on the twelfth Indictment found against him by the inspectors. This trial was not permitted permit-ted to be held before either a judge or jury drawn from St. Louis or St Louis county because the sentiment of the country in which Mr Lewis transactions had been carried on were said by the goernment officials who prosecuted the case, to be too much In Lewis' favor to warrant a fail trial of the government's side. Think of this position being taken by representatives repre-sentatives of our great government and then realize the triumphant vindication vin-dication of a meie rltizen, who with everything that could be brought to bear againBt him, even tho turning of the judge's charge from an Impartial presentment of the case into an argument ar-gument for conviction befoie the Jurj. yet that conviction did not follow There weie three men on that Jurj who lefused to be a party to conviction con-viction and thus sac-d the day and the honor of tho government Thlo Is said advisedly, for the entire effort of the government inspectors through out was to piovo fraud on the part ot Lewis, and X A. Ashbrook of Ohio, the chairman of tho committee, who has heard all the testimony of over a hundred witnesses, who went to St Louis and saw the great plants of the Lewis companies rendered idle by the seven years' war on him, and who has had an opportunity to learn something some-thing of the character of .Mr. Lewis nlmself, during these ten months past, declared in his last closing remarks to the persons immediately concornel that ho had no hoaitatlon in expressing express-ing on the record of the hearings that "I do not know wherein you (Mr Lewis) hae done anything with Intent In-tent to do wrong or defraud " Thb, evidently, will be in substance tho final judgment of the committee, and being so, Is It not true that the three men who stood out against conviction have in a very material and broad sense saved the honor of our govern ment? Tho names of these men should be honored, not only by all members of the American Woman's league, but by every thinking man and woman of tho entire nation They are J. "J Johnson of Bourbon, Mo D. I. Bre'n-nan, Bre'n-nan, Cntawlssa, Mo., and R. p. Hoi- ' the names of the other members of that jury should remain unnoted, to go down Into deserved oblivion But this mild fate cannot be meted out to Judge Arnldon of South Dakota, because of his nigh office, which was prostituted when he turned his back upon tho honorable ethics of his profession pro-fession to becomo a second prosocut-ng prosocut-ng officer in this case and to make n bitter, partisan argument for conviction convic-tion bofore the jury, In place of an impartial cummlng up of the law and tho facts. The final result has been a propo-sition propo-sition by Third Assistant Postmaster General Brltt to Mr. Lewis that the testimony on both sides in this last trial ho placed m the records of tho hearings and that they be accepted by bota sides In Hou of further examination ex-amination of witnesses. To this proposition prop-osition Mr. Lewis has agreed, fhst, to use his own words, "out of appreciation appre-ciation for the patience, courtesy and endurance which the mombers of tho Ashbiook committee had shown in tho ten long months of the hearing, 't being manifestly unfair to prolong the mattor if any reasonable basis of completing It could be found. Second, because Mr. Brltt has throughout shown a high-mindedness in the conduct con-duct of the postoffice department's side of tho case, which was entitled to full appreciation. Third, becaiibc I felt that wo have fought long and hard at bitter cost to establish our caBe and have absolute and complete com-plete confidence In the justice and fairness of the Ashbrook committee and that tho time has come to turn our every effort to rebuilding the wrecked enterprises and saving every dollar of Investment posslblo from further loss, and to accomplish this an honorable peace is absolutely nec-eBsary. nec-eBsary. Fourth, because tho evidence in the recent trial embraced every possible remaining charge of fraud or misconduct the government had to VUUXl JMM 'I' i , n ,,, u , , ii j gar.1 ''" . i) --, -,r- -' make, and the jury refused to find a verdict ot guilt "We had no quarrel with Individuals, but only vith antiquated and un-American laws and conditions. "We now feol apsurod that unlawful Interference with tills publication by any postal official anywhere in America, Amer-ica, either thiough Ignorance or a mistaken mis-taken idea of loyalty, will bo swiftly dealt with and that assurance is based on the high charactor of bolh the Ashbrook committee and the man who now fills tho position of third assistant as-sistant postmaster general "A flag of truce has been raised. Let us now turn our united strength to build again, better and wiser than before, be-fore, with no rancor in our hearts towards to-wards any postal official, high or low. Justice for the past can now be safelv loft to the wisdom and fairness of the Ashbrook committee's decision." (Signed.) M. M. CHILDS, Chairman Pross Cora A. W. L. of, whlcn m.t be seen to be appreciated. appreci-ated. There are tho sports of ancient Rome nnd modem foto dav races and contets. Then tho big nipic mciug. erio forms a zoological displnv without with-out a peer m nil the world. Xe:t la Cole Brothers' marvolous museum, ii which aie exhibited a nijriad o' human hu-man and animal froaks and other".-' t tractions. Thus it will be been ta there Is a royal holiday feast in slorp , ' T for all who attend this mighty amuse- i& raent exposition. J .. - -co . : 7t5 |