Show id tho past year the membership of io united brotherhood of carpenters and pointers jointers Join has increased by more than making tho total membership about tho new vice president of tho new south wales boot operatives and rough stuff cutters union Is a woman misa stuart it Is reported that tho strike ot maritime wor korff at marseilles france la gradually breaking up the shipload ship load ers and carters have agreed to resume work although the bailers bailors and dock laborera still hold out all tho glass factories in tho char lerol belgium district ciui the exception ot one have extinguished their alres ina pursuance of a decision of tho employers to effect a lockout as a reply to their employees combination for tho betterment of their condition A ampton was recently made in the australian house of representatives that steps should bo taken to alter tho constitution that the federal parliament may havo power to pass uniform industrial laws for the commonwealth A call has been issued by president gompers to all affiliated unions of tho unions of the american federation ot labor to send delegates to tho twenty fourth annual convention con venton of that body to bo held at lyric hall eddy street san at 10 monday morning november 14 1904 the alabama coal miners finues twenty five representatives of french labor unions are in this country studying labor problems A diamond bouters outers strike is probable n amsterdam and antwerp the miners of district no 19 united mine workers have voted by an overwhelming wh elming majority against the acceptance cep tance of the operators proposal to reduce the wage scale about 7 per cent the 1900 census gives the number ot wage workers in the united states as divided as follows professional fess ional trade anil transportation por tation domestic and personal service manufacturing agricultural pursuits there are now about span adles employed in the worsted industry in austria against spindles in 1882 in great britain at present there are over men unemployed the canadian pacific boller maker strike has been settled after several conferences with master mechanic cross the men were granto fl an in crease of one cent per hour and resumed work in the september issue of the american it Is reported that among members of 1032 local unions making returns for anly 16 per cent acro without employment at the close of that month while a month earlier the 1891 unions making returns reported 51 per cent of the membership as unemployed and in july 1903 the percentage tago of unemployed was 33 in accor danco with the resolutions adopted at the recent st louis convention of the international typographical union that organization will begin a referendum vote of the members which will dearn lne whether or not the organization shall pledge itself to the eight hour day THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL few people know how useful it is in preserving health and beauty nearly everybody knows that charcoal is tho safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the bame cleansing purpose charcoal Is a remedy that tho more you take of it the hotter it la no a drug at all but simply absorbs the eases and impurities aldaya present in tho stomach aim intestines and carries them out of the system charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking drinking or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables charcoal effectually clears and in proves the complexion it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and en safe cathartic it absorbs tho injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels it disinfects dis infects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh all druggists sell charcoal in one form or another but probably the act charcoal and the most for the money la in stuarts charcoal lozenges they are composed of the finest powdered willow charcoal and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in tho form of large pleasant tasting lozenges tho charcoal being mixed with honey the dally use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health better complexion sweeter breath and purer blood and the beauty of it Is that no possible harm can result from their continued use but on the contrary great benefit A buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits of charcoal says 1 I advise stuarts charcoal lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels and to clear the complexion and purify the breath mouth and throat I 1 also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the dally use of them they cost but twenty five cents a box at drug stores and although in some sense a patent preparation yet I 1 believe I 1 get moro and better charcoal in stuarts charcoal lozenges than in any of the ordinary charcoal tablets |