Show LABOR NOTES tho canal dockman and other laborers at san cristobol on the panama canal have struck the men have refused to work for a day demanding 3 in Is equivalent to 1 in gold and which the colon dock iuen receive in fixing tho award for the sydney laundry employers union recently the new south wales arbitration court by a majority decision refused to grant preference to union ests sam smith the employed emp loyes representative strongly dissented from this portion of the ruling and said be considered the refusal to grant preference is contrary to the spirit of the arbitration act choso whoso basic principled are to encourage and foater the making of collective bargains between employers and employed emp loyes the legislative committee of the central labor union of philadelphia pa hag been ordered to co onerato with tho trades unions legislative committee organized by the textile workers for the purpose of obtaining better conditions for women and children working in the mills shops and factories the australian labor senators have set to work in earnest the arbitration bill and are making eliat measure something like it ought to be they have included agricultural horticultural and dairying employed emp loyes aleo domestic servants and defeated an attempt to exclude railway employed emp loyes conciliation and educational methods are being followed by organized labor in minneapolis minn in order to bring about a better understanding between the employers and employed emp loyes public meetings are being held from time to time at which speakers from the various industrial and commercial bodies are given an opportunity to express their opinions freely new zealand is suffering from a slight attack of the prevalent australian complaint the unemployed it is expected though that the trouble will disappear with the harvesting operations erat ions provided there Is no big rush of laborers from australia and elsewhere most encouraging progress Is being made by the political movement ol 01 the workingmen of great britain agitation and education on the political duties as well as the powers of the workingmen go hand in hand with trade union propaganda at the recent session of tha lake carriers association in detroit president william gave out a statement in which ha said that the open shop question was the most important one under consider ar alon and that it had not yet been settled by the executive committee the members of that committee how ever generally favor the open shop lako la ko captains present as numbers of the association were unanimously in favor of the open shop it is not probable that the committee win reach a decision before a month or six weeks the marine transport workers association has made a demand upon the luko carriers for the THE VALUE OP few people know how useful it is in preserving health and beauty nearly everybody knows that char coal Is the safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose charcoal Is a remedy that the more you take iii it the better it Is not a drug at all but simply absorbs the basea awl impurities always in the stomach and intestines and carries aam out of the system charcoal Cha roal sweetens the breath after drinking or alter eating onion and other odorous vegetables charcoal effectually clears and proves the complexion it whitens the teeth and further acts aa a natural and eminently safe cathartic it absorbs the injurious gases which collect in tho stomach and bowels it the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh all druggists sell charcoal in one form or another but probably the beat charcoal and the most for the money Is in stuarts charcoal lozenges they are composed of the finest powdered willow charcoal and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large pleasant tasting lozenges tho charcoal being mixed with honey the dally use ot these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health better complexion sweater 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 buffering from gaa in stomach and bowels and to clear the complex ion and purify the breath mouth and throat I 1 also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the dally uso of them they cost but twenty five cents a box at drug stores and although in como sense a patent preparation yet 1 believe I 1 get more and better charcoal in charcoal lozenges than in any ot charcoal lahlet si abolition of the stevedore system and the demand probably bo complied with A glassworks who lives at muncie ind has invented and patented a new fuel which is mado largely from the of the pulp mills it is bald to possess more heat units per pound than either coal or wood during the last tho silk industry of alic united states reached the point where its future brems assured as a permanent branch of tho textile industries of the country changes in the michigan mining law are being considered by representatives senta tives of michigan operators and a committee from the united slane workers of america the present law is not sufficiently comprehensive it la said and provides for little else than the appointment of an inspector choso whoso duty it is to gacher statistics one proposed change contemplates more stringent regulations regarding tho supply ot pure air in mines unofficial from tho voto cast by of tho brotherhood of hallway trainmen employed by the pennsylvania railroad company that thero will bo no strike there arefa this country nearly of all the children in the land between bg tween the ages of 10 and 15 years ohp are at work the nova J scotia government has sanctioned a aplan for emigrating pauper children ato canadian farms they are sent atthe earliest possible age to small f and as they grow older aro drafted to the northwest Chicago 1 hoe manufacturers are feeling the loss of the union stamp ono firm applied tor it again about ago four big chicago firms gae it up it la expected that all will now reapply re apply for it the at washington is the practicably it of dispersing city italians into rural communities lie alms to cooperate with southern industries seeking reliable white labor press feeders in dallas texas are on strike the union labor league of alabama through a committee has issued an earnest appeal to the workingmen of the state to qualify for voting by payment of their poll tax prior to february 1 when the time limit expires the leagues idea is to have union labor strong enough at the polls to prevent the election of legislators and other officials opposed to their interests an being mado in johannesburg south africa to do away vilh chinese coolie abor altogether ia about out of miners in the rhine country of germany are now out on strike the government busy taking statements preparatory to the government forming judgment and aro giving counsel to both i belligerents y of the spent last year by the united ejna workers for the relief of strikers went into the colorado district an analysis of the stated paid membership of tho organization shows that iowa made the greatest gain during the year the figures showing an increase of paid up memberships missouri came next with a gain of 2863 and colorado came forward with an in creaso of the southwest territory mado up of texas indian territory arkansas and parts of a few other states shows a gain from to it Is in pennsylvania that the greatest losses are found though alabama because of the great atalka of the last year shows shortage in paid up members central pennsylvania district no 2 shows tho heaviest losses of any district a drop from paid up members to a loss of or over 33 per cent according to reports of tho national convention ro cantly held in indianapolis A curious method for terminating the russo war wag started at a meeting in spain recently the delegates representing labor and other societies petitioned the international peace society of holland de ro anding that a general strike be proclaimed in all countries with tho ob eject of ending the hostilities in the far east tho cotton mill strike which began on july 25 1904 waa the greatest disturbance the textile industry of america has ever known when the mills involved were obliged to close their gates about operatives were thrown out of work seven tyone ty one ellla controlled by thirty three corporations stopped their machinery and remained idle until tho middle of november since which most of the factories have been generally with less than anc lulf tho usual force tha strike was directly due to a reduction of 12 13 1 3 per cent in wages tho mills had reduced wages 10 per cent eight months previously under the second reduction the standard price for weaving was 1732 cents per cut the last cut was not met by the six mills of the fall river iron works an independent concern the yarn and thread mills the barnaby gingham and Sl ovens quilt mill were also out of the wage reduction agreement the mills affected by tho strike havo a combined capital of and have spindles during the months tho were shut dowa the operatives lost nearly weekly and the corporations about the aggregate direct losses to all interests up to today anre estimated at fully the indirect losses were also considerable not la a decade haa the distress of the unemployed in bonlon been so acute as it is at present there anro more than three hundred thousand men out of work parades of tho unemployed will be larger and more determined ter mined those wearily tram the west and streets dally for two mouths two ago in wet ham a riverside borough of the east end there are men women and who do not know from day to day where a meal comes from thousands arc also out of work and on the verge of starvation in Caan ingi town in east london the greatest unrest prevails in russia among tho laboring classes thousands are on strike all over tire empire |