Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 24, 1910

— Concessions on both sides have averted the threatened strike of conductors and trainmen against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

— As the result of an explosion of gas in the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre coal-mine at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on March 12, seven men lost their lives.

— The International Paper Company at Glen Falls, N. Y., on March 14, brought an action against the 1,500 striking members of the paper-makers' union to recover $100,000 for alleged damages.

— The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, on March 12, dismissed the appeal of the United Mine Workers of America, thereby perpetuating what had been a temporary injunction against the union mine workers, restraining them from interfering with the operation of the Hitchman Coal and Coke Company of West Virginia, or intimidating its employees.

— In St. Petersburg what is termed an epidemic of suicides is taking place. On March 17 in that city there were fifteen suicides, mostly girls, three of whom took their lives together by drinking acid.

— The president of the United Mine Workers declares that unless the mine operators agree to a new wage scale, 600,000 men employed in the coal-mines of the country will go on a strike, and that every industry dependent upon coal will be affected.

— Suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company was brought some days ago before the United States Supreme Court. The argument in the case has now been completed by both sides, and the fate of the company rests with the Supreme Court.

— The Turkish government has decided to increase its navy by the expenditure of $25,000,000. These war-vessels are not to be manufactured under competitive bids, but the entire equipment to the extent of the $25,000,000 is to be furnished by Great Britain.

— In view of the fact that no compromise has yet been arranged between the Philadelphia street-car company and its striking workmen, a State-wide strike has been ordered for Monday, March 21.

— The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen have formally notified the railroads operating between Chicago and the Pacific Coast that unless the differences existing between the workmen and the companies are submitted to arbitration, a strike will be declared, involving all roads leading from Chicago to the Pacific Coast.

— One of the greatest battles that has ever taken place in the House of Representatives occurred on March 17 in the effort of the insurgent Republicans and the Democrats to force a ruling from the speaker on a certain measure. The speaker refused to make the ruling, and the session lasted through the night and until seven o'clock the following morning. On March 19 the Norris resolution was passed, removing the speaker of the House from the Rules Committee, and enlarging the committee to ten members.