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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Retroactive pay increases aggregating fiOO000 000 a year approximately half the amount de ¬ manded by the organized railroad workers of Amer ¬ ica were granted by the United States railroad labor board yesterday in its Ionsawaited decision fixing the wages of nearly IOOOOOO in en The workers had demanded the addition of 1100000 000 to the railroads pay roll The board split the difference disappointing the workers and perhaps precipitating widespread labor trouble Ap ¬ plication for increases in both freight and passen ¬ ger rates became a foregone conclusion as the wage award was announced F H Whiter counsel general for the railroads in the hearing before the labor hoard announced that a raise of at least 18 per cent will be necessary necessaryThe The Cuban house of representatives yesterday adopted a bill providing for the formation of a special commission to be known as the parlia ¬ mentary commission which would have for Its object the betterment of traffic conditions In the port of Havana and on the islands railway lines linesJack Jack Johnson negro former heavyweight cham ¬ pion pugilist crossed the international boundary line frcm Mexico at Sail Diego Cal yesterday and was arrested by a deputy United States mar ¬ shal Johnson is under sentence in Chicago for violation of the Mann act actIgnace Ignace Padcrewski the former premier has been appointed to represent Poland in the council of am ¬ bassadors at Paris Official notification of his ap ¬ pointment was received at New York yesterday from Warsaw in a message to the Polish minister to tht United States StatesA A fight to force Mayor Thompson and the Chi ¬ cago police department to cooperate with federal dry agents in a strict enforcement of the prohibi ¬ tion laws is being planned by the AntiSaloon League LeagueThe The Paris Matin calls attention to the recent increase in aerial navigation saying that there wire I17U flights between Paris and London dur ¬ ing June
