Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-05-28
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes.
All state printing in Montana must
bear the union label.
The Colorado State Federation Vi
Labor meets next month.
Cigarmakers lost a strike OF t~o
years duration in Detroit.
The machine question is causing
glass-workers much concern.
Machinery molders are on strlke
against reduction at Brooklyn.
BARRIERS and clerks have organized
unions at Meadville, Pa.
Printers of Louisville will endeavor
to establish a scale Of prices.
A Federal labor union has been Or
ganized at Guthrie, o. t.
Union Job printers Of Chicago have
formed technical and social club.
Toronto printers have enjoyed the
nine-hour workday for twenty-five
years.
Chinese laundry workers of New Ha-
ven have organized and fixed scale OF
wages.
The Allied Printing Crafts of Ohio
will hold its annual convention the first
week in May.
Unions in Chicago engaged in the
production of building material have
formed a council
Michigan coopers want law prohib-
iting the use of secondhand barrels for
flour and bakers goods.
The Louisville Musicians Unions
have amalgamated and formed one I'M
ion under the Jurisdiction of the Amer
lean Federation of Musicians.
The Colorado Legislature has passed
a law providing penalties for discharg-
ing from employment one for belonging
to labor organization.
Senator Lodge has introduced bill
providing for the arbitration of all la
Dor controversies affecting companies
doing an interstate business.
New York printing trades are fight
ing the contract labor problem. The
claim is made that hundreds of men
have been displaced by the prison
work.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas Senate by Senator L. d. King
to prohibit the state printer from US
ing type-setting or type-casting ma
chimes in performing state work.
In the recent municipal election at
Oakland, CAL, organized labor Endorsed
eighteen candidates, and fourteen Of
them were elected, including MAORI
L.. @ho o;t,y council
Lee Johnson, for many years Presi-
dent of the International BoilerMak-
ers' and Iron Ship-Builders' Union, has
been appointed commissioner OF the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of Kansas.
The Central Labor Union of Scran-
ton. Pa, has issued circular denying
published reports that work is abund-
ant there The union advises work.
ingmen to give Scranton wide berth.
An ordinance was recently passed by
the City Council of Hamilton, O., de-
claring that uniforms for policemen,
firemen and other city employees in flu
ture shall bear the Tailors Union label.
Garment workers are voting on the
question of postponing the annual con-
yention of their general organization
from the first week in July. The con-
yention was to have been held in Chi
cago.
AS a consequence of the combining
of the cities into the Greater New York
many of the local unions will amalga-
mate, some of the national bodies pro-
hibiting more than one local in any
one place.
Union No. 14S, of Kansas City, Mo-,
prosecuted merchant for keeping open
on Sunday. The jury returned a YER
dict that pocket handkerchief was
a necessity, and was SO instructed by
the judge.
Delegate Samuel Gompers submitted
an amendment to the constitution of
the Washington Central Labor Union,
which provides that it shall require a
three-fourths vote of all delegates to
impose boycott.
The California legislature has passed
the following labor bills at the
instance of the California labor con-
vention: Changing Labor day from
first Monday in October to first Mon
day in September; providing for a
minimum wage of So per day on public
works; providing for bond equal to
one-half the contract price for wages
on public works; providing for stat
ed pay day at least monthly for loggers
and lumbermen.