Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-27
Labor Notes,

Ogden (Utah) merchants want tax
placed on business and professional
men.
Dundee (Scotland) magistrates have
fixed cab fare within a certain radius
at ~ cents.
The Scandinavians of northern Iowa
organized for the coming political CAM
paign in Iowa.
Pittsburg brickmakers won strike
for an advance of 10 per cent. Each
make 1900 day.
New York printers strike was COM
promised-bosses can do electrotyping
for non-union employers.
The Denver trades assembly rejected
a resolution which favored the re-en-
actment of the law establishing capital
punishment
The city of Dresden Germany is the
owner of a paper the profits from which
go to building parks. The paper was
bequeathed to the city.
A settlement has been arranged be-
tween organized labor and the Armour
Packing company. The boycott was
declared two years ago at Kansas City.
Pittsburg structural ironworkers
complain because carpenters are in
fringing on their occupation. Car
penters are, moreover, paid less than
the ironworkers.
AT the New York Central Labor un-
ion on Sunday last Delegate Brown
said that war would throw out of work
5000 cigarmakers and would paralyze
the building trades.
Detroit Musicians union has ruled
that the street-car mems band shall not
play gratis for their brother unions,
and the street-car men have decided to
disregard the decision.
Pittsburg steel railway workers must
now pass a physical examination. Each
must have good eyesight, sound hear
ing. good health and he must not be a
cripple, with other requirements.
"If Adam had worked 300 days each
year from the day he was created to
the present time at salary of $50
day he would not have earned by this
time as much property as is owned to-
day by Rockefeller or Vanderbilt said
DR.. Wright of Detroit.
Louisville city council passed the
resolution requiring all stone used on
the streets of Louisville to be purchas-
ed from local quarries. 1t killed an Or
dinance requiring all firms, persons and
corporations who do work for the city
on contract to employ only men who
have been bona fide residents of the
city at least ninety days.
B. A. Larger of Cincinnati, president
OF the United Garment Workers union,
saws that in the manufacture of gar
n,ents. as we'll as in many businesses,
female labor is the cause of low wages.
While a man employed in garment
factory receives about $1S week, wo-
men following the same trade receive
but from rs cents to about "a week.
Fifty years ago there were few per-
sons employed or gaining living by
the utilization of electric energy. Now
in Europe and America there are over
LOCO, OOO-very likely 100000 in the
world. In 1927 George Stephenson
started his first railway train, possibly
with a dozen employees. Now in the
United States there are nearly 100000
railroad workers.
Dunblane (Scotland) masons are on
strike. The men demand that proper
shed accommodations shall be provid-
ed for them in wet weather, or half
penny per hour be added to their wag
es. The men also demand that if their
jobs are more than two miles distant
from the town the time taken to walk
beyond the two-mile limit will be that
Of the masters and not of the men 4,