Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-13

won the elSnI-nOuT uay.
Dundee (Scotland) drillers struck for
&c cents per dozen rivets.
Frisco Sailors union demands $40
per month as minimum pay.
Several Frisco firms conceded the
nine-hour day to job printers.
Duluth street-railway uniforms this
spring will bear the union label.
Covington (Ky.) Ladies' Union Label
league has GOO members.
At Cleveland public improvements
will furnish work for 1000 men.
After May 1 Cleveland carpenters
will not work with nonunionists.
Troy unionists protest against the
employment of girls in foundries.
New York stereotypers are on strike
for a nine and one-half hour day.
The congress of miners at Salt Lake
will be attended by 5000 delegates.
Boilermakers and iron shipbuilders
on the Clyde want per cent increase.
Detroit grocers and butchers kick
against wholesalers who sell goods at
retail. ,
Hartford union printers get from SIS
to $21 per week. nonunionists 81 to S12.
Syracuse painters now get S2.75 for
nine hours; paperhangers $3.50. No
strike.
Greenville (Pa.) Tube company VOL
UNFAIRLY increased wages from 10 to 20
per cent.
Ballard (Wash.) knot sawyers
struck for $3.50 per day. The packers
demand cents per thousand.
Westminster (Md) merchants organ
lied. They oppose the running of low
rate excursions to Baltimore.
Boston Building Trades council has
asked brewers to employ only unionists
in the construction or repair of build
ings.
Remarks President Mulcahy of the
Woodworkers' National union: Il be-
lieve the report of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at the next annual
convention will show five times and
perhaps ten times the gain in member
ship of the previous year."
Cleveland unionists went to the legis-
lature to urge the passage of the Bram-
ley bill, abolishing prison contract la
Dor.
Boston common council refused to
pass the ordinance recommended by
Mayor Quincy providing for a depart
ment of public music.
Rochester Womans Christian Tenn
perance union requests that the cigar
be omitted from the cuts illustrating
new stylish suits of gentleman's cloth
ing.
New York has a Calcium-Light OPP
orators union. They complain because
members of the Stage Hands union are
handling the lights in one of the the
aters.
Cincinnati's street-railroad compa-
MES have reduced the fare between the
hours of 8 and in the morning and 5
and in the evening to cents. In flu
ture every passenger will be provided
with a seat.
The question whether the telephone
system should be placed in the hands
of the municipal authorities has been
discussed during the recent inquiry into
the telephone exchange service of Glas-
| gov.
Both the flints and manufacturers are
now figuring upon plan to have the
union label recorded upon all kinds of
union-made glassware to distinguish it
from that in the nonunion factories.
The retail grocers of New York have
| formed exchanges and pooled their in
terests to the extent of buying their
supplies in a wholesale way and dis
tributing them among the members Of
| the exchanges.
An Ottawa firm used a white label
in the shape of heart as a trademark.
| Another firm, which wanted to use a
white label in the shape of kite, was
refused the privilege, on the ground
that it was an infringement.
The Personal Liberty league, COM
| posed of the majority of the saloon
keepers of Kansas City, held q meeting
and protested against the ice trust. The
independent companies charged 17R
cents per 100 pounds. Now they must
pay 30 cents.
The new city repairs department Of
Boston Is working eight hours per day
and seven on Saturday, for from 1910
to 81 day. The city is now putting up
its own mill machinery for the con-
struction of doors, posts, window
frames and sashes.
The horseshoers' national conven-
ton will be held at Detroit, May 16
The greatest victory of the horseshoers
for the year is the success of the big
strike in st. Louis for nine-hour
workday Fifteen cooperative shops
were opened by the strikers and these
have practically captured all corpora
ton work previously controlled by the
Master Horseshoers' association.
"There is S1,5OO,OGO invested in the
largest brewery in Cleveland" says the
Rev. j. w. Allen. about the same
amount is invested in the largest ship
yard business in the city. About 300
men are employed in the brewery and
about $500 men in the shipyard.