Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

pete with another machine. Inc new
invention, with the assistance of three
men, is said to do as much work as
60 mechanics can do.
Employing Roofers' association has
locked out 300 members Of the Anal
gamated Sheet Metal Workers Union
Of New York, rather than submit to
a decision rendered by an arbitrator.
Cigarmakers' International union No.
36, of Tampa, Fla, has grown more
rapidly within the last two months
than any other body of cigar workers.
Its membership has increased 497 in
that time.
Birmingham, Ala, is the scene of a
general strike of 400 union carpenters.
They want So day for nine-hour
workday. Formerly they worked 10
hours day. The contractors have
refused to grant the demand.
There is a movement on foot among
the $4,000 mill operatives at Fall Riv-
er, Mass, to secure an increase in
wages with the help of the various
textile unions. The Manufacturers
association has agreed to conference
The London Star says married men
in the employ of Sir Thomas Upton,
the tea merchant and yachtsman, re-
ceive as low as $3.50 and 81 week,
while young women in the packing
rooms are paid from $11O to $500
week.
Carpenters union No. 80, of Brook
Ign, has ordered that where three
members are employed together they
make a report at least once in two
weeks. Where five members are en-
ployed a regular shop delegate must
be elected. who will be fined 80 cents
each time he fails to make a regular
report.
Trade unionists are much incensed
against Gen. Ludlow for declaring
martial law in Havana, Cuba. The
unions of that city were preparing for
a general strike to reduce the hours
of labor and increase wages. But
the general broke up their meetings,
claiming that his action was doro for
the public safety.
State Labor Commissioner Lacy OF
North Carolina shows that, while IN
1896 there were employed in cotton
factories 6,S22 men, 10,567 women and
6,046 children, there are now employed
1880 men, an increase of 100 per cent;
1887 women, an increase of 90 per
cent, and only 3,44O children, de-
crease of so per cent.
A plan is on foot among the rail-
road brotherhoods to establish coop
erative grocery stores at the division
points of the various lines in this
country. The union members will sub
scribe for stock and divide profits. But
they will have to pay market prices
at the time goods are ordered. In
other words, the Rochdale plan will be
followed.
At Oakland, Cal, Rev. C. R. Brown,
pastor of the First Congregational
church, in his sermon recently,
severely arraigned non-union labor.
His manuscript has been obtained by
local labor organizations and will be
largely distributed. His most pointed
remarks were directed at his neigh
bors. the Seventh Day Adventists, who
employ non-union printers.
In order to settle the existing dlffl-
Guilty between the Lozier company or
Toledo and the Grinders union the
company agrees to reinstate in their
regular turn all its old employees prior
to the annual shutdown of 1899, and
will not discriminate against them.
The union scale OF wages shall be paid
for the season of 1900. piece work abol-
ished and day work substituted.
ct have often noticed that the man
ager who confers oftenest with a COM
mittee of his leading men has the least
trouble with his workmen. | there
fore recognize in trade unions, in or
carnations of the men. who select rep
resentatives to speak for them,
means not of further embittering the
relations between employer and en-
Moved but of improving them. An
drew Carnegie.
Inc members VI lHO -hioSOuii ~N"NS
board of barber examiners have en-
tered upon the task of issuing regular
licenses to the IT'S BARRIERS in st. Jo-
seph, who early in September were
granted temporary permits to work at
their trade. The BARRIERS union has
preferred charges of incompetency
against a dozen operators of five-cent
shops. and the matter will come be-
fore the board.
Fourteen hundred miles of the Cana
dian Pacific road, from Fort William,
Cnt.. to Vancouver, was tied up ana
traffic suspended for ten days. The
original point to the dispute was recog-
milton of the union, but when the
strike was ended the machinists had
not only secured that concession, burt
had also gained the nine-hour day,
time and one-half for overtime, all
work done on Sunday and all dominion
holidays, an advance in wages, estab-
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