Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-11

Practically the entire force OF en-
ployes returned to work at the New
London division of the American
Writing Paper Company. 1t is ex-
pected that within day or two all
the fine mills will be running.
]. r. Sovereign, for several years
the leader of the Knights of Labor,
writes from Wallace, Iadho, that he
has been succeeded by another In the
management of the Idaho State Trib-
une, the property of the miners un-
ions of the Occur d'Alenes, and will
start another paper of his own.
1t is estimated that fully $500 en-
ployes at various parts of the Penn
sylvania railway system will soon
find themselves without work. In
the car shops the repair and construc-
ton work is being done on smaller
scale, and In order to make credit
able financial showing the company is
laying off men.
Owing to the idleness Of a large
number Of union sheet steel mills,
meeting of the advisory board Of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel and Tin Workers will be held
for the purpose of declaring nonuniOn
mills, many of which are in operation.
open mills, to permit idle men to Sc
cure employment.
The employees of eighteen of the
leading restaurants of Chicago were
called out August "a. and every lunch
room in the down town district was
closed up. It is estimated that 1900
employees quit work in the eighteen
restaurants tied up. The men claim
they have been unfairly treated by
the arbitration committee.
The Western Federation of Miners
has issued an appeal to unions
throughout the country to contribute
to an "eight-hour day fund.-" and let
the battle-ground be in the Western
country. The Western miners have
already started the fund. The circular
is signed by w. D. Haywood Of Den
yer, secretary of the federation.
In his annual address to the Metal
Polishers and Allied Trades conven-
tion President Lynch advocated the
insistence for nine-hour day through
out the United States and Canada;
that the several states be divided in
to fifteen districts, and biennial ses-
sions, because of the great loss OF
time involved in yearly sessions.
Officers of the newly organized In
- t<-.
are to be established at indianapolis
early in October. National Secretary
Treasurer e. l.. Turley Will take
charge of the Office at that time, re-
moving from Chicago. and j. j.
Dwyer,, editor of the Transfers Jour.
nal, the official organ, will also go.
The National Building Trades Coun.
Gil, in session at Denver, adopted a
resolution indorsing the Stonemasons'
International Union of America. and
condemning the Bricklayers and Ma
sons international Union of America
because of it's alleged attempt to dis
rupt the stonemasons organization
with a view to absorbing 1t as body
At the recent convention in New
York City the Lithographic Press
Feeders voted in favor of establishing
an Allied Trades Council along the
lines of the Allied Printing Trades
Council They also voted to establish
fund for organization throughout
every city of importance in the entire
country, and the union will soon start
a general organizer in the field.
Because of a deadlock with the
miners over the wage scale conven-
ton of mine operators of the South
west has been called in Kansas City
to form closer compact for offensive
and defensive measures In the event
of expected trouble. 1t is the inten-
ton of the operators to ask President
Mitchell to visit Kansas City and to
reopen the wage scale question, in
the belief that he will favor their
position.
According to the most accurate au-
thorities the United States ranks first
among the manufacturing nations of
the earth. How much is meant by
the term American manufactures
dawns dimly on the mind when one
reads statistics and the imagination
tries to conceive that the manufacture
ing establishments of this country
have 50 1876 ,0S6.9O9 in capital in use
annually, employ 397,174 officials and
clerks and 5,316.S02 wage-earners.
1t is estimated that between 5000
and 1000 textile strikers, principally
operatives in the rug branch, have re-
sumed work at Philadelphia. The
made no concessions.
The strike was begun eleven weeks
ago, and of the original $4,000 strikers
only 10000 remain out. Many of the
idle hands are dyers, and it is said
If they continue to remain firm they
may compel some of the mills to close
because of the lack of dye stuffs.
Rite Nav Kill Motorman