Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.

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| Carpenters in Austria work ten or
eleven hours a day for an average
weekly wage amounting to 81 and 3d.
| Striking messenger boys of Duluth
have formed union and applied To
the American Federation of Labor for
a charter.
| The Homestead mills produce, with
about 1000 men, three times as much
steel as the Krupp works produce
with $4,000.
Wages of plasterers in Montreal,
Canada, have been increased from
twenty-eight cents to thirty-two cents
an hour for a day of nine hours in
stead of ten.
The plants of the United States Be
duction and Refining company at Colo
RADIO Springs and Florence, Colo, are
closed down on account of the strike
at Cripple Creek.
The next convention of the Shirt
waist and Laundry Workers union
will be held at San Francisco. Walter
Sherrere of Philadelphia was elected
president and Charles Grewe, Elgin,
ILL.,, first vice president.
Rock Island railroad conductors and
trainmen's strike was averted by
granting Is per cent wage increase to
freight and ~ per cent increase to
passenger men. This is the last OF a
movement benefiting 10000 employees.
Twelve damage suits for total of
$131 900 have been brought against
Chicago organizations as a result OF
| recent strikes. All are to be pushed
to the final court, for they are insti-
tuted by the Anti-Boycott association:
as test cases.
Practically all the mines in the
Cripple Creek, Colo, district are
closed down in consequence of the
union miners strike. The number of
miners on strike is estimated at 2,700.
Hundreds of miners are leaving the
camp for other localities.
The International Brotherhood Of
Stationary Firemen elected as presi-
dent Timothy Healey of New York.
The next convention will be held in
Washington in August of next year.
1t was voted to remove the national
Headquarters from New York to
Omaha.
Engineers and firemen of the entire
Union Pacific railway system have
been granted an average increase Of
wages for the engineers of about 3R
and the firemen Az per cent. The
increase runs from 10 to 20 cents a
hundred miles for the engineers, with
prsportionate increase for the fire.
men.
The twenty-frst annual convention
of the Illinois State Federation of La
Dor mas been called for Oct. 10 by
President Adam Menche of Kewanee.
Important matters will be discussed,
especially by the legislative commit
tee. and the work will be mapped out
for the session of the next general as
sembly.
Officers of the Amalgamated Society
of Engineers say that the organization
will be chartered shortly by the Ameri-
can Labor Union. The American Fed
Grafton of Labor has persistently re-
fused a charter to the organization.
The officers claim that the general
membership now numbers $4,000 in
good standing.
A powerful new labor organization
was born through the action of the
delegates to the Team Drivers Inter
national Union adopting resolution
under the terms of which the two
great organizations will be consoli-
dated The convention represents
100000 men in all parts of the United
States and Canada.
The Federation Window Glass Com
pany directors have approved the
wage scale recently arranged, which
provides a 10 per cent increase. A
conditional clause in the contract pro-
vides that the men shall accept pro-
portionate reduction in wages accord
ing to the difference in price of
machine and hand made glass.
The national convention of the Ger
ment Workers of America by close
vote reinstated the union of women
tailors of St. Louis, which was sus-
pended for refusing to acquiesce in an
agreement between the manufacturers
and other tailors' unions composed of
men. The controversy now goes back
to St. Louis for full settlement.
Union men recently employed by
firm of machinists In Jersey City have
struck practically for reduction from
$375 to So for days work The men
were brought from other points and
paid more than the union scale, but
the proprietors assert they demand
recognition of the union, regardless
of the consequences of the reduction
in wages.
Carpenters in Lafayette, Ind, lost
the strike which began May | for a
wage of thirty-five cents an hour and
recognition of the union, The Build