Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-28
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources,

Items OF Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The Iron Molders' Association of
Great Britain has membership of
1000.
A new general organization Of rail-
way clerks, to be affiliated with the
A F. of L., is under way.
At the beginning of the year there
we're 10000 women members of labor
unions in New York state.
The order of railway telegraphers
report 1871 members admitted in the
six months ending July 81.
The national headquarters of the
International union of journeymen bar
bers is now in Indianapolis.
Cloth weavers and other employees
Of the textile trades TO the number of
$4,000 at Oporto. Portugal, are on
strike.
Tobacco workers international
union has levied 25-cent assessment
for the unions label propaganda and
to fight the trust.
1t is now proposed to organize a
national farmers union to be affiliated
with the A. F. of L. Eight states
already have local farmers unions.
Michael Sweeney, a union sheet
metal worker, was shot to deeth while
attacking John C. Weller, employee of
E. A. Rysdon G Co., Chicago, who re-
fused to strike.
Carpenters at Toledo, O., who were
standing out for 371s cents an hour
compromised on 35 cents for certain
period, after which the Increased scale
goes into effect.
Judge Hemphill of the court Of COM
mon pleas of Pennsylvania has decid-
ed that working people have a legal
right to. peacefully picket shop
against which there is a strike.
Notices Of reduction in wages of
carpenters at Belfast, Ireland; Liver
pool and Tyne, England,
have been withdrawn owing to the
firm attitude of the unions in those
cities.
The proposed federation Of the
trades unions of all Australasia has
been found impracticable, as in the
states where the compulsory arbitra-
ton act is in force united action would
be impossible.
The American Federation of Labor
is receiving per capita tax on 1,457,-
593 members, and has $55, S94.50 in the
treasury for the defense fund. It has
at the present time 1,161 commissioned
organizers In the field.
Three of the sixteen mills Of the
Homestead steel works have closed
down for necessary repairs, throwing
out of employment about 500 men.
The suspension at this time is not
unusual and the officials say is without
The International Printing Press
men and Assistants Union of North
adopted resolution calling
upon all labor unions to unite on a
candidate suitable to the laboring ele-
ment for president of the United
States in 1904.
Iron and Steel Workers Association
Of Great Britain has resolved that no
cessation of work take place without
the direct sanction Of the executive,
making 1t impossible for repetition
Of the Taft Vale case so far as that
body is concerned.
At the International Miners Con.
yress, held in Brussels, Belgium, in
June, the delegates voted for legal
sight-hour day, minimum wage scale
and labor representation, the idea be-
ng to secure miners for mining con.
'tituencies wherever possible.
Eleven mines at Cripple Creek, COL,
ire closed by strike of 1900 union
miners, who walked out to aid the
lction Of the Western Federation of
Miners against the United States Re-
luction and Refining and the Ameri-
IAN Smelling and Refining companies.
A delegate from the Locomotive
Viremen's Union has complained to
hamilton (Ontario) Trades and Labor
Council that the regulation calling for
light hours rest In twenty-four is re-
'eatedly violated. The matter will be
AIKEN to the Canadian Minister of La
,or.
The International Association OF
theatrical Stage Employees, which held
Is convention in Columbus, o.. recent
y, reelected Lee M. Hart of Chicago
eneral secretary and treasurer. The
rage scales as revised make some
light increases, but no radical
hanges.
The National Brotherhood of Car