Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-07
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
Items of Interest for the Wotkingman
and His Friends.

Items of Interest for the Wotkingman
and His Friends.
Farm laborers at Jackson, Mo-,
have organized.
Blacksmiths in Holland receive but
z cents an hour.
The Federation of Musicians has
abolished the color line.
Koreans are being imported to
work on plantations in Hawaii.
Patternmakers at Albany, N. T.,
have secured a nine-hour day.
Street laborers at Chicago, Ill.,. will
receive a nine-hour day in 1904.
State hospital employees at Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, have formed union.
Miners at Atlin, B. c., are on strike
because of reduction of wages to
$3.50 day.
Bricklayers and masons in Aus
tria receive for day of ten hours
rs cents to 81.
Cigarmakers in Porto Rico are
joining the international union in
large numbers.
The American Labor Union is in
creasing it's membership east OF the
Mississippi river.
The legislature of Montana has
passed a law requiring the union
label on all textbooks.
Motormen at Berlin, Germany, re-
ceive SO cents and conductors about
72 cents for day of ten hours.
School teachers in the State Of
Washington are being organized I'M
der the auspices of the A. F. of l..
A central council of the Allied
Metal Mechanics was organized at
Aurora, ILL.,, by H. M. Dietrich of Chi
cago.
Packers employed in tobacco ware
houses at Wheeling, w. Va, have
been granted an increase of 10 per
cent.
Belgium, with a population of
100000, has 10000 workshops,
employing on the average only three
hands each.
International carworkers will try
and formulate plans whereby it will
be possible to introduce a standard
scale of wages.
Actors National Protective Union
now has a membership of 5000, an
increase of more than 100 per cent
during the past year.
Telephone operators and cleo
tricians, at San Francisco may strike
on account of unpleasant changes in
rules and regulations.
Superintendent Gerow of the Kan
sas state employment bureau reports
demand for $500 workers in the
wheat fields of that state.
The call has been issued for the
annual convention Of the New Jersey
State Federation Of Labor, to meet
in Bridgeton, N. j., Aug. IT.
There was a strike for higher
wages last week of the grave diggers
at Greenwood cemetery, N. Y. The
matter was compromised by the
mems union.
Ladysmith, B. c., miners threaten
to secede from the Western Fedora
ton of Miners unless strike benefits
to the amount of $4,000 month is
granted them.
Lanarkshire, Scotland, miners may
strike owing to the action of the
mine owners in importing Poles, who
work for less than the Scotch miners
can exist upon.
Quarrymen employed at the Balla-
chulish, Scotland, quarries have
struck because the managers have
objected to the mems demand for
doctor in the district.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Station
airy Firemen, at which will be repre-
scented 172 locals, will be held in
Rochester, April 10 to 10.
John Coleman, business agent for
the United Trades and Labor Council
of Erie County, is leading candidate
for the position Of councilman in the
Buffalo board of councilmen.
The business men of Utica, N. Y,
have formed an organization for the
purpose Of operating against trade |
unions. One object of the associa-
ton is to supply strike-breakers.
Firemen, engineers and outside
workers, excluding laborers employed
In the coal mines of Wales, will !
merge their association with the Fed
Grafton of Miners of that district.
A wage and hour schedule and
agreement made with a labor
1nion is legal and not violation Of
he antitrust laws, the Texas attor-
ney general and law officers have an
The executive committee of the A.
=. of L. has recommended that silk
workers be thoroughly organized and
attached to tho United Textile Work
RS of America as distinct branch of
he textile industry.