Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.

NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
Items of Interest Gathered From Many
Sources.
There are $50 trades unions In Iowa
with total membership of $4,000.
There are nearly $4,000 women
dressmakers in the United Kingdom.
The Western Federation of Miners
has been asked to affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor.
A combination to prevent the re-
election of Samuel Gompers as head
of the Federation of Labor, 1t is ru-
mored, has been formed by mine work
ers and longshoremen.
The wage scale demanded by the
Leather Workers Union at San Fran
cisco, CAL, has been agreed to by the
retail harness makers, but few modi-
fications IN the conditions are asked.
The latest thing in union is a Sec
tion hands union formed in Topeka,
Kan. The name of the order is the
National Union of Railway Trackmen,
and it's headquarters will be at Fort
Scott.
+ An industrial census Of Bohemia
shows that of its 2,006,O00 population,
16O,327 are engaged in manufactures.
and of these POI ,539 are women. Most
of the work is done by hand and at
home.
The San Francisco Labor Coupcil
has sent out letters to the effect that
the labor market in all lines is over
crowded on the coast and that employ
ment is scarce, especially in Southern
California.
National organization Of employers
against labor unions was urged by d.
M. Parry, president of the National
Manufacturers association, in an ad-
dress before the Furniture Association
of America at New York.
OF 1906 unions making returns to
the office of the American liberation of
Labor for June with an. aggregate
membership of 5S719 there were rs
per cent out of employment. In May
the percentage Of unemployed was 5.3
out of membership of 104,S99.
During the month of June the Amer
lean Federation of Labor issued 1875
charters as follows: City central
bodies, 16; federal labor unions, 40;
local trade unions, 50. There are at
present 2,S06 unions affiliated with the
A. F. of L. of which number ITO are
international unions.
The strike throughout Trans-Cau-
casia has assumed alarming proper
lions. In addition to the firing of the
oil wells they have performed several
other atrocious acts, and recently
wrecked a freight train near Tifiis,
which resulted in two people being
killed and three injured.
President Thomas w. Rowe of the
American Flint Glass Workers Union,
talking of the wage scale for the COM
ing year, which begins Aug. 8, said
the scale differed little from that of
last year, but that in all causes where
there was change the men secured
an advance satisfactory to them.
The Team Drivers International
CldlLo ~ hoVO OVSA VOJOOV
members. According to officials of the
Transfers National Union who were
formerly members of the Team Driv-
ers' International Union the strength
of the latter organization two years
ago was less than $4,000 members.
Printed sheets, signed by the Of
ficials of the local trades unions, are
being circulated at Barcelona, Spain,
exhorting all members to start gen.
eral strike and continue the same until
all workmen now confined In Spanish
prisons, whether as convicts as await
ing trial for offenses, have been liber-
ated.
There are "a typewriter factories
in the United States with a capital
of IS, 100000, and that the value Of the
product of 1900 was $6,932.029. The
salaried officers and clerks engaged
in the business number 552, and the
average number of workmen employed
is 4,34O, of whom 294 are women and
67 are children.
Steps are being taken to bring about
an amalgamation of the various unions
of railway clerks, which may result
In the formation of a strong national
organization of the men in that line
of work. At the present time there
are three national unions of railway
clerks in the field, each one more or
less antagonistic to the other.
1t is expected that the National Bis
cult company will reopen its Kennedy
and Bremner plants at Chicago within
two weeks. These have been closed
for two months and most of the former
employees have obtained work else
where. This company will now re-
sumo with force of workers not af-
filiated with labor organizations.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers Of America, has