Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-10-09
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

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Items of Interest Gathered from Many
| Sources.
1t is proposed to extend the New
Zealand arbitration act to the other
| Australian colonies.
| Following a five weeks strike the
National Tube company of Pittsburg
resumed work with nonunion men.
| Canada has 1851 labor unions, ac-
cordng to the labor gazette just is
sued by the Dominion government
The general federation of trade
unions of Great Britain suggests the
formation of national Cancellation
board to adjust labor disputes.
National Mine Workers Union has
$4,000 members and $yy9,6l0 in it's
treasury, according to the auditing
committees report made last week.
| 1t is learned that the Pittsburg
fremen have secretly organized a
union and will receive a charter from
| the American Federation of Labor
| this week.
The contract miners of Coke Broth
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coal district have obtained from the
board of Cancellation the right to
select and hire their Gown helpers.
All hope of a settlement of the coal
| mines strike at Thurber. Texas. has
been abandoned, and President Mars
ton has gone to New York to aid in
conserving the company's interests.
Longshoremen at New Orleans
have broken their agreement and the
steamship agents have decided to
lock out every union man on the river
| front unless river men recede from
their demands.
At the session of the International
Union of Steam Engineers resolu.
| ton was adopted recommending to
the American Federation of Labor
compulsory arbitration of disputes
| between rival labor bodies.
The call for the twenty-third an
nual convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, to meet in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, Mass. Monday Nov. 8,
has been issued by President Com.
PSIo anu oCtlCtdIy NOIIlSOH.
According to the report of Labor
Commissioner Ratchford of Ohio, tho
average weekly earnings of women
wage workers in the large cities of
that state is $4.S3, and their living ex-
penses 1923 for the same period.
The project for forming a national
| union Of all branches of the furrier
trade has taken definite form, and the
work to that end is now under way.
St Paul will undoubtedly be the head
quarters of the new organization.
Sixty Western Union messenger
boys went out on strike at st. Louis.
demanding an advance in wages of
three cents an hour The Western
Union rejected the demands and en-.
gagged a number of men to deliver
messages.
The United Association of Plumb
ers Gas and Steam Filters and Help
ers has issued statement that $685.
$50 was paid out in benefits from JAN
]. to August &c. and that in the same
interval $500 men were initiated or
reinstated as members.
Ingram carpet weavers at Philadel-
phia numbering about 5000, who have
been on strike since June for a fifty
five hour week and 10 per cent in
crease in wages. have returned to
their looms. The manufacturers
granted no concessions.
Baltimore union boilermakers and
iron shipbuilders have voluntarily re.
duced the union overtime wage scale
that their employers may compete
with New York, Philadelphia and
other shipbuilding concerns. The
present arrangement is for one year.
The Mine Owners Association of
the Cripple Creek district announces
that it will not employ men belonging
to the Western Federation Of Miners
In the future, it being the purpose to
nonunionize the camp if possible
Notices to the effect that miners be-
longing to the federation need not
apply for employment in the future
are posted at the various mines.
Newspapers throughout the country
are calling attention to and denounc-
ing as unamerican the evident rule
of the united garment workers union
which prevents small factories from
getting the union label for overalls, |
working jumpers, etc. The rule has
been felt in several sections of this |
state, and an appeal has been made |
to the A. F.. of L. executive board.
Justice Gould has dissolved tenn
porary Injunction. issued in June on