Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
A Bible class for organized work
ingmen has been started In Atlanta
Georgia.
The organized workers of the Trans
vaal are demanding the exclusion OF
the Chinese.
There are 1929 labor organizations
In New York state. with total men,
bership of 329,1O1.
"If you want to name the worst
drawback that union labor has to
struggle against" says Chicago
workingman, at is WHISKY. Write II
large"
brotherhood of painters and deco
rators organized 494 unions from Jan.
81, 1902 to June 80, 1908, and have
added to the membership in that time
$4,000 men.
Another batch of $50 Pencoyd (Pa)
iron works employees have been laid
off indefinitely. So far about l,oOo OF
the 1000 employees of the hill have
been laid off.
The iron molders have added 10000
new members to their union in the
last six month. During the same Pc
Rod over $93, 1000 has been paid out In
death benefits.
The clothing cutters of New York
city have taxed themselves 81 week
to support their fellow workers IN
Rochester who are on strike for an
eight-hour day.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany has abolished the probation Pc
Rod for freight handlers. The nego-
tiations began June 1 and the new rule
dates back to October l.
Towner X. Webster, big Chicago
manufacturer, eulogized labor unions
and advocated general eight-hour
work day by law at the National civic
federation conference in Chicago.
There are more than 100000 women
workers in Germany, and less than
$4,000 are organized. Their wages
average from 50 to So a week. Here
you have a case of cause and effect.
Railroad telegraphers initiated H.
465 new members since Jan. 1, OF
whom 1851 were admitted in Septem-
Der. The order secured thirty-three
new or revised schedules last month.
Orders have been received to bank
all the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel
Company in the Youngstown district.
Lack of business is given as the
cause. The steel plant is in opera
ton.
Statistics show a remarkable in
crease in trade union membership in
Germany during the past year. The
total membership is now 1,092,642, a
gain of nearly 80 per cent within a
year.
Superior Judge L. M. Hosea at Gin
cinnati granted an injunction pre-
venting the striking typefounders
from interfering at the plant of the
American Type Founders Company.
The Injunction prevents picketing,
lettering about the plant, intimida-
ton, threats and violence.
After struggling for three years to
force the tailoring firms to open free
workshops so that employees may not
have to do their work at their homes,
the Chicago Journeymen Tailors'
union gave up its battle.
Grand Master Hanrahan of the
brotherhood of locomotive f1remen,
and Grand Chief Stone of locomotive
engineers deny that movement is on
foot which contemplates the amalga-
nation of the two organizations.
Hundreds of Welsh coal miners are
being brought to this country in vio-
lation of the contract labor law, says
F. P. Sergeant, chief commissioner of
immigration. The evidence has been
submitted to the attorney general.
United Textile Workers union,
which has been in convention at
Philadelphia, attends to organize the
recently defeated textile workers of
that city under the banner of the tex
tile workers, and its affiliatd interna-
tional unions.
Industrial Commissioner Jackson of
the Erie railroad paid organized labor
one of the best tributes when he told
meeting of magnates that with
twenty labor organizers, whom he
could name, he could organize the peo
pie of Russia within year SO that
they would be fit for self-government.
One delegate from each local of the
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers' In
ternational Union will meet in Chicago
Nov. 30 to prepare national wage
agreement. The object is to make the
scale uniform and also provide work
ing rules that will protect members
sent by contractors from one part of
the country to another.
The Terre Haute Ind.) branch Of
The American Car and Foundry Com
,any, giving employment to 1000 men,
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