Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Many
Sources.

is in preparation. Heretofore they
have been illegal.
The annual convention of the Hi
nois State Federation of Labor VIII
meet in Springfield Oct. 10.
Eighty-fve button cutters walked
out of two button factories at Musca
tine, Ia, on account of cut in wages
Thirty cracker manufactures in the
country use the union label OF the
cracker bakers, according to their re-
ports.
The metal polishers decided to pro
vide fund to defray the expenses oil
strike cases pending in Dayton and
Chicago.
Four hundred union glass workers
struck at Morgantown, w. Va, be-
cause the officials declared that they
would run open house.
The International Brotherhood Of
Blacksmiths, through referendum
vote, has decided to hold a conven'
ton this year in st. Louis, beginning
Monday, Oct. 5.
The treasury of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor held $62,940 July ]
last. of which 1884 was credited to
the defense fund and $7,046 to the gen
eral fund of the body.
John H. Maloney of Chicago elected
president of the National Building
Trades Council at it's recent conven-
ton in Denver, is agent of Electrical
Workers Union No. 1874.
The strike waged by Peoria, Ill.
butchers against the Peoria packing
house since last October has been de-
clared off by the strikers. organized
labor refusing to support them.
Oficials of the Iron Molders' Union
of North America are said to be con-
s,dering the ACCESSIBILITY OF moving
the headquarters of the organization
from Cincinnati to Washington, d. c.
The trouble between the American
Shipbuilding Company and its en-
ployes at Bay City, Mich, has been
compromised. The men will work tSn
hours day and the wages will be
slightly increased.
The next annual convention OF
Laundry Workers will be held at San
Francisco. Chicago lost the head
quarters. and they will remain at
Troy, N. Y, constitutional amend
ment being necessary to move them.
The national executive committee
of the United Garment Workers,
whose convention has just closed at
indianapolis decided to send President
Larger and Secretary White to ST.
Louis to adjust the differences OF
union tailors there.
About $500 textile workers of GRIM
mitzchau have struck for shorter
hours. The police broke up four meet
ings because nonresident officials of
the Textile Workers Union address
ed them. A fifth mass meeting was
allowed TO continue.
A strike of the stone cutters of Allie
gheny County, Pa, was begun for an
increase in wages of 10 cents an
hour. The men have been receiving
so cents an hour. Over 500 men are
idle and about $1,000 members of
other occupations will be affected.
The Bookbinders' union has been
offered a site of land adjoining the
Printers Home at Colorado Springs
and the national brotherhood is con-
sidering the matter. The question
may be referred to the locals for vote
the style of home to be
erected.
The recent convention of the Litho-
graphic Press Feeders International
Union decided upon the formation of
allied trade councils in every city of
in the country. These
are to be based on lines laid
down by the allied printing trades
The United Brotherhood of Carpen.
ters and Joiners of America, and the
Society of Carpenters.
which has it's headquarters in Eng
and. have decided upon Adolph Stras-
ser, former president Of the Cigar
makers International Union, to arbi-
rate their differences.
There has been no further trouble
between the non-uniOn men and the
striking machinists at the Riverside
,lant of the United States Steel Cor.
,oration at Benwood, w. Va. The
works are in operation and everything
S quiet, with no signs of another out
Freak at this time.
At the close of a stormy session OF
he Central Federated union at New
FORK it was voted to stand by the
marine machinists' union in its strike
or an increase in wages. This means
hat the sympathetic strike tying up
II the shipyards in New York and
'icinity may be ordered. 4