Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-10-23
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
A notice has been posted in the Pen
coyd Iron mills at Philadelphia that
all wages will be reduced from 10 to
20 per cent.
Owing to the overproduction OF iron
ore over 5000 men have been dis
charged from mines in the Lake Su-
perior district.
The officials of the Baltimore 4
Ohio have agreed to reinstate the men
whose discharge aroused the anger
of the brotherhood.
Labor unions at st. Joseph, Mo-.
are in a wrangle over strikes Tor
wages on the st. Joseph and Grand
Island railway bridge.
The Southern Furnac Mems AssO-
ciatlon has agreed on 20 per cent
reduction of pig iron output and to
maintain existing prices.
New York steamfitters and helpers
to the number of 1000 have agreed
to accept the terms of the Building
Trades Emploers' association.
The coal miners who struck in the
Springfield, ILL.,, subdistrict have been
ordered back to work by the union,
which had not authorized the strike.
Nine hundred men were thrown eut
of work by the closing of the North
Mahanoy colliery Of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company.
Painters on the Manhattan Elevated
railroad in New York threaten to tie
up the road by a sympathetic strike
unless the company agrees to employ
none out union painters.
Fifteen members of the carriage and
wagon painters union, employed en-
the First National Bank Building at
Chicago, went on :; strike. demanding
an increase of five cents an hour in
their pay.
The Empire Steel and Iron company,
which operates six furnaces, and the
Thomas Iron company, which operates
six stacks. posted notices of 10
per cent cut in wages. The reduc-
ton affects 900 men.
Eugene. Richter, secretary of the
Chicago Railroad Clerks Union, left
on months tour of the South for the
purpose of organizing the railroad
clerks in New Orleans, Atlanta, Mobile
and Charleston, s. c.
AS result of the long protracted
strike of the miners at Cripple Creek
Of n lie, in, hot
district. The military is in control of
all matters of government, and all
other authority is without force.
The international. Union of Brick
layers and Stonemasons has decided
to locate it's international headquar-
tiers at Indianapolis, Ind, and has sub
mitted the proposition of the change
to the membership for referendum
vote.
A partial settlement was reached
in the dyers' and cleaners strike at
Chicago. The members of the men s
union were granted the nine-hour day,
without reduction in wages, and the
helpers receive a five cents an hour
advance.
President Theodore J. Shaffer of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Tin Workers will remain at the head
of the organization, The board of
inquiry investigating the charges of
neglect of duty preferred against him
gave out this information.
After a lockout of over seven
months the 600 employees of the Tay-
lor and Beach streets plant of the
American Corn Products company,
known as the Chicago glucose factory,
go back to work under union condi-
lions, with union pay and hours.
Plans for the formation of build
ing trades labor trust. affiliating in
round numbers 100000 workingmen
skilled in these trades, are reported
to have been worked out by promi-
nent officials of national labor organi-
cations, says the New York Herald.
Marble workers and settlers of Chi
cago are out on sympathetic strike
ordered they say, because of the Ma
tional Marble Dealers Association is
attempting to force an agreement
under which the workers will only
accept employment from members Of
that association.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
in the federal court at Louisville. Ky,
against the Bricklayers Union by the
Hydraulic Brick company, which is
said to have been boycotted last Aug
ust by the first named Organization.