Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-13
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

SOURCES
The bakers of New York are max
ing a strong fight to maintain wages
and to establish sanitary conditions IN
their trade.
Five hundred beef boners In the
Chicago Stock Yards have been grant,
ed an increase of Is per cent in wages
by the packing firms.
The Colorado Court of Appeals has
decided that if an employer hires men
to take the place of strikers he is
liable for damages if any of the men
are injured.
The news comes from Texas that
the manager of the Thurber mines
at Fort Worth has just granted an In
crease in wages to the miners that
will amount to 100000 a year.
The mill and mine owners and
operators of the Galena-Joplin district
have completed plans for total shut
down of the mines and mills to force
| the price of ore above the prices now
offered by the smelling combine.
Adjutant General Scott of Illinois,
has approved of the recommendation
that the First and Eighth Infantry
bands be dismissed for refusing to
take part in the Centennial parade at
| Chicago. The bands have been dis
banded.
A report made by the American con-
sui at Havana, Cuba, shows that car
penters who work there get as much
as $3.50 a day, mechanics So, masons
$3.50, printers $3.50 and laborers $1.25.
The wages are paid in Spanish gold
for ten-hour day.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
in the Federal court against the Brick
LAYERS union of Louisville by the
Hydraulic Brick company, which Is
said to have been boycOtted last Aug
ust by the union. Each member OF
the union, 113 in all, is made party
to the suit.
The Journeyman Stonecutters' AS
sociation of America, which recently
voted against affiliation with the A. f..
of L., has decided to take another
vote on the subject. This time rec
concentration in favor of affiliation
will be sent out by the national execu-
| tive board of the association.
The editor of the Mine Workers
Journal says that the miners have
gained nearly 81 per cent increase In
wages since their great strike. For
every dollar that they used to draw
in the pay envelope they now receive
s1.27-an increase that will make a
| great deal of difference in the miners
home.
The executive board Of the United
Association of Plumbers, Gasfitters and
Steamfitters has elected the following
men to represent the association at
the coming convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor: John s.
Kelley, Chicago; w. }. Spenceh, Sioux
City, Iowa, and Russell Hunt, Schen-
ectady, N. Y.
| Now that Japan Is attracting so
much attention it is worth knowing
that there are 100000 members Of
labor unions in that little country.
| Since the unions were organized they
have almost entirely abolished child
labor; they have cut down the hours
of work and improved the sanitary
conditions in the factories.
The Denmark government spent
100000 last year in making farmers
It appears that any farm laborer who
can save onetenth of the price of
plot of land can borrow the remainder
of the money from the government.
He is charged per cent. In addition
to this, the government sends an ex-
pert professor Of agriculture to give
each farmer free lessons in farming.
Two hundred and fifty trunk and
bag workers who have been on strike
against LAM, Owen & Co. of Chicago
for seven weeks, have returned to
work. The men demanded when they
struck nine-hour day with ten hours
pay and 10 per cent increase in wages
for piece workers. The settlement was
made for a nine and half hour day
and a per cent increase in wages
for piece workers.
According to advices from cities
along the line of the New York Cen
trail railroad and allied lines, the
order recently promulgated to dismiss
liz per cent of the employees of car