Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-07

national unions have been in confer
ence at Lafayette, Ind, to amicablyl
settle jurisdiction questions between
the two big organizations.
San Francisco is said to be the city
where the labor unions have the most
power in the United States and where
labor is most perfectly organized.
There are 1862 separate unions with
a membership of more than $4,000.
| International Secretary Donnelly OF
the Interior Freight Handlers and
Warehousemen's Union received word
from st. Joseph, Mo-, that the freight
handlers of that city had won their
strike for Is per cent increase in
wages after being on strike three
days.
New Orleans Central Trades Coun-
Gil, composed of the white unions,
has invited the colored unions to pa
rade with them Labor day. If the in
vitation is accepted it will be the first
time the colored and white unions
have marched together in twenty
years.
The Iron and Heavy Hardware
Builders Union of Chicago is the first
to inaugurate a plan to protect old
age. The constitution now provides
that members shall not be debarred
from employment on account of age,
so long as they are able to perform
their duties.
Bricklayers and Stone Masons' In
ternational Union is again taking
referendum vote on the question OK
af1iliatng with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. The. general impress
sion among those who are watching
the vote is that the big body will join
the federation.
Judge B. F. Dunwiddie Of the Cir
cult Court of Rock County, Wiscon-
sin, granted a restraining injunction
against picketing at the Berlin Ma
chine Works in Beloit. The injunc-
ton is very sweeping in its nature.
The machinists union has been out on
a strike for nine weeks.
The mayor of Granite City, ILL.,,
has appealed to the Illinois State
Board of Arbitration to settle the
strike between. the Granite City
Manufacturing Company and its car
penter employees. Members Geiger and
Mathis of the state board went to
Granite City at once to bring about
peace.
The committee of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor in charge of the
Labor day demonstration this year
intends to properly celebrate the day
the twenty-frst anniversary of the
establishment of this holiday by or
ganized labor and ninth anniversary
of 1t being made legal holiday by
congressional enactment.
D. ]. Keefe of Chicago and H. G.
Barter, president and secretary-treas-
urer respectively Of the International
Longshoremen, Marine and Transport
Workers Association, were reelected
unanimously at the close of the
twelfth annual convention of the as
ISOLATION at Bay City, Mich. Milwau-
kee was chosen as the next place Of
meeting.
The annual reports of the officers
of the International Typographical
Union are being received by the dele
gates who are going to the conven-
ton. The union gained 1000 men,
bers and issued 159 new charters last
year. There are now 500 locals en-
rolled under the banner of the l.. T.
u, the Oldest international union in
continuous existence in this country.
Truck Drivers Union No. of Chi
cago is said to be the largest local
union in the world. 1t has $4,000
members. 1t will elect twenty-five
delegates to the Niagara Falls joint
convention for amalgamation of the
two national teamsters' unions. The
arbitration board of the two nation
ais, which met at Washington last
week, decided on the amalgamation
scheme to be presented to the joint
convention.
The declaration of First Vice Pres
ident Joyce of the longshoremen's
union in the convention at Bay City,
Mich, in. favor of discrimination
against all vessel owners who are not
members of the Lake Carriers asso-
citation, is generally regarded as the
beginning of fight against the Steel
trust and Gilchrist fleets and several
lines of vessels owned by railroads.
The matter was referred to the exec
utive council.
Freight and passenger trainmen
employed by the Alton and the ILL
nois Central railroads have been
granted an increase in pay ranging
from IL to Is per cent. This is the
result of negotiations which have ex-
tended over three months, and which
were conducted on the part of the en-
ployes by the Brotherhood Of Rail-
road Trainmen and the Order of Rail-
way Conductors. Employees on freight &
trains receive an increase of 15 per
cent and those on passenger trains
get IL per cent.
The annual report on strikes and
lockouts in Great Britain In 1902.
uh ioh racently issued shows that the &