Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-12-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

| Sources.
The Pittsburg Traction company
will advance the wages of it's en-
ployes.
The Edwards cotton mills, Augusta,
Maine, announce cut in wages to
! take effect Nov. 80. About 1900 en-
ployes are affected.
Many of the delegates who voted
for the socialist resolution at the New
Orleans convention of the Federation
of Labor year ago voted against it
at Boston.
The strike of the bridgemen on the
Grand Island river bridge near Kan
sas City was settled, and thirty Chi
cago bridgemen were sent to the work
the other day.
The Pittsburg Steel Works, employ
ing 1000 men, has resumed opera
tions. The American Tin Plate Com
pany will also resume, and the Port
Vue tin plate plant close for repairs.
The auditing committees report at
the A. F. of l.. convention showed
that the receipts last year were $780,
02S.69; expenses, $196,015.51, leaving
a balance in the treasury of $780,
013.12.
Fifteen hundred of the 5000 en-
ployes of the Passaic Steel company
have voted to strike if the company
makes a cut of 10 per cent in wages,
as it has announced its intention of
doing.
The cotton mills owned by M. c. D.
Borden of New York will follow the
other Fall River mills in the reduction
OF wages. Notices of the cut down of
10 per cent have been posted. Nearly
10000 operatives will be affected.
The Central Foundry company,
which operates one of the largest
plants in indianapolis, has closed it's
doors as the result of the recent labor
troubles. The closing down of the
plant has thrown about 200 men out
of employment.
For the first time since the disas-
trous strike of thirteen years ago,
when the Coke Miners union was
completely wiped out in Pennsylvania,
efforts are now being made to organ
lie the $4,000 coke miners in the Con-
nellsville region.
Venor & Montgomery shoe manu-
facturers of Rochester, voluntarily re-
duced the hours of labor in their fac
tory from ten to nine last week. The
employees responded by sending let
ter of thanks for the spirit of fair
ness" shown by their employers.
John B. Lennon, general secretary
of the Journeymen Tailors' Union of
America and treasurer of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor, is pioneer
Of the labor movement and has the
reputation of being one of the most
upright workers in labor's cause.
National officers of the United Tex
tile Workers union announce that the
work of organizing the textile workers
IN the southern mills is at an end, so
Tar as the union is concerned. The
attempt to organize the southern
workers in that industry, which has |
ended in failure, has cost thousands |
If dollars.
BY a referendum vote the Bricklay- |
,rs and Masons International union
las decided in favor of the death ben.
fit feature obtaining in many of the
,ther trade unions. The new benefit
will be 500 to members who have
,een six months in good standing and
200 for those five years or more
teadily on the unions books.
With the approval of the unions
interested, day and even
ng school has been started at 5 Will
oughby street, Brooklyn, for technical
Instruction Of stationary engineers,
remen, oilers and water-tenders. The
curse is calculated to increase the
Mechanical information of engineers
nd to prepare the others for promo
ion.
United States Consul Baker at Sgd
ey, Australia, in special report on
abor in New South Wales, says that
ne length of the days work has been
xed at eight hours and minimum
age of $1.70 per day for common Ia
orers, with half holidays at the EN-.
lovers expense, and the state and
anks and factories give preference to
MON men.
The city central body of Birming-
am, Ala, has decided to test in the
,urts the constitutionality of the anti
oycott law recently enacted by the
legislature. The passage of
le law has resulted in the organiza-