Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-10-16
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
All Minneapolis -four mills were
closed by strike. No disorder ac-
companied the walking out of the
men.
The executive council of American
Federation of Labor has referred Mil
Ter case to a subcommittee for con-
sideration.
BY the lockout of the National AS
SOciation of Marble Dealers it is esti-
mated that 5000 men throughout the
country are idle.
Rumors are afloat that the govern
ment printing Office in Washington
will be equipped with modern type
setting machines.
The Alabama legislature passed
bill furnishing boycotts and blacklists
as conspiracy and providing action in
damages against those who formulate
or circulate them.
An Italian laborer was killed and
two other persons were injured in
riot on the Onconta, Cooperstown and
Richfield Springs trolley line as re-
suit of trouble over wage claims.
Four more judges, within month,
have declared picketing legal. They
we're Judges Donovan of Michigan,
Kelly of Minnesota Hemphill of Penn
sylvania and Kavanaugh of Illinois.
The Trade Union Congress of Great
Britain, which held its annual session
in Leicester the past week, adopted
a resolution favoring direct labor rep
resentation in the English parliament
Pennsylvania leads all other states
in the number of labor papers, with
fifteen; Ohio comes second with thir-
teen, Illinois has eight. Almost every
state and territory in the Union is
represented in the list of 1872 labor pa
pers.
President Hill of the Great North
e-n has opened war on the Car Mons
union by discharging one-fourth of all
the union men in ST. Paul, st. Cloud,
Hillyard and Everett shops. including
the leader in movement for in
creased wages.
for international conventions are for
the International union of seamen at
New York, Nov. 81; United textile
workers union, at Philadelphia, Oct.
81, and the National cotton spinners'
union, in Boston.
Adolph Strasser, former information.
al president of the cigarmakers' union,
oh Ia, tha ,tn
between the brotherhood and amalga.
mated carpenters unions. He has
heard the evidence and will give de-
cision next month.
Because the company refused prop
osition to arbitrate the motormen and
conductors of the Peoples Traction
Company, which operates line from
Galesburg, ILL.,. to Abingdon. struck.
The men were discharged. the men
say, because they joined the union.
The Indiana Federation of Labor
convention instructed the committee
ON law to make complete revision of
the present constitution in such a way
as to strengthen the organization and
enable the state officers to advance
the principles of the organization at
all times.
The controversy between the engi-
neers and firemen and the Great
Northern road was amicably settled.
The firemen are understood to have
been granted slight increase in
wages, and numerous minor changes
were made in the working rules of the
engineers.
All labor Influences have been di-
rected by the A. F. of l.. to be con-
centrated toward the passage by con-
eress of the eighthour and anti-in-
junction bills. Unions are requested
to write their senators and congress
men, stating their position on these
measures.
Reports at the annual convention of
the international brotherhood of cleo
trical workers, in session at Salt Lake,
showed that it has increased from
5000 to more than 81, 900 members in
two years. Despite the heavy drains
on the treasury the national funds
amount to more than 100000.
All labor unions in New York state
have been invited to send representa-
tives to the second annual convention
of the State Woman's Union Label
League, which meets in Rochester
Monday, Oct. 10. The representatives
are to be given the privilege of speak
ing on the claims of their particular
label or shop card.
General federation of trade unions
of Great Britain has proposed an
amendment to the Cancellation act Of