Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
NEWS OF THE LABOR FIELD.
items Of Interest aGthered From Many
, Sources.

Philadelphia textile works employ
6,60S children under 16 years of age.
Union bakers at Columbus, Ohio,
will organize the cracker handlers
and bread statesmen.
At the beginning of the year there
were 10000 women members OF labor
unions in New York state.
At the beginning OF this year the
total membership of the Austrian Fed
Grafton of Trades Unions was 164,4S8.
Union carpenters at Newport, r.
l., have rejected the contract pre-
sented by the Builders Association
and the strike continues.
Striking shoe operatives at Mon
treal, Can, have returned to work,
their strike resulting in an ignomin-
ious defeat for the organization.
The United Garment Workers at
Chicago, composed entirely of women,
has a membership of 5000 1t is
the largest women's union in that city,
Samuel SimoBs of Boston was elect
ed one of the national board of trust
ees of the united garment workers
union at the Indianapolis convention.
1t is reported that the Western I'm
ion conyemplates an advance to its
operators which will average SIS a
month About 5000 men will be af
fected.
The South African labor problem
presents the fact that ii they all work
ed there you'd not he enough ma
mSeifts' o"aHs .s the growing require
After being cut sixteen wee
striking machimists of the Berlin
(Wis.) machine works have returned
to work without any concessions on
the part of the company.
Telegraph operators of the Chica-
go, Rock Island - Pacific railway .sys-
tenn have petitioned for a 10 per cent
increase in wages land nine hours
work day instead Of ten.
A number of firms lin Wheeling. w.
Va, have refused to .concede the de-
,mands of the union timers. The lat
ter's strike has been dragging on In
consequence since April l.
A rumor is gaining ground at To
ir0nto, Can, that the molders' strike
will be settled by arbitration, the
Deputy Minister Of Labor having Of
fered his services as arbitrator.
All the South Wales tin plate works
controlled by the Employers Associa-
ton closed for M indefinite period, in
consequence of a wage dispute. From
10000 to 10000 workmen are affected.
Carpenters at Toledo, Ohio. who
were holding out for 371a cents an
.hour, have compromised on 35 cents.
This agreement lasts for a certain
period. when the advanced scale goes
:into effect.
The headquarters of the Amalga-
mated Leather Workers International
Union have been removed from Olean.
N. Y, to Philadelphia. Dennis
Healey of Lowell is the international
president.
Bracklayers and plasterers at Utica
N. Y. who have been out for several
weeks. voted to return to work. The
strike was sympathetic walkout, due
to trouble between carpenters and
their employers.
About $50 longshoremen employed
by the Joy Steamship company went
on strike at New York because of the
discharge Of the head stevedore. At
tempts at compromise failed A num-
Der of non-union men were put to
work.
Six hundred teamsters at Seattle,
Wash, have struck to enforce their
demands for higher wages and shorter
hours. The building trades will prob.
ably be drawn into the controversy
II material is hauled by non-union
teamsters.
Three national unions Of railway
clerks may consolidate under the ban
ner of the American Federation O;
Labor. The newest of them is the |
International Association of Railway
Clerks, which was formed in Chicago,
ILL.,. last April
Transcontinental railroads in West
err Washington have sent East In |
an effort to secure a sufficient supply |
Of labo: to carr. 90 heir construc-
ton work The men are engaged at
wages 10 per cent higher than the
companies paid at this time last year.