Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-07-17

W otiCcI railway Coupduy 6uhTuS,
who fired leads of buckshot into a
crowd of strike sympathizers at Main
and Lombardy streets, just outside
the city limits. The company claims
that the guards were first fired on.
1T is striking fact that the aver
age gain made by labor organizations
has been indefinitely greater of late
years than in any proceeding period,
Notwithstanding the fact that labor
has been opposed by great combina-
tions Of capital" said DR.. John Bates
Clark in an address at the University
Of Chicago.
At the recent meeting of the Typo
graphical Union Of Illinois, officers for
the year were elected as follows:
President, B. S. Chambers, of Chica-
go; vice president, j. H. Brampall, Of
Alton; secretary and treasurer, J. A.
Onyon, of Peoria. Springfield was
chosen for the next place Of meeting
in June, 1904.
Chauncey M. Depew, in an inter-
view last week, said: Strikes are
signboards of prosperity, nothing
more and nothing less. You never
hear of strikes in hard times. A
strike is an effort to adjust the proper
share Of labor. One good result Of
strike is that it forces both sides Of
the controversy to organize"
The New York building trades en-
ployes' association has proposed an
elaborate plan for join. arbitration in
each trade and other regulations for
dealing with the unions and bringing
about stable conditions in the build
ing industry. The unions are recog-
nized, but the business agent is not
to be an arbitrator in any case.
The strike of the car repairers and
carpenters of the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern shops in Joliet was settled
through the mediation of a commit
tee of switchmen. A compromise was
effected, by which an advance of
cent an hour is given to the men. If
the roads running into Chicago grant
nine-hour day that rule will be es-
tablished at the shops there.
AS far from each other as the poles
are employer and employee in New
York's labor. The employers say they
will not permit work to be resumed
until the unions have signed their ar
bitration plan, while the union men
say they will not consider arbitration
until work is resumed under the con-
ditions which prevailed before the
strikes and lockouts were declared.
This leaves no middle ground.
The Chicago board of arbitration
adjusted the wage differences between
city and their wagon employees. The
decree gives the men an advance
varying from to Is per cent, and
requires the companies to sign the
first agreement they have ever made
with a labor organization. The new
scale affects about 1000 men, and
adds approximately 100000 to the
yearly pay rolls of the companies.
w. A. Walker of Boston, president
of the American foundrymen's asso-
citation, in his annual address at the
convention of those employers at Mil
waukee, declared: 1--WE shall come
to an understanding in the future that
a manufacturer should be willing to
pay the highest wages that the state
of his industry will permit; his work.
men are his partners; why should
their welfare not concern him even
more than that of his customers"
The strike of the Dubuque Union
motermen was settled through the
good offices of the municipal affairs
committee of the Dubuque club. The
company agrees not to discriminate
against union men, to recognize the
unions grievance committee, to allow
appeals to directors from the general
managers decisions, to reinstate all
strikers and to give clearance cards
to Devereaux, Noonan and Hennessy.
whose discharge caused the strike.
The wage scale Of the Amal~amated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
for the ensuing year was signed by
the officials of the Carnegie Steel
company for the American Steel Hoop
plants. All Of the companies con-
trolled by the United States Steel
Corporation have now signed wage
scales for the year beginning July
with the Amalgamated Association,
and there will be no stoppage at any
of the plants because of wage dis
putes.
Daniel ]. Keefe, president of the
Longshoremen and Transport Work.
ers' International Union, is expected
in Chicago soon to bring about a set.
Element of the strike of the iron ore
handlers at the plant Of the Illinois
Steel Company at South Chicago. The
strikers say the International organi-
cation with its 100000 members on the
lakes is behind them, and that unless
the company recedes the strike will
spread to all ore carrying boats that
may be consigned to South Chicago.
Delegates to the convention Of
teamsters to be held the first week ia
August at Niagara Falls are now bs.
ing elected. At that meeting, which
is to be composed of delegates from
the Transfers National Union locals
and the International Team Drivers