Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02

should be the same as before the
strike. The packers claim that there
will be other breaks in the ranks of
the strikers before many days. The
strike leaders promise interesting de-
velopments in few days, but decline
to make known the nature of their
next move.
Frank Buchanan, president of the
bridge and structural ironworkers'
union, has announced he will resign
as international head of the union at
the coming Toronto convention. He
says his health has gone bad and he
believes that to get back to the hard
work of the trade will improve it. So,
although of national reputation for
marvellous ability as an organizer, d.
rector and executive, Mr.. Buchanan
says the job he is going to take is one
OF riveting with his old gang in Pitts
burg.
Settlement has been reached by the
executive committee of the Glass Bot.
tie and Vial Manufacturers Associa.
ton and the Glass Blowers Associa,
tion on the scale of wages for the
coming year. Demand by the men
for an increase in pay for making
seamless bottles was withdrawn and
the scale paid to blowers last year
was continued for the coming blast.
The request for Saturday half holf
day, which has been bone of conten.
ton for several years, was also drop
ped by the men.
The International Typographical
union concurred in the report of the
committee on eight-hour day, fixing
Jan, 1, 1906. as the time when the
eight-hour law should be effective or
strike declared. The question is left
to the subordinate unions for final de-
cisiOn on a referendum vote. The re-
port of the committee on Union Print.
ers' Home, recommending a 1914, 900
addition to the building, was adopted,
and the delegates to the American
Federation Of Labor were instructed
to advocate the establishment Of
universal union label
Tobacco workers representing all
parts of the globe met Aug. q at Am.
sterdam, Holland, at the international
cong1 ess Of tobacco workers, to dis
cuss matters of interest to the trade.
Among the subjects which will be dis.
cussed are plans to make it possible
fol members from a foreign country
to become entitled to a part of the
sick fund existing there and plans to
regulate apprenticeship. Holland and
Belgium have proposed a discussion
on the question as to whether IL
would be useful for the tobacco work.
ers to follow a general political pro-
gramme.
The work of the fiftieth annual con.
vention of the International Typo
graphical union, which adjourned sine
die Aug 10, resulted in the complete
revision of many of the general laws
embodied in the constitution that will
have far-reaching effect on the print
crs' trade. The action favoring the
eighthour day stands out pre-eminent.
ly. If the referendum before which
this proposition has been placed con
ours, as the delegates believe it will,
$4,000 union printers throughout Can.
ada and the United States will be af.
tected. 1t is provided that the law
shall go into effect Jan. 1, 1906, and q
fund is to be raised by assessment to
stand the expenses of strike if IL
should be found necessary to resort
to such a measure.
Lithographers' international union
convention elected the following off,
GERS: General president, John W.
Hamilton, st. Louis; LIST vice presi.
dent, James P. Pritchard, New York;
I'd vice president, A. ]. Lawrence, Ak
ron, o.; Sd vice president Charles
Traung, San Francisco; 4th vice presi.
dent, B. ]. Tighe, Chicago; 5th vice
president, P. j. Patterson, Toronto,
Canada; general secretary-treasurer,
James j. McCafferty, Philadelphia,
all of whom constitute the general
elective board. The new ratio for ap.
prentices is, in large shops, one for
first five mechanics, two for ten,
three for fifteen, and so on. In shops
where there are less than five me-
chanics, one apprentice for every two
mechanics. The hours have been re-
duced from SO per week to 4S without
a reduction in wages.
A few weeks ago suit was begun
in the courts of San Francisco by
President French of the local typo
graphical union there to restrain the
Citizens alliance from using a label
on its printed matter similar in size
and, design to that used by the Inter
national Typographical union. A
short time ago Judge M. C. Sloss OF
the Superior court in San Francisco
issued the Injunction in favor of the
printers. In his decision he said:
Whether the alliance label so closely
resembles the union label as to CON
stitute an infringement is purely
question of fact. A mere inspection
of the two designs Is sufficient to con
virce any one that the alliance label
was patterned and designed with the
view of producing device which
should, in its general aspect, resem
BILE that of the Typographical union
If there could be any doubt on this