Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-06-10
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from many
Sources.
The closing day of the convention
of the Amalgamated Association OF
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers
reelected the old officers.
Owing to differences over wage
scale, about $50 bakers went on strike
at Cleveland and the bread output will
be decreased from 100000 loaves to
$4,000.
Seven hundred carpenters, shut out
since May 1, have returned to work,
at Des Moines, all differences having
been settled. 1t is believed the end OF
the big labor war Is now in sight.
Robert A. Callahan Of Boston and
Jere Sullivan of Cincinnati were re-
elected president and secretary OF the
Hotel and Restaurant Employers Ma
tional Alliance by the general conven-
ton at Rochester.
The Loretto mine, at Loretto, Mich.
shut down, throwing about 200 men
out of employment. Many mines are
| closing and miners are leaving Tor
Europe on account of the general de-
preston on the range.
Chicago hotel cooks have made
| demand for a ten-hour day and a
| closed shop agreement. Heretofore
they have been working eleven hours
a day. Their demand will be consid-
cred by their employers within few
days.
Nearly all the striking miners, sew
| enty-nine in number, who were driven
from Ludlow to Trinidad. Colo, dis
lance of twenty miles, by a cavalry
troop, have been released after hav-
ing been registered by the military
| authorities.
Arbitration has settled the wage
scale of 1000 union painters at New
York, and the agreement has been
signed. 1t grants an increase of SO
| cents day, making the scale 81 and
S425 for plain and decorative point
ers, respectively.
AS the result of notices served on
the Minneapolis trades unions, 5000
men struck May rs. The open shop
system will be started by the con-
tractors allied in the Builders and
Traders Exchange at that time, say
the notices, regardless of what the
unions do.
The International Brotherhood OF
Papermakers adjourned, after electing
officers and deciding to hold the next
convention at Holyoke, Mass. Geo.
Mackey of Watertown, N. Y, was
| chosen president and Frank e. Mace
of Neenah, Wis, is one of the vice
presidents.
The strike of the freight handlers
on the Fall River and Providence line
of sound steamboats, assumed serious
proportions and a complete tieup of
the sound fleet is threatened. The
| Norwich and New Haven companies
men have gone out and the Stoning-
ton line Is crippled:
The Springfield, ILL.,, Federation of
Labor has 5000 paid up union men,
bers and is steadily growing. The
teamsters are divided into two local
unions-those who own not more than
one team and those who are hired by
the day. All conditions are peaceful.
the unions securing good agreements
May / without strikes.
In an interview at Cleveland Dis
trict Captain Paul Howell Of the Mas
tiers and Pilots Association charged
the members of the Lake Carriers AS
ISOLATION with conspiring to use the
present controversy over the demands
of the masters and pilots as an ex-
cuse to keep their boats out Of COM
mission in order to force freight rates
| to an abnormal figure,
A German professor named Schmol-
Ter has been studying the question OF
wages for thirty years and has lately
published the results of his re-
searches in French magazine. He
says that the four principal causes of
high wages in modern times are as
| follows: /. Trade unions. 2. Popular
| education. 3. Better social training.
4. More humanity among the
| weather. classes.
New wage scales Of sixteen unions
| in the Chicago stock yards, with a
| membership of nearly $4,000, whose
agreements with the packers expire
! soon. we're indorsed at e meeting Of