Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-19
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.

Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The state report of the New Jersey
factory and workshop admits that II.
legal child labor exists in all parts OF
that state.
On Jan. 1 there were 224 1000 men
and women connected with the labor
unions of Chicago, an increase OF 1O4,'
900 members for the year 1903.
The executive board of the Brother
hood of Painters, Decorators and Pa
per Hangers of America held its semi
annual business session in Lafayette.
Ind.
The Carriage and Wagon Workers
International Union has voted to To-
cate its general secretary, P. ]. Null
ligan, and headquarters in New York
city.
President George T. Thornton OF
Boston Bricklayers' Union 3 has been
elected third vice president OF the
Bricklayers and Stonemasons' Inter-
national Union.
The Citizens Industrial Association
of America, from it's headquarters IN
Indianapolis, Is making determined
fight against the eight-hour bill pend
ing in congress.
The Socialistic candidates for off,
GERS of the Chicago Federation OF La
Dor, who had proclaimed that they
were going to win, were showed I'M
der in the election.
James R. Sovereign, former head OF
the knights of Labor, is row mil
iionaire mine owner in Idaho, 1t Is
stated, grub" stake of some years
ago having proved bonanza.
The iron holders organization.
which last year amalgamated the core
makers, is now agitating an amalga-
nation of the consolidated union with
the patternmakers' and stovemount-
ers' internationals.
The financial reports presented at
the convention of the Bricklayers and
Masons International union at Tren-
ton, N. j., showed balance in the
local treasures of $279523 and in the
general treasury of $245,00O.
Postmaster General Payne has sent
q letter to Chairman Overstreet of the
house committee on postoffices and
post roads, recommending provision
for increased pay to city and rural
free delivery letter carriers.
The secretary of the United Gar
ment Workers of Great Britain. Lewis
Lyons, writes from headquarters at
London that the American union label
for clothing has been copied and
adopted by the English organization.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters.
which already has a general death
and sick benefit system, is to adopt
the elaborate system of the amalga-
mated association with the consolida-
ton of the two internationals on
Jan. 1, 1905.
The compact between the merchants
of Beloit, Wis, and the retail clerks
union has expired and will not be re-
newed. The merchants will adopt
some plan of closing certain nights of
the week, but 1t will be regardless of
the clerks union.
At a meeting of more than twenty
coal operators on New river. w. Va,
employing in the aggregate 5000 min
ers, it was unanimously voted not to
reduce the wages Of miners this
year. This means no strike in the
New river territory.
The miners of the Red Ash Coal
Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, have de-
cided to call off the strike which has
been on for six months past. At con-
ference the company agreed to rein
state the discharged driver boys whose
dismissal caused the strike.
international Typographical Union
Organizer John E. Mclaughlin reports
that Local No. 424 has enrolled every
journeyman printer within it's jurisdic-
tion-the Oranges, Montclair and
Bloomfield, N. j., making what he
terms "a 100 per cent union"
The convention of glassworkers at
Mount Jewett, Pa, called for the pur-
pose of deciding upon the proposed re-
duction in wages contemplated by the
manufacturers, ended with an agree
ment to stand by the Philadelphia
scale. Nearly 30O delegates were
present at the sessions. including rep
resentatives from Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Indiana and Kansas. The
men will quit work rather than accept
reduction in wages.
The building situation in Pittsburg.
Pa, is rapidly clearing. The orna-
mental iron workers and housesmiths
and employers have agreed on new
scale. The men will receive the same
rate of wages as last year and decided
not to obey any sympathy strike Or
aers.
BY direction of the executive coun-
ell of the American Federation of La
Dor, President Samuel Gompers sailed
from New York Feb. Is for Porto
Rico, to investigate industrial condi-