Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-03-04
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secretary and treasurer, and another
provides for the appointment Of fifteen
district organizers, each Of whom is
to have supervision over district EN-
bracing three or more states. Edward
Trunk, Peoria, ILL.,, was elected presi
dent.
Ninety-eight Chicago carriage and
wagon manufacturers have signed
their names to the agreement that
they will not reopen their shops until
ordered to do so by majority Of the
association. The lockout has beer
made more effective every day since
it was declared. In the week past
twenty small shops have been shut
and there is not now one factory OF
Importance running in Chicago.
A Massachusetts committee investi
eating the relations between employer
and employee is divided on the ques.
ton of the use of injunctions In labor
disputes. Carroll d. Wright, Royal
Robbins and d. r. Dewey, a majority
of the committee, favor the present
law. while Henry Sterling wants jury
trials in contempt cases, and William
N Osgood wants peaceable labor dem.
STATIONS protected from injunctions
At Cincinnati, Ohio, Judge Hosea
of the Superior court. made perpetual
temporary injunction granted
against the journeymen plumbers as
sociation and the building trades
council, forbidding them to interfere
by patrolling, intimidation or persua
sion with the employees of the master
plumbers. This is case where e
strike was ordered by way of dis
cipline to compel the payment Of dues
to union.
At a recent meeting of the Church
Association for the Advancement OF
the interests of Labor in New York
City the audience was startled by the
facts and figures given by Jacob Pan.
ken, one of the organizers Of the
Ladies' Garment Workers Union. Mr.
Panken said: There are SOB places
in the lower East Side where ladies'
garments are made, and large pro
portion of the work is done at home
There are 300 tenement house sweat
shops in Chrystie street; in Elizabeth
street, in the Italian quarter, 70S; in
Mott street, 512; in Mulberry street,
$685."
New York painters are seeking leg.
islation, to be framed on lines of q
German law, prohibiting the use OF
white lead in paint for public build
ings. At the hearing the journeymcn
painters representatives will show
how many of their fellow craftsmen
are annually crippled with partial
paralysis from white lead poisoning,
and urge this relief as public health
measure. The bill proposes zinc
white" as substitute.
The Terre Haute (Ind.) carpenters
have presented scale Of wages fol
the season beginning April 1, which
calls for an advance from a sliding
scale Of from 22k to 30 cents an houi
to minimum of IS cents. 1t is also
stipulated that no carpenter is to
work on a job where ,aborers are
permitted to handle carpenters tools
The building contractors have taken
no concerted action, but in talking OF
tho demand individual contractors say
they cannot ray it.
II John Turner, the Englishman de
tanned on Ellis island, New York.
charged with being an anarchist, is
not released, it will not be the fault
of the Chicago Federation of Labor.
The organization voted to take up
Turner's cause, and laid down two
lines Of action. A petition to both
houses of congress asking that the
law under which the Englishman is
held be repealed was Endorsed and
will be circulated among trades union
members. Each union also was called
IN to give at least 50 to fund to assist
in carrying Turner's case to the
United States Supreme court.
as not organized labor a trust, and
where will you find trust with such
power and such dividends?" This
question was recently put to Samuel
1ompers, president Of the American
Federation of Labor. "You may call
t trust. replied Mr.. Gompers, "but
t is trust for the good of the many
ind not for the individual few. The
combinations of capital try to elimi-
tate every one but themselves. They |
ry to freeze out as many Of their
,wn members as they can, and the
zig fish eat the little ones. Our trust,
( you call it so, is open to all. We
Welcome every one, and our only aim
$ the good of the country and Of all
he members of our organization"
The special committee appointed by
Governor Bates of Massachusetts, last
July under resolution of the legisla-
ure of 1903 to investigate the rela.
ions between employer and employee
las made it's report. The committee
PRESENTS workingmen's compensa-'
ion act, a substitute for the employ
RS liability law, although that is al
owed to stand on the statutes. This
5 the most radical feature of the re-
ort, and no legislation of the kind
as been attempted in this country.
he report recommends that the law
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