Kansas agitator., 1904-09-09

ing the labor movement in this coun'
try, it seems. by order of Pope Plus
X, who is deeply interested and de-
sired to secure information regarding
labor conditions here, also data re-
garding the treatment of employees by
employers, especially great corpora
tions.
Judge Humphrey, in the federal
court at Springfield, ILL.,, overruled the
motion of the striking miners and Of
ficers of miners unions to dissolve
the temporary injunction which he
had issued restricting the strikers
| or officers Of miners unions from
picketing the Ziegler Coal company's
property, or in any manner interfer
ing with the operation of the mlne.
All the boilermakers of the N. Y.
| N. H. & II. r. r. system who strucl
sixteen weeks ago returned to work
The settlement calls for the nine-hOul
workday, an increase of wages of 1k
cents an hour, and the establishment
of shop rules desired by the union
from the shops by the road officials
and every man was given his old job
The Carnegie Steel Company serve
notices on all the clerks in the Sout
Sharon office that their services ar
no longer required. The reason givel
is that the blast furnace construction
is completed and no other department
of the big works will be operated
This will mean the closing of thu
open-hearth steel department, which
employs $500 men when running full
time.
Joshua A. Leach was the founder
and first grand master of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. He
built the bridge over which more
than $4,000 men have found their way
to the benefits derived from belong
ing to labor organization. Mr.. Leach
was born in Negay, Ireland, May
1S43. Soon after his birth his parent.
came to America and settled in New
York.
The Amalgamated Association
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers declared
a strike against the Carnegie Stee
company. Three large plants-two al
Youngstown, o., and one at Girard, o.
are involved, and several thousand
men are affected. The strike is
protest against a reduction in wages
and the declaration of the company
that its mills will be run on the open
shop" principle in the future.
The international socialist and
trades union congress at Amsterdam,
Holland, at it's final sitting adopted a
resolution calling on all socialists and
trades unions to organize annual dem.
onstrations in favor of an eight hour
day and to stop work on May day. A
resolution in regard to trusts, which
was also passed, set forth that social
lists ought to direct their efforts to-
ward the Specialization of produc-
tion."
The management of the steel hoop
department of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany has issued orders that the men
III thO Siohl-ihSh uSPoi thNhe Va eAiN
plant must report for duty at once,
otherwise the mill would be declared
open and other men employed in their
places. A meeting of the conference
committee of the Amalgamated asso-
citation has been called to discuss the
situation. The ultimatum issued by
the steel trust is direct blow against
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers and is be-
lieved to be the first step toward non
unionizing all its mills in the Mahon-
ing and Shenango valleys.
Four hundred miners, employed by
the Chicago Virden Coal company at
Virden, walked out on the order of
James Maxwell, president of the local
union. The miners claim that the op-
orators are violating the law by al
lowing the fire boss to examine the
mine after each working day instead
of each morning before the miners
enter the mines. The walkout fol-
lowed a fruitless conference between
Manager F. w. Lukins and commit
tee of the miners.
The convention of the International
Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen ad-
journed to meet in Omaha in August,
1906 officers were elected as follows:
President, Timothy Healy, New York;
secretary and treasurer. Z. l.. Shamp,
Omaha. Amendments to the constitu-
tion were adopted fixing the terms of
officers at two years and providing for
biennial meetings instead of annual
A motion by Delegate Barrett of Low.
ell, Mass declaring it to be the sense
of the convention that the delegates
go on record as opposed to the "open
shop" was carried unanimously
Interest in the lockout of the build
ing trades and the strike of the butch.
ers has, during the past two weeks,
overshadowed the strike of the cloth
ing cutters of New York, which is now
rounding out, in an atmosphere of
peace, six weeks contest. Both |
sides are claiming the victory-the
bosses because the "open shop" signs
still hang in their establishments, and |
the union because it's men are back at |
work under conditions as favorable as
uban the ryDture occurred with good