Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-04-01
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Manila Up. ~ Typographical union
No. 526 has secured the seyen-hour
workday for it's members and the Sat'
urday half holiday
William Aimison Of Nashville
Tenn, ex-president Of the Information
al Typographical union, is dead. lie
was so years of age.
Two hundred miners employed by
the Delaware and Hudson Company at
Lyon Mountain, N. Y, have struck LOT
an increase of wages.
The unions affiliated with the UNIT
ed Brotherhood of Leather workers
have by referendum vote postponed
their national convention from l9o4
to 1906. The last convention was held
lin Chicago in 1899.
At a meeting of the striking book
and lob printers in Boston the settle
ment of the strike arranged by union
officials was ratified, and the 25O en-
ployes who left work seven weeks ago
applied individually for their former
positions.
Mayor Patrick A. Collins OF Boston
1'turned down" the city laborers' re-
quest for increase of pay from W 10
2.25 a day on the ground that the city
was paying as much as others and the
treasury could not stand the drain OF
s19S,755 a year which it would cost.
Unless the employees return to work
at once the Canonsburg Steel and iron
Compauys works are likely to be
closed indefinitely. The men mad &C
cepted cut in wages, but misun-
Outstanding arose and the men quit
,pending a settlement by the Amalga-
mated officials.
About 900 employees of the Manhat-
tan Elevated Railroad system New
York; have been notified OF an In
crease in wages. Those affected are
tower men, hand switchmen, porters
and trackmen. An advance was grant
ed recently to the guards, who for
time talked Of strike.
Labor leaders at Iowa City, Iowa,
announce that the local unions will
fight the open-shop plan which the
Employers Protective Association
will put in force April /. 1t is posi-
BILE, however, that no strike will be
declared until after the meeting of the
state federation at Marshalltown, May
10th.
Frank Thoman, business agent of
the Architectural Iron workers union,
announces that the wage scale for
that craft is fixed until April l, 1906.
From April J. this year for one year
the wages are 52h cents an hour.
and SIS cents an hour from April
next year until the agreement ex-
pires.
The strike at the plants of the
American Window Glass Company at
Jeanette, Fa., has been called of,
pending conference with the officials
of the main Office of the company.
Work was resumed at midnight. The
strike was brought about by demand
for an increase of SO cents day in
wages and included the machine blow
ers, carriers off and splitters, 700 In
all.
Rumors are current in labor circles
that the executive council of the
American Federation Of Labor will
recommend to the next convention of
that body that permanent home and
building for the parent body of labor
be erected in Washington, and sub
NIT a plan to raise the. necessary
funds to acquire ground and put up
suitable building. -
Martin Lawlor of Bethel, N. j., vice
president of the United Hatters of |
North America, has been selected as |
secretary of that organization, vice |
John Phillips, deceased. Frank P.
Sha1voy of Newark, N. j., has been
chosen to succeed Mr.. Lawlor as vice
president. The headquarters of the
organization and Secretary Lawlor's |
Office will be at II Waverly place,
New York, in the future.
Chicago workingmen are in fair
way of obtaining the labor temple for
which they have strived for many
years. A. meeting of the labor tenn
pie committee an offer for the old
Board of Trade building was consid-
cred. The Federation of Labor can
secure the building free of cost by !