Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-16
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Sources.
The milling industry in the United
States is the third largest in the coun'
try.
At Canonsburg, Pa, the Standard
Tinplate company, employing 3,ooo
men, has resumed operations.
Building operations, which had been
tied up for fifteen weeks by lock
out of the carpenters at Sharon, Pa.'
have been resumed.
The 500 miners at the Barnum COL
liery of the Pennsylvania Coal COM
pany at Pittston, who have been out
on strike for two weeks, returned 10
work.
The big building strike at Hartford,
Conn.,, which started in a disagree
ment over 70 cents, has been ended
by a complete surrender by the con-
tractors.
The grand lodge of the International
association of machinists has levied an
assessment of 81 on journeymen and
so cents on apprentices for the santa
re SITlkeTS.
Engineers and switchmen operating
the dummy engines at the Illinois
Steel Company's plant at Joliet, Ill.,
struck because the management cut
off the spell hands.
The Cleveland Civic Federation at
tempted to settle the cloakmakers
strike by arbitration, but the manu-
facturers declined to hold a CONFER
ence on the ground that so far as they
were concerned there was nothing to
arbitrate.
The executive board of the United
Mine Workers of America voted $5OO
to the support of the packing house
strikers. Secretary Treasurer wilson
said: I'VE shalN not make further
contributions at present, as thousands
of our own men are on strike
At the meeting of the National Car
ment Workers association President
LANCER said that in the last year the
organization had had the most stub
bornly contested strikes since 1895.
These contests have only served to
emphasize the strength of the union,
he declared.
After a long conference between
Vice President Bryan of the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit company and
committee of the New York elevated
railroad employees it was announced
that an agreement satisfactory to both
sides had been reached and that there
will be no strike.
Notices were posted in the Home
stead plant of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany at Pittsburg announcing that the
3S-inch, 119-inch and converting mills
would go on double turn. This leaves
only the S4inch mill idle in the entire
plant. The resumption gives $50 addi-
tional men employment
The Charleroi plant of the Macbeth
Evans Glass Company, which recently
severed connections with the Amer
lean Flint Glassworkers' association,
partially resumed operations on a
non-union basis. About sixteen old
skilled employees reported for duty.
The plant employs 300 hands.
BY referendum vote the miners OF
the Crooksville district have rejected
the proposition of the operators and
the strike will continue. The men
have been out over five months. Over
1000 miners are involved. Officials of
the Miners union were disappointed
when the result was announced.
idle as the result of strikes and lock-
outs affecting four prominent indus
tries. Probably as many more have
been thrown out of employment dur
ing the last month by the wave of in
dustrial discord and depression which
seems to be sweeping across the coun-
try.
Clarion furnace No. of the United
States Steel corporation has been or
dered in blast and notices to resume
in mills Nos. s and have been posted
at the w. Dewees-Wood plant of the
American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate
comrany at McKeesport. The re-
sumrtionsN will give employment to
over 1900 men.
Two strikes, affecting 1000 men,
we're declared by the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers against the plants Of the Re-
publican Iron and Steel Company at
and the Monongahela Steel
and Iron Company near McKeesport.
The trouble is not over wages, but
over recognition of the union. Super
Pendleton said the company
would pay the scale, but would not
sign it.
Indignation in labor circles is gen.
orally and emphatically expressed at a
certain action of the Brotherhood of
the Union at its state convention in