Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
New York city bricklayers receive
and painters so cents.
The 1904 convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen will
meet in Buffalo in September.
The cotton mills of the Scott Man.
ufacturing company have shut down.
throwing 1,640 employees out of en-
ployment.
President Michael Donnelly Of the
butchers addressed strikers in South
st. Joseph, declaring they were GER
tain to win Pickets were withdrawn.
The executive board, district No. l.,
united mineworkers, met at Scranton,
Pa, to consider anthracite grievances
and it seems assured there will be no
strike.
All Lincoln, Neb., street railway
employees may strike unless an order
which compels the motormen to keep
check on conductors receipts is
rescinded.
Seven hundred members of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers at the Leba-
non plant of the American Iron and
Steel company are on strike, charg-
ing discrimination against union.
Members of the Meat Drivers union
of East st. Louis stopped work in
sympathy with the butchers and meat
cutters. Managers say the butchers
of East st. Louis have consented to
go to the packing houses for their
supplies.
Vice President T. L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers left Indianapo-
lis for Pennsylvania to investigate the
controversy between the miners and
operators of the Lackawanna and Wy
oming district over the payment of
check weighmen.
There will be no miners strike in
district No. /, according to President
Nichols, until the unions have inves-
| tigated the conditions in the mines
now baking on the check weighmens
and docking bosses wages. The next
meeting likely will be held within ten
days.
Arrangements practically have been
| completed for the consolidation Of the
| three large central labor organiza-
tons in the vicinity of Pittsburg, the
United Labor league, Iron City coun-
ell and the Building Trades Council,
the three composing about 10000
men.
1.-THE lockout called by the Building
Trades Employers association which
went into effect Aug 5 involves $4,000
men and means a fight to a finish in
New York city between capital and
the building trades unions" said Phil
| ip Winsheimer, president of the Build
| ing Trades Alliance.
War between the National Found
ers' association and the Iron holders
union is believed imminent because
the association has declared cut in
wages of 20 cents day. The union
declares the action has followed an
arbitrary campaign waged by the as
sociation in regard to agreements.
The Bloomington Qll) street car
mems union decided to call off the
strike on the Bloomington and Nor
NAL Railway Electric and Heating
company, which has been in progress
since Jan. l, having lost the fight for
an advance in wages, recognition OF
| the union, and easiest runs for the
older men.
In order to help out some employ
ers the members of the Housesmiths
! and Ornamental Iron Workers union
of Boston voted to reduce wages to
| AZ cents an hour. Some employers
have been paying As cents and others
AZ. and the union thought it unfair to
place the more generous ones at a
| disadvantage.
General President Dan Mahon of
the Amalgamated Association OF
street and Electric Railroad Employees