Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-04-15
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

SOuTCCSs
The miners of the central Pcnnsyl'
vania coal field will accept reduc'
ton in wages.
The Amalgamated Woodworkers In
ternational union will hold a general
convention about June 20.
The Building Trades Council at
Danvllle, ILL.,, has been reorganized
and granted a charter by the National
Building Trades Council.
Thirty-three shoe manufacturers OF
Lynn, Mass, nave locked out 500 turn
workmen, and unless a settlement Is
reached 5000 men will soon be idle.
1.-The Illinois coal miners of the north
ern field have expressed formally
their objections to the reduction in the
wage scale, and the matter is far from
ratification.
The international Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers., by majority OF
4,2O5 against, voted down PROPOSE
ton to join the Structural Building
Trades Alliance.
>: The Cigarmakers' international
union has discovered the headquarters
in Pennsylvania of gang of counter
feiters who have been printing and
circulating bogus labels of the organ
izations.
On December 81 the 655 trade
unions in Great Britain had a men,
.bership of 1,604,S12, and funds
amounting to a5,O16,40S. The 'income
for the year was 92,441.427, and the
expenditure E2,058,63O
eve don't owe dollar to any one
and we have $4,000 in our treasury,
says the editor of the stone cutters
official magazine. 1--WE have paid 81
700 in death benefits in the last month
and claims of every character are
paid by return mall
Carpenters unions in Baltimore
have sent out warning to all sister
locals that there is no building boom
on there and that it will be several
months before the actual work OF re-
building the city will begin. Union
men are advised to stay away from
Baltimore at this time.
The National Civic Federation is
sending cut circular letters to all ma
tional unions asking for copies OF the
form of Joint trade agreements made
in their respective crafts. 1t is the
intention of the federation to prepare
a digest of the various forms of agree
ments in force, have them printed in
book form and circulated among esl-
ployers and unions.
AT the convention of the Women's
Trade Union League of America 1t
was decided to put an organizer in
the field to organize unions of women
wherever possible. A woman of ex-
perience will be selected and she will
act as an adviser wherever strikes of
women may take place.
John Mitchell, national president of
the United Mineworkers of America,
will spend greater portion OF the
summer in Europe studying labor con-
ditiofs there. He will sail May s..
May 23 he will attend the internation-
al meeting of miners at Paris and
lateral meeting of miners at Berlin.
A circular has lately been issued to
a garment workers union. telling the
danger that customers run by buying
clothes made in sweatshops. The
story is told of Sir Robert PeePs
daughter who died of typhoid fever,
contracted by. wearing cloak that
had been made in an infected home.
The physicians of the Hilltops dis
trict of Pittsburg. Pa, are reported to
have taken the initiative in the forma-
ton. of Physicians Protective asso-
citation, the doctors union. Their ex-
ample has since been followed by the
medical men of the South Side Of the
Smoky City.
Labor union forces are rejoicing
over the fact they may yet use the
boycott in Iowa. The house adopted
the report of the committee for indefi-
mite postponement of the measure
providing fine and Imprisonment for
all persons conspiring to injure the
business of another by establishing
the boycott.
There are 1000 members in the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Union of Chicago. Last year eighteen
of them were killed and lis injured.