Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-11-18
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

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Sources.
Steps are being taken to establish
at Denver, Colo, home for aged acd
INDECENT carpenters.
Hotel clerks in Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia are forming unions for their
benefit and advancement.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Union of Bill Posters and
Billers occurs in Pittsburg, beginning
Dec. 3.
The Headquarters of the European
Union of Transport Workers has been
removed from London to Hamburg.
M. Jochade of Hamburg succeeds Ben
Tillett as secretary.
Boston asbestos workers union has
Joined the international union OF Heat,
Frost and General Asbestos Workers
of America, which has just been given
an international charter by the A. F..
of L.
The carpenters, machinists and the
metal polishers, buffers, platers and
brass workers are other international
unions which have inaugurated new
and vigorous New England organizing
campaigns.
Bricklayers' and Masons' Interna-
tional union convention will be held
at San Francisco Jan. next. 1t is
estimated that 600 delegates from all
sections of the United States and Can
ada will attend the sessions.
Hutchinson, Murphy & Co., one OF
the largest Boston firms, signed the
decorative glass workers agreement
Yesterday, and their men return to
work tomorrow The signature makes
the fourth secured by the union.
A. w. Wheeler of Lynn, internation-
al vice-president of the Grocery and
Provision Clerks union. opened his
office in Boston this week, and will de-
vote his entire time to organizing work
in New England for his international.
The National Manufacturers associ-
alton will hold it's annual convention
in New York city the last week In
November. Organized labor will watch
the meeting for the new scheme OF d.
M. Parry for doing away with labor
unions.
Owing to the sharp demand for pig
iron which has recently sprung up
preparations are being made to start
I'D number of furnaces in Cleveland
and in the Mahoning and Shenango
valleys that have been idle for many
months.
The membership Of the Order OF
Railroad Photographers increased 542
in the month of August and III in
September. Secretary Quick of the or
ganization says an increase OF 1,254
members in a presidential year sis
not so bad"
Two hundred engineers, represent
ing all the brotherhoods of the New
York Central system, met at SYRIA
cuse and decided to cooperate with
the New York Central management
in the establishment of a pension sys-
tenn for old engineers.
All of the mills in Danielson, Wau-
kegan, Mooseup, Putnam, Grosvenor-
dale, Jewett City, Occune and Bal
tic have started up on full time,
giving employment to 10000 operat-
ives. Some of these mills have been
on short time for six months.
Canadian labor papers continue to
complain that steamship agencies, rail-
ways and land sharks are flooding the
country with foreign labor, that there
are more men than jobs, and that
wages are steadily declining. De-
mands are made that the plutes cease
their unfair methods.
The officers and members of the Bos
ton lodges of machinists are still hope
full that a strong women's auxiliary
will be formed in that city. The meet
ipgs held thus far during the past
seven or eight months have been far
from encouraging, but renewed and
vigorous effort is to be Immediately
made, the women already becoming
more enthusiastic, and the prospects
of strong organization at last appears
to be reasonably good.
Apparently a new field of labor has
Just been opened for girls in the manu-
facture of cut nails. After seeking
vainly to secure the services of enough
boys to operate its nail machines, the
Chicago Steel Manufacturing company
Of New Castle, Ind, has filled the