Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-27
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources. 4,

Sources.
Buffalo grain elevators suspended
operations for an indefinite period and
200 INSIDE men" were thrown out OF
employment.
Brewery workers of Toronto to the
number of nearly 1900, and including
drivers, helpers, stablemen, laborers,
bottlers, and cellar men, are on a
strike.
Secretary McEwen, of the Mime
sofa State Federation of Labor, has
issued the call for that body to meet
in annual convention in New Ulm,
June 10.
Brockton Central labor union has
just paid President Emmett T. Walls
a great tribute by re-electing him
president for the fourteenth consecu-
tive time.
M. Patrick Carrick, general secre-
tary-treasurer of the Brotherhood OF
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America, died at Lafayette,
Ind, from erysipelas.
The Bakers and Confectioners' In
ternational Union issued its first char
ter to a local union Of the craft in
Porto Rico last week. The local be-
gins with 70 members.
Between 1000 and 10000 coal min
ers in the eastern portion of Ohio,
subdistrict No. 5, went on strike be-
cause of their failure to reach an
agreement with the operators.
The National Association OF Cloth
iers, at its recent convention in Phil
adelphia, made plans for a national
labor or employment bureau, with
view to enforcing the open shop
principle.
E. ]. Ingersoll, of Herkimer, N. Y,
has issued a challenge to the labor
unions of New York to meet him in
debate, either through the press or
orally, as to the rights Of organized
labor to exist.
The Building Trades Council Of Gin
cinnati at a recent meeting took the
initiatory steps to form and maintain
large financial defense fund, to be
not less than $4,000, and may exceed
that figure within year.
The greatest increase in wages
since the organization Of unions in
Iowa is found in the case of printers,
whose gain is 1921 per cent. The
cigarmakers have reduced their hours
the greatest, 81 .27 per cent.
The Kansas supreme court declared
void the statute which makes 1t I'M
lawful to discharge an employe be-
cause he belongs to labor organiza.
ton, and which provides for the re-
covery Of damages for the discharge.
The Chicago bakers strike has been
settled. The union yielded it's demand
that no work should be performed on
the five legal holidays Of the year and
agreed to the usual amount of holiday
work, with pay for the hours of work
only, instead of the full pay, as de-
msnded.
In consequence Of the action of
large number of the smaller bakeries
in signing the new working schedule,
from 800 to 400 bakers of the 1000
who struck in Boston returned to
their places. About 100 of the small
err concerns now have signed the new
schedule.
Every machine shop of the Santa
Fe railway system from Chicago to
albuquerque, N. M, was closed May
2. A lockout order was issued by the
officials, to head off strike
order of the International Association
of Machinists. 1t was estimated that
10000 men were idle.
The annual report of Labor Com
missioner Mccormack of Indiana deals
with strikes and their causes. OF the
causes he says: Ninety per cent. of
the strikes are due to the fact that
the employer has not been fair, or has
refused to treat with his men.
1t is not usually question of wages,
but of humanity"
Cigarmakers' official journal leads
It's editorial column with these two
Now, above all others,
it is a good time to keep cool under
the collar" THE labor organizations
that are conservative and fair in their
demands will be successful. Those
which make impossible demands will
meet with opposition and final de-
teat."
Frank Morrison fills the RESPONSE
BILE position of secretary to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, the biggest
organization in the world, at salary
If $4,000 year, and John Lennon
acts as treasurer for the sum of 500
/ year. At the last convention Len
,on was offered a higher salary and
refused it.