Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-03-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
An international labor congress at
st. Louis during the worlds fair has
been proposed by the central body at
Milwaukee.
Several postal clerks unions have
been chartered by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and now 1t Is pro-
posed to form a national union or the
calling.
Can workers at the haywood Qll)
plant of the American Can company
charge that the company has sought
to induce the local merchants not
to give them credit.
All the Lehigh Valley coal collieries
in the Shamokin district which have
been idle since Oct. l, have resumed
operation. Two thousand men and
boys were given employment.
Frau Krupp observed the birthday
of her late husband by giving $25
each to 1000 workmen who had been
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company and by donating $125,OO0 to
the workmen's hospital.
Trouble between the members of
the Chicago Brass Manufacturers as
sociation and their union employees is
expected as the result of their adop-
ton by the former of a declaration
of principles antagonistic to labor or
CARNATIONS.
The allied printing trades of Phila-
delphia have begun an active cam
paign for the use of the label in that
city, and are publishing paper called
the Trades Union News. Shelly Smith,
an old-time member of the printers
union. is editor.
The bakers ten-hour law of New
York, which prohibits bakers from
working more than ten hours a day,
or sixty hours week, has been car
ried from court to court, and been
sustained by the New York State
Court of Appeals.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has asked all
affiliated international unions to insist
that local unions under their jurisdic-
ton in Canada at once attach them
selves to the Trades and Labor Con-
gress Of Canada.
While the Baltimore fire brought
financial loss to many business men
and in several cases forced them into
l. hoC noncnd hI1i1AinU
boom that is draining workmen from
all cities in the United States. 1t is
estimated that it will require 10000
men three years to rebuild the burnt
district.
The officers of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, I'M
der date of Feb. II, sent out circular
letters to each of it's affiliated locals in
the United States. recommending that
a referendum vote be taken on the
question of withdrawing from the
American Federation of Labor, and
proceeding as an independent organi-
cation in the future.
Labor unions throughout Texas
have started a movement in opposi-
ton to the state penitentiary board
leasing convicts to coal operators to
work in the mines. Members of the
board claim the right to lease the con-
victs in this way, and say that the
$1,000 received as wages monthly
from them materially helps in reduc-
ing the taxes of the state.
Developments indicate that the har.
monious relations between the coal
miners and operators in the bitumi
nous coal fields will continue, and that |
strike will be averted. That means
that the operators will not insist on
the proposed wage reduction, for the |
miners are firm in their stand that |
they will not accept reduction until, |
as Secretary Ryan expresses it, they |
are licked"
Out of every 200 factory workmen |
in Moscow. Russia, there are only
three who cannot sign their own
names; while out of every 200 land
owners and capitalists, there are |
seven who cannot sign their names.
OF the entire population as out of |
every 100 people in Moscow cannot
either read or write. These figures
are given by the latest census report
issued by the Moscow city govern
ment.
The United. States Senate has pass
ed the bill making it misdemeanor
punishable by six months imprison-
ment or fine of $500, or both, to de-
tain seamen's clothing. The bill
amends the MCGUIRE act passed In