Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-06-17
NEWS OF THE LABOR WoRLE

Items of Interest Gathered from many
Sources.
Window glass factories aggregating
in capacity 1900 pots have suspended
operations until September, in lndi-
ana.
The call has been issued for the
second annual convention of the Com
mercial Photographers union, to meet
in st. Paul. Tuesday, July 10.
The Chicago Marine Council has
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, James E. Dwyer; vice president,
William E. Balm; recording secretary,
w. Kane; financial secretary, William
Murphy.
The International Printing Press
men and Assistants union holds its
annual convention this month. Martin
P. Higgins of Boston, international
president, will have Larry" Birming-
ham of Cincinnati and Frank Pam
pusch of Denver as opponents.
Thirty-fve hundred union machin-
lists and other employees in machine
shops affiliated with the Chicago Metal
Trades association are on strike. Inc
strike is directed against the assocla-
tons new working schedule OF ffty-
four hours a week and half holiday
on Saturday.
Machinists at the Inland Steel COM
pany plant at Indiana Harbor, md,
made a compromise settlement with
the company. After June l machin-
lists will work ten hours for So day
where they now put in nine hours at
that rate. The new scale will be
$2.SS for nine hours.
The American Smelling and Rein
ing company, through one OF its Of
ficers has announced that within
few days it will divide among its most
valued employees something more than
100000 This is in accordance with
the proflt-sharing plan which the COM
pany worked out some time ago.
The management of the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad and COM
mittee of machinists, the latter repre-
senting the $50 machinists employed
by the system, have reached an agree
ment on the wage rate for this year.
Last years rate, with slight changes
benefitting the men, was agreed upon.
To create strike fund, the Chicago
Metal Trades association levied an
assessment of 100000 on its 100
members. Half the money will be
called in within ten days and will be
Immediately available. The fund is
to be used to defend the association
in the fight which the International
Association of Machinists is forcing.
The Window Glass Workers asso-
citation was notified by ]. l.. Bodine
of the American Window Glass Com
pany that, beginning June l, wages OF
flatteners will be increased % per
cent. The company also announced
that it will not close its plants May
%, but will continue. operating the
machine factories during the summer.
After months of fruitless effort to
reach a satisfactory agreement war
has been declared between the Chica-
go Metal Trades association and the
International Association of Machin-
lists in district No. 8. From present
indications it promises to be a long
and bitter struggle, and is in many
respects the most serious labor trou'
BILE of the year in Chicago
The activity of the Denver Citizens
alliance has resulted in bringing the
two central bodies of labor there to-
gether under one head. Two central
| bodies have been in existence in that
city for three years, one fighting the
other. The recent meeting of the
executive council of the A. F. of l..
paved the way for an amalgamation
which was brought about last Sum-
day.
The financial statement CT the In
ternational Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paper Hangers for
April shows an increase in the cash
balance after all expenditures. The
reconciliation shows receipts from
March rs to April Is were $12,635.16;
expenses for April $7.6035S; death
and disability claims. s2.625; balance
on hand April /, $10S06.06; balance
on hand May l., $13.212.64.
1t is believed that a strike of con
ductors and trainmen on the Roches
ter and Buffalo division of the Buffalo
Rochester & Pittsburg railroad will
soon be called unless concessions
asked by the men are granted. The
exact nature of the difficulty cannot
be learned, but it is known to involve
an increase in wages and shift OF
the working forces of the two divfs
ions that was made few weeks ago
A referendum vote of the members
of the Amalgamated Woodworkers
International union has decided in
favor of a convention this year, and
New York has been selected as the
city in which it will be held. It is
the first convention that the organi
cation has ever held in the East
Thomas l. Kidd, general secretary OF
the organization, will arrange for a
headquarters and hall in which to
hold the convention.
From an. article in an English paper