Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.

NEWS OF THE IABOf WOnID'
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Cigarmakers of Boston have started
a cooperative cigar factory.
The United Garment Workers In
ternational union has increased in IL
years from 5000 to $4,000.
The International AmalgamateS
Sheet Metal Workers Association will
hold it's annual convention at Buffalo
in June.
Louisville, KY, Employers associa-
ton declared for the open shop and
also for the establishment of trade
schools.
An international labor congress at
st. Louis during the Worlds fair has
beeu proposed by the central body at
Milwaukee.
Judge Kavanagh in an injunction
against the Chicago solar plate work
ers, especially states that picketing
is permissible.
Boot and shoe workers union spent
S4O4,82o last year. About equal sums
were spent for sick benefits, strikes
and advertising the union label.
It is probable that the biennial con-
veRtion of the brotherhood of loco
motive engineers will be held at
Cleveland instead of Los Angeles.
AS a result of the meeting of the
miners and operators of Beaver Val.
ley. Pa, the miners in the vicinity re-
turned to work pending the considera-
ton of the new scale.
The miners of Christian County
Coal company's mine at Taylorville,
ILL.,, who have been on strike since
the strike for that district was agreed
upon, returned to work.
Two hundred molders and pattern
makers of the Fore River Shipbuild-
ing and Engine company, at Quincy,
Mass, joined the strikers, making a
total of 5000 men now idle.
The dissatisfaction of the sheet and
tin-plate workers over the reduction
of IS per cent seems to be increasing.
The Griffith plant at Waynesburg, Pa,
has closed. Others will follow
The United States Commissioner Of
Education says school teachers aver
age per month $40 for men and $40
for women. Twenty-eight per cent Of
the teachers of the country are men.
At Lawrence. Mass, the Arlington
cotton and worsted mills will curtail
prodsction, operating but four days a
week, because of lack of orders. Fiji
teen hundred operatives are affected.
The Indiana block coal miners, Dis
trict No. s, have voted to reject the
proposition of the operators for two
years contract under last years con-
ditions, with per cent reduction in
wages.
Bakers joint executive board has
received word from San Francisco
that many bakers there are unem-
ployed and warns fellow workers Of
New England against going to Cali
fornia.
The Amalgamated Association of
Sheet Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
Theodore Shaffer's union, has accept
ed a wage reduction of is per cent.
The cut is operative until the last
day of June of this year.
On June next the Order of Rail-
way Photographers will celebrate its
eighteenth anniversary, having been
organized at Cedar Rapids in 1886.
Last month 1910 new members were
added to the orders rolls.
Brush Makers International union
has requested organized labor to as
sist that union in having the authori-
ties revoke their determination to in
troduce the manufacture of brooms
into the Minnesota state prison.
From a toiler in the machine shops
of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
to the presidency of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railway. which
is one of the Burlington's chief COM
petitors, is the career of B. l.. Win
chell.
An American steam thrashing ma
;iiine has been taken into Damascus,
which Is said to be the Oldest city in
the world. On it's way to Damascus
the heavy machine broke every bridge
and attracted the attention Of the en-
tire country.
A strong fight against unionism is
now being made by the Draper Ma
chine company of Hopedale, Mass.
Employees are being compelled to sign
an agreement that they will not join