Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-02
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

NEWS Of he IA6Oh WOnIOs
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
AS late as 1917 ten delegates OF the
calico printers of Boston were put in
Jail for meeting to consider the ques-
ton of wages.
The paper makers strike at
Neenah, Wis, which had been on for
eleven weeks, was declared off. The
men will return to work and labor
Saturday nights.
In 1912 the central committee OF
the Scottish weavers went to prison
for directing strike to secure wages
fixed by justice Of the peace and re-
fused by the employers.
Mcnopolies Of whatever kind are
encroachments upon the interests OF
those who depend upon manual labor
for upport.-Florence Elliott, In the
Railway Car Mems Journal.
P. M. Draper, secretary OF the
Trades and Labor congress of Can
ada, has issued the official call for the
twentieth annual convention Of that
federation. The convention will be
held in Montreal, beginning Sept. 90.
A novel feature promised for this
years Labor day parades in some
Texas cities will be the participation
OF the Farmers union. which has been
chartered by the American Federation
of Labor.
Hereafter the International Broth
erbood Of Stationary Firemen will
hold conventions only once in two
years, instead of annually. A resolu-
ton was agreed to making the eight
hour day the watchword of the organ
ization.
The employees of the j. & P. Coats
Thread Company of Pawtucket, R. l.,
have been notified that the mills will
be shut down from Aug. 10 to Sept. 1.
The plant has been running on short
time for several weeks. 1t employs
1920 hands.
The Mine Cancellation Board ad-
journed after a vain effort to secure
the check weighmen dispute and avert
the threatened strike of the 10000
mine workers in the Wilkesbarre re-
gion at the collieries where the check
weighmens award has not been en-
forced.
Twelve hundred garment makers,
practically all coatmakers, struck at
Boston because Of the refusal of the
clothing manufacturers to sign an
agreement renewing the one made
it'll the union year ago. The con-
tractors claim that it is illegal, as it
insists on the closed shop.
Resolutions of amalgamation were
adopted almost unanimously at
meeting in Cooper Union, New York.
of members of the heretofore warning
Amalgamated Society of Painters and
Decorators and the Brotherhood Of
Painters. This action brings ten thou
sand painters in one organization.
The London Society Of Compositors,
with 11,270 members, has a reserve
fund of $361,OOO. Nearly $4,000 was
paid to the unemployed last year.
The society maintains $50 superan.
ruated members, who received for the
year $4,000 from the general treas.
ury. The funeral benefits for the
twelve months totaled $11,74O.
In the last year the International
Longshoremen have organized forty
nine new locals along the American
rivers, eleven along the Atlantic
coast, twelve along the Pacific coast,
fifteen along the Gulf of Mexico
twelve along the lakes and ocean Of
the Dominion Of Canada, four along
the Long island sound, three in our
new possessions in the Hawaiian
islands, making total Of lis new To-
Gals since the last convention.
Reports show that the work Of or
ganizing laborers in Porto Rico is
progressing. Santiago Igleias, organ
izer for the American Federation of
Labor, reports: 1.-THE organized Ia
Dor movement on the island has had
an unprecedented growth within the
past month. More than twenty-five
local unions of different trades have
been organized under the auspices of
the A., F, of L., and more than 1,500
members have become affiliated with
it,"
1t is said reports show that the ref
erendum vote of the bricklayers and
stone masons is again against affilia-
ton with the American Federation Of
Labor. The question was submitted
to the membership of the 1872 affiliated
local unions last month, and complete
returns have not been made, but the
indications are against the PROPOSE
ton. The local union here voted in
favor of the proposition, and also in
favor of afiliating with the recently
formed Structural Trades alliance
Two hundred coopers employed at
the st. Joseph packing houses re-
turned to work with the understand