Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-11-04
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Los Angeles, Cal, is to build $75,'
900 labor temple.
The eight-hour law of the state OF
Washington has been declared con-
stitutional by the courts OF that state.
The Boston Central Labor Union is
actively engaged in trying to stamp
out the padrone system in 1.-The Hub"
The headquarters of the Federated
Metal Trades Association have been
removed from Washington to Pitts
burg.
Stationary engineers are said to
have declared their intention to with
draw from the American Federation
Of Labor if the Brewery Workers
union is given jurisdiction over engi-
neers in breweries.
At New Haven, Conn, eight union
teamsters who were convicted last
spring on the charge of conspiracy in
bringing about teamsters' strike
there, were sentenced to three months
each in the county jail.
Judge Halsey in the Circuit Court
of Milwaukee declared the eight-hour
law as applied to city contracts is ille-
gal. Judge Halsey DEGREES that the
city charter provides for contracts be-
ing let to the lowest bidder.
Pacific coast labor unions are plan
ming to make fight in Congress for
legislation to protect American sea-
men from the unimpeded importation
of Chinese crews for service on YES
sells flying the American flag.
Rumors are afloat in the East that
Theodore Shaffer, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, is slated for
the position of head of the Bureau OF
Labor, to succeed Carroll d. Wright.
Levi Smith was elected agent OF
the Painters union local No. 1O4, of
Lake Geneva, Wis. The trade unions
of Geneva are increasing and the non
union workers disappearing. Wages
have been steadily increased during
the year.
The Scranton, Pa, Central Labor
Union has taken the initiative in that
state in movement to place union
made goods more prominently on the
market and make this class of wares
appear more favorably before organ
lied workers and their friends.
Judge Anderson, of the Federal
court. made the Injunction against the
strikers at the McBeth-Adams glass
factory, at Elwood, Ind, permanent.
BY the articles of this injunction the
strikers will be prohibited from pick
citing the company's plant or using
threats to prevent new men taking the
places Of strikers.
The strikes of dock workers at Mar.
settles, France, which practically end
ed some days ago, have now been off,
cially closed by the decision OF the
lockers union to resume work, though
a few coal beavers are still standing
out. 1t is estimated that the forty
days of idleness consequent upon this
strike cost the city $16,0O0000.
Organizer Emmett Flood Of the
American Federation of Labor reports
strong trade union growth and SEN
timent in Rockford, Ill. There are
many trades to be organized, but the
street railway employees and the prod
uce peddlers have formed unions. The
organized workers have good working
conditions and fair wages, but the non
union men are paid as low as $1.35
per day of ten hours.
Unskilled union laborers of Logans-
port, Ind, are paid from $1.75 to $2.25
per day of nine hours, while non-union
men get from 81 to $1.35 per day of
ten to twelve hours. New unions of
teamsters, bakers, quarrymen and port
tiers have been formed and the union
label receives an increased demand. In
spite of the efforts of local branch
of the Citizens Alliance no wages of
union men have been reduced.
A constantly increasing desire to
make their surroundings more agree
able to the workers is shown by the
government and public of Germany.
Some credit for the state of affairs
must be due to the progressive spirit
shown by the German organizations
of labor, including their political &C.
tivity. These thoughts are inspired
by letter from it's Berlin correspon-
dent, recently printed in the London
Times.
The steel workers employed in the
rail and sheet departments of the ILL
nois Steel Companys plant at South
Chicago have been notified that when
the present agreement expires, Jan. 1,
1905, it will not be renewed. This
means that the same reduction in
wages and frightening of the hours
will prevail in South Chicago as in
Joliet. Oficials of the steel company
say they believe the men will accept