Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

The laundry workers at DanVllle'
Ill.,, have organized a strong union
and the carpenters have secured
satisfactory new working agreement.
Every member of Boston Electrical
Workers union, No. 103, is to be lined
81 if any nonunion tobacco. cigar or
cigarettes are found in his possession.
1t was given out from an official
source that the differences between
the Delaware and Hudson Company
and its railroad employees were ami
cably adjusted at a conference held
in Albany.
Rioting, in which one man was
fatally shot, another stabbed, hve
negroes dubbed and badly beaten,
and one policeman injured, marked
Sunday, July II in the Chicago stock
yards strike.
A special report of the census bu-
reau shows that 1,750,75S children In
the United States are compelled TO
work for their living They form
more than 6 per cent of the total
number of workers, and the boys out
number the girls almost three to one,
the figures being 1,364,411 boys and
1856, 767 girls.
With display of fireworks surpass-
ing that on the Fourth of July the
Homestead works started operation in
full, with the employees working dou-
BILE time. The plant has been oper-
ating only about half time for the
past year. BY the starting OF the mill
at it's full capacity 1000 men will have
steady employment.
About 100 delegates, representing
a membership of 10000, were present
at the opening of the fifth biennial
convention of the Piano and Organ
Workers International union at Bos-
ton, July IL. International President
Frank Helle of Chicago expressed
himself in favor of the union operat-
ing a piano and organ factory.
All hope of an early settlement OF
the Chicago stock yards strike was
abandoned after an abortive CONFER
ence between the packers and repre-
sentatives of the strikers. Both sides
declare that the fight must be to a
finish. Nineteen unions out o. TWEEN
ty-two in the Packing Trades council
voted in favor of sympathetic strike.
Unskilled workers who were organ
lied secured the nine-hour day and
twenty cents an hour minimum wage
scale at Marseilles, ILL.,, without a
strike. and new unions of electrical
workers, stationery fremen, typo
graphical union and Women's Union
Label League have been formed. All
unions are urging their members to
petronize the union labels.
James F. Morris, secretary Of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor,
has sent out an appeal to all labor
unions in the state urging them to
affiliate with the state branch. The
appeal points to the good work the
state branch has done in securing leg
islation against convict labor. The
report of Secretary Morris shows the
balance in the treasury of the state
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Union hours and wages prevail at
Decatur, ILL.,, where there is great
demand for the union label and
where the unions prevented all at
tempts to lower the wages from the
scales secured the previous year.
Butchers and meat cutters recently
formed strong union and reports
state that nonunion workers are very
scarce in the city and their effect is
not felt by the organized workers.
A Jury has awarded the Centre Star
Mining Company of Rossland, British
Columbia, a verdict for $12,5OJ dam
ages against the Western Federation
of Miners, the Rossland Miners union
and their officers for maliciously con-
spring to modest and injure the plain
tiff and other Rossland mine owners
during the strike last year. If the YER
dict stands, the right to strike in
British Columbia is practically for
hidden.
The committees of the Alton engi-
neers and firemen concluded their
conference with the officials. and the
new schedule of wage regulations
was signed by both General Manager
c.. A. Goodnow and the chairmen Of
the committees. Thee principal
change in pay goes to the firemen.
who receive an average increase of
$40 per month, and are also exempt
from cleaning the exterior of engines.
the work of cleaning being limited
to the interior of cab.
The Illinois State Federation Of La
Dor is growing rapidly and the quar-
terly report of Secretary Treasurer