Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-19

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the confidence and support of the
public they, too, must live up to their
professions.-The Tobacco Worker.
The Stationary Firemen's Union of
Chicago will erect a monument in
memory of its dead and Labor day
has been chosen as the most fitting
day on which to dedicate the granite
shaft. The union has purchased
burial lot for its dead, 400 feet in Oak
Ridge cemetery and smaller plot in
Mt. Carmel.
A recently enacted state law In
New York requiring journeymen
horseshoers to be registered has been
declared unconstitutional by the ap.
pellate division of the Supreme Court.
Justice Hatch, writing the unanimous
opinion of the court, said he failed to
see how the regulation of shoeing
horses has any tendency to promote
the health, comfort. safety and well
fare of society.
All the mills but two closed by the
paper strike begun nine weeks ago
have resumed operations in part. The
Howard mill at Menasha is the only
one. however, where union men will
return, the others being manned with
imported non-union help. Union men
of the Fox river valley are still de-
termined and declare the non-union
men are not capable of turning out a
profitable product.
1t is said that if the members Of the
unions who are held responsible for
the strike in the New York subway
do not adjust matters promptly gen.
eral lockout may be ordered by the
Building Trades Employers associa-
ton, to be followed by an attempt to
establish an open shop. If general
lockout is ordered between $4,000 and
10000 men in greater New York will
be affected.
Frank Buchanan of Chicago, presi-
dent of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, announced that he would retire in
September, at the convention of the
international union in Toronto, Onta-
rio. 81 intend to see that good man,
strong in his convictions but conser-
vative in action, and above all honest,
gets the presidency" he said. 81 will
run again myself unless such a man is
proposed"
Although the report has been cir
culated that the temporary closing of
the plants of the International Harves-
|, tor cio of 1nacf a
tial permanent shut down or removal,
C. S. Funk, general manager of the
company, declares that the works will
be closed for two weeks only in order
that a complete inventory of the stock
may be made and improvements in
stalled. The company in all its plants
employs over $4,000 men.
The Cripple Creek district is again
being ruled by civil authorities, al
though the order suspending martial
law, is not met with great favor, as
many fear that violence of most ag-
gravated form will quickly follow. In
fact when the order was being pre-
pared at the capitol meeting of citi-
zens to protest against any change
was in session, and was abruptly ad-
journed when it was learned that it
was too late for them to do anything.
Twenty-four negroes and one white
man are at work on the bricklaying
for the government on the war col
lege at the Washington barracks
From present indications this part Of
the work will be finished exclusively
by negro labor Two weeks ago TWEEN
ty-eight bricklayers struck and
stopped work because George Taylor,
negro, was taken on the work. The
union has practically given up the
struggle in this particular case, and
the strike is broken.
]. w. Johnson, international secre-
tary-treasurer of the Bridge Workers
Union, reports that the recent vote
for affiliation with the proposed
Structural Building Trades Alliance
was 6,1S5, of which 1927 were in IA
vor of the affiliation and 2,60S against
He announces that the final vote will
show the affiliation carried by vote
of four to one, because many local
unions took no action on this vital
question, and as their failure to con-
slider the same records their vote in
the affirmative, the official vote will be
announced later"
Patrick McCarvel, one of the men
who were deported over the Kansas
line by the military early in June, re-
turned to Victor, where he owns prop
erty, including large hall and bust
ness block valued at $4,000. When
McCarvel stepped from the train he
was taken in charge by Major H. A.
Naylor, acting city marshal. McCar-
vel was allowed to attend to some
business affairs, when he was placed
on board the first outgoing train, with
a warning that in future police pro-
lection would not be afforded him
should he again return. McCarvel
originally was deported for openly ex-
pressing sympathy with the miners
union and denouncing acts of Gov.
Peabody and his military subordi-
mates.
The forthcoming report Of the
United States geological survey will
show that the United States exceeded