Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-06-24
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The Philadelphia typewriter girls
have formed a union.
Hold Carriers and Building Laborers
union of the A. F. of l.. has changed
the headquarters to Chicago.
Labor unions Of Georgia are sd
yocating the establishment of bu-
reau of state labor statistics and min
ing.
Free employment bureaus are In
successful operation in thirteen states
in this country. Eight foreign coun-
tries also have the same measures
One hundred and twenty men were
laid off in the Panhandle shops at
Logansport. Ind, in pursuance OF the
policy of retrenchment. The others
will work on five hours day.
Because of the extensive retrench-
ments being made by the great rail-
road systems at Westinghouse AIT
Brake Company plant at Wilmerding
has cut down the working time OF us
1000 employees.
The Western Federation of Miners
appointed committee to visit the
| Cripple Creek district and report the
situation as they find it there. A like
committee probably will be appointed
to visit Telluride.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
has refused to grant a pardon to A.
A. Leber, who is serving eighteen
months Imprisonment for counter
| feiting and illegally using the inter-
national Cigarmakers' union label.
In order to curtail expenses on &C.
count of the depression in trade, four
| of the large steel plants in New Ha-
| ven. Conn, will lay off 20 men on
July 1. There has been little import
ant work in this line there lately.
A most interesting situation in the
labor world has developed in Austria
| liza. where the first real labor parlia-
ment in history may be said to be in
formation. For some time the Labor
| party has held the balance of power.
International officers of the Brother
| hood of Painters. Decorators and Pa
perhangers decided to devote the en-
| tire June issue of the Painters Jour
nal to a memorial to M. P. Carrick
of Pittsburg, the dead general secre-
tary-treasurer.
The coal mines of the Pittsburg dis
| trict that have been idle all winter
| have been ordered to resume opera
| tions. The mines would have been
| working from the beginning of naviga-
| ton on the lakes had the strike on
the lakes not tied up the fleet.
| The reduction of the working
forces of the railroads in this country
is more extensive and radical than
was thought month ago would be
| necessary. Estimates are that not
less than $4,000 employees have been
dropped from the railroad pay rolls.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
| pany has posted an order a Fort
Wayne, Ind, to reduce the working
force or the hours that the present
force works 35 per cent. On the
southwest system LOO shopmen Will
be laid off, about half this number
being at Columbus. o.
A bill making it misdemeanor
punishable by fine of 500 to $500,
or by Imprisonment from three months
to one year, either to use union
label without authority or to coun-
terfeit the label or have in possession
any merchandise marked with coun-
terfeit label, has been made law in
New York.
Ore handlers have refused to accept
wage cut from the Northwestern
railrotd company at Escanaba docks.
The men were paid 50 for day shifts
| and 1925 for night work last season
| and were only offered $1.S5 and 81 for
! this summer. Efforts were made 10
place the new rate in effect at the ST..
Paul dock.
General Secretary Frank Duffy Of
the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners has issued the following cir.
cular to all the locals: On Monday
Sept. 49, the thirteenth biennial con-
vention of the United Brotherhood Of
| Carpenters and Joiners of America
will be opened at West Side Turner
hall. Milwaukee. Wis.
Eight cigar manufacturers of Chi
cago, employing more than 200 union
men, closed their doors, locking out
their employees. Others, it is said
will follow the example set next week
as the manufacturers claim they are
unable to lay the bill of prices put
In effect by the cigarmakers' union
about four weeks ago.
The executive committee of the