Kansas agitator., 1904-07-29
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.

NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The headquarters of the American
Labor Union have been removed from
Butte, Mont, to Chicago.
A state federation of labor was
formed at Augusta, Maine, through a
delegate convention last week.
Fifty labor unions have been formed
In Porto Rico since the island became
a possession of the United States.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor will deliver the
Labor day address at Utica, N. Y, this
year.
Rival unions of window glass work
ers are expected to amalgamate at
meeting planned to be held in Cleve-
land this month.
Steel and copper die cutters met in
New York, July 4, formed union
and made application for a charter to
the American Federation of Labor.
The supreme court of West Virginia
has issued an injunction against the
United Mine Workers of America, for
bidding them from organizing the mine
workers of that state.
j. E. Bruner of Cincinnati, vice
president of the International Union
of Steam Engineers, has been selected
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of President Patrick Mcmahon.
The twenty-sixth annual convention
Of the New Jersey State Federation of
Labor has been called to meet in the
assembly chamber, in the capitol build
ing at Trenton, Monday, Aug. Is.
The United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca have chartered their first union in
Canada. At recent meeting OF the
miners in Fernie, B. c., PA men form
ed union and applied for charter.
Phillip Murphy, member of the
Chicago Beef Butchers union, won the
worlds championship in beef killing
and dressing contest held at Spring
field July 4. He killed and dressed
the animal ready for market in four
minutes and sixteen seconds.
An arrangement has been made
under which such employees Of the
United States navy yards as can be re-
lieved of work on Saturday afternoons
during July, August and September
will be given half-holidays, and those
who cannot be spared will be given
the half-holidays as the work in hand
permits.
The new barber law adopted by
the legislature of Maryland last win
ter and which became effective July 1,
is very stringent Besides requiring
that all BARRIERS must pass an exami-
nation before a state board, number
of rules must be observed, the en-
forcement of which is made the duty
Of inspectors.
Two new labor publications have
made their appearance. The first Is
the Journal of the International Hod
Carriers and Building Laborers' Union
and is published in Chicago under the
direction of H. A. Stemburgh, the Sec
retary, as editor. The other is the
Union Herald, and is published in
Washington, D. c.
The Socialist labor party has placed
a ticket in the field for the coming
presidential election. Charles H. Cor
rigan, a member Of the Syracuse, N.
Y, Typographical union, has been
named for president of the United
States, and William w. Cox, a union
coal miner at Collinsville, ILL.,, is the
vice presidential candidate.
The coal operators in the Kanawha
wv. Va.,) coal fields have entered a
combination known as the Kanawha
Coal association, to fight the demands
made by the United Mineworkers. AL
ready sixty-seven have signed the
agreement, and about thirty others are
expected to join within the next two
or three days.
Secretary Edward Nockels of the
Chicago Federation of Labor expects
to send a trainload of at least 600 and
probably 700 delegates to the Victor,
Col, meeting in August. He expects
the country at large to double that
and that 1000 delegates from
union central bodies will be in the
great meeting which investigates the |
Colorado troubles.
The Cigarmakers' International |
union, which recently celebrated its
fortieth anniversary, is agitating the
question of approximation or old
age pension for its members. The
union has already the most extended
chain of benefits Of any labor organi-
zation in the country, but its leaders
believe the system cannot be COM
plete without the old age pension fea-
ture.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation Of Miners, was
released from custody by Sheriff Bell