Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
President Samuel Gompers OF the
a. F. of l.. will be Labor day orator
in Utica, N. Y, this year.
James yGillen of Lowell has been
elected vice president of the Anal
gamated leather workers union.
The bricklayers have one of the
strongest and wealthiest unions in
the country, numbering $4,000, with
621 locals.
Glass bottle blowers convention at
Buffalo last week appointed a scale
committee to arrange new agree
ment with the bosses.
Shoe workers in Mexico work from
liz to IL hours day, receiving from
Is cents to 81 day, American
money. They are not organized, but
will be in the near future.
The supreme court of West Vir-
ginia has issued an injunction against
the United mine workers of Amer
lea, forbidding them from organizing
the mine workers of that state.
w. b. Wilson, national secretary
treasurer of the United Mine Work
ers. is to be proposed for the demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
18th Penn district. Wilson resides at
Blossburg.
George H. Gosline of Worcester is
the general secretary of the new ma
tional union of die makers, formed
at New York July 4, and which has
applied to the A. F. of l.. for an in
ternational charter.
Chicago will have no Labor day pa
rade this year. The central body de-
cided to hold a picnic instead. Last
year $4,000 paraded, forming the larg-
est procession of organized workers
in the worlds history.
The University of Wisconsin has es-
mer months. The students will be
given a series of lectures on trade
unionism, the union label, the open
shop, the boycott, and kindred topics.
Six hundred and fifty-six Boston
employers, representing forty-eight
different industries and having on
their pay roll thousands of employees.
have perfected an organization for
"self protection" in connection with
organized labor.
Thomas Duffy of East Liverpool,
O., was reelected president of the
NationA Brotherhood Of Operative
Potters at the Trenton convention.
Duffy is the youngest national presi-
dent of a labor union in the world.
He is rs years old.
The Journeyman Tailors' National
union was formed at a convention held
in Philadelphia in August, 1888. Pre-
yious to that time several attempts
were made to unite the separate local
unions of tailors throughout the coun-
try, but without success.
The two factions of window glass
workers which have been holding ses-
sions in Cleveland formally agreed
upon amalgamation and met as one
body. The new organization will be
known as the Amalgamated Window
Glass Workers of America.
The appointment is announced OF
]. G. Skemp of San Francisco, third
vice president of the Brotherhood OF
Painters and Decorators OF America,
as secretary-treasurer of that organi-
aztion. This appointment Is to NIL
the vacancy caused by the recent
death of Michael P. Carrick, and has
been Endorsed by the executive board
of the national BODY.
A strike of 10000 textile workers
has begun. BY total vote OF 1,51O
tn 396 the mill workers unions OF
Fall River voted to walk out in pro-
fest against a Jpn per cent reduc
tion in wages. A meeting OF the ex
ocutive committee of the United Tex
lille. workers of America was held
7 at which it was voted to sanction
whatever action might be taken by
the unions.
= p T. Barry of Boston was re
elected international president OF the
theatrical stage employees alliance
The convention. which was held al
milwaukee, decided that in any fights
against theatrical managers every Ell
! fort would be made not to Involve
mon from the travelling companies
Tbe convention gave Springfield the
jurisdiction over Westfield, although
Holyoke is nearer. -
Five thousand miners from Spring
valley. LaSalle. Peru. Oglesby, Laid