Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-03-25
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Engravers of the country are organ
izing an international union.
The miners at the East Lynn mines
on the East Lynn branch of the Nor
folk and Western railroad are on
strike.
There is a possibility that all union
drivers in Kansas City, Mo.-about
3,UOO-may join truck drivers who are
on strike.
Owing to an announced reduction OF
10 per cent a strike is on at the plant
of the Pond Planning Mill Company In
Conneaut, Ohio.
The yearly income of labor unions
in Great Britain is nearly $lO,Ooo'oOo'
and they have in their treasures the
sum of s1S,33O,OOO.
Several postal clerks unions have
been chartered by the A. F. OF L., and
now it is proposed to form national
union of the calling.
Bakers and confectioners' interna'
tional union is planning a national
campaign for the abolition OF night
work in every bakeshop.
The Citizens Alliance of Peoria,
ILL.,. has issued letter to all Illinois
employers associations asking them
to meet to form federation to Offset
effects of strikes.
Colored washerwomen of st. Louis
suburbs have formed union and have
increased their wages from 81 to $l.5o
a day and have reduced their working
hours from 10 to 6.
The strike of the laborers at the
Worlds Fair grounds at ST. Louis was
declared off and 1000 men resumed
work at the reduction from rs cents
to 20 cents an hour.
Sherman Parker and Thomas Fos-
ter, miners union officials, on trial at
Cripple Creek, Colo. on a charge OF
conspiracy in attempting to wreck
train, were found not guilty.
Frederick Tateman, late treasurer
of the National Woodworkers' union,
arrested in Denver on charge OF en-
bezling $3,74O, admits his guilt. He
says the money was lost in poolrooms.
It is figured by conservative esti-
majors that approximately $55,0OO,00O
has been taken from this country by
about $4,000 returning immigrants,
mostly Italians, to their native lands.
BY the largest vote for president in
the history of the association John P.
White, young labor leader from Os-
kaloosa, captured that office and
placed himself at the head of the
United Mine Workers of Iowa.
The Chicago and Alton railroad is
expected shortly to announce an In
crease in wages equal to that OF COM
peting roads as result of a hearing
given by General Manager Goodnow
to committee representing the fire.
men of the system.
The latest labor organization in
Ohio is a union of farm hands. A
uniform schedule of wages has been
adopted for all able-bodied workers
over 16 years of age, at the rate of
$275 a year and board, mending and
the keeping of driving horse.
A conference between the united
garment workers and the shirt, waist
and laundry workers international
union has been held at Troy and an
agreement reached on the jurisdiction
dispute which will be submitted to
the unions of both organizations.
Circulars are being sent all local
unions under the International Typo
graphical union by the Denver local.
urging the raising of fund to erect
an addition to the printers home at
Colorado Springs in honor CT the late
Congressman Amos j. Cummings.
President w. B. Huber of the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners has gone to New York with
$4,000, v-hich will be put up as
forfeit with $4,000 from the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters to guar
antee the consolidation agreement.
The New York state labor depart
ment reports gain of 1854 in the
membership of trades unions, or IL
per cent in the past six months. The
total has doubled since 1898, and Is
now 395,736, of which 14,753 are wom-
en-. There are 1857 unions in the
state.
A number of Chicago labor unions
have made a plan to obtain council
legislation to fix the maximum num-
Der of hours per day which their
members shall be employed. They
wish to get ordinances adopted fixing
the working day and making employ
ers subject to penalty for any viola
ton.
The executive board of the Interna-
tional teamsters' brotherhood has de-
cided that's local before it can go out