Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-19
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.


Sources.
Work has been resumed upon Mi
nook Und.) coal mines after three
years of idleness.
The district convention of united
mine workers promulgated an official
strike order effecting about 5000 men.
The headquarters of the Western
Federation of Miners, now in Denver,
are to be removed to Lead, S. D., &C
cording to information from the west
A resolution providing for the regis
tration of union labels has been in
troduced in the Canadian parliament
at Ottawa.
The International Slate and Tile
Roofers' Union of America will meet
in second annual convention in St..
Louis Sept. IL.
Ir New Zealand last year 2,4S1 per-
sons drew old age pensions, amount
ing to $1,657,67O. The total cost of ad-
ministering the act was $4,000
The striking glove workers at
G!oversville, N. Y, are still without
hope of immediate peace. The fourth
month of the big strike is growing to
a close.
In my Judgment, the extension Of
the use of the injunction is the most
disturbing factor in our national life,
the darkest cloud upon our horizon
John Mitchell.
The wage scale of the bar iron and
steel mills of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company will not be settled by
a board of arbitration because of the
refusal of men to serve.
Secretary Draper of the Trade and
Labor Congress of Canada has sent a
circular letter to all local labor unions
In Canada urging their affiliation with
the Canadian parent body.
Five hundred and fifty operatives
struck at the United States Cotton
company's mills at Central Falls, R.
l., against the 12h per cent cut in
wages. The mills shut down.
The tin plate scale has been settled
and the great Shenango tin plant will
start up full turn, orders to that effect
HdNlI5 DCCL ioouCu, anu eiC NiSSi
mill will resume within few days.
The Massachusetts State Fedora
ton affiliated sixty-fve additional
trade unions during the past twelve
months, its membership now includ-
ING nearly every large union in the
Bay state.
Dispatches from Pennsylvania mine
centers report that the Cancellation
board is unable to meet the situation,
and that both miners and operators
are preparing for another great indus
trial struggle.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company and the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers have agreed upon a wage scale for
tin workers. The union grants re-
bate of 1914 per cent on foreign or
ders.
President Mackey of the Interna-
tional Paper Makers Union is report
ed to have declared that unless the
Fox river valley paper manufacturers
settle the strike at once he will call
out every union paper maker in the
country.
The reports Of the officers of the In
ternational Typographical Union to
the forthcoming convention of the Or
ganization at st. Louis have been is
sued in book form and show SPLEEN
did progress made by the printers in
the past year.
The Painters Union IT. Deadwood
S. D., has increased the minimum
wage scale from SO to $3.50 per day
and reduced the working day from ten
to nine hours. Paper hangers are paid
Tx cents, 15 cents and 16 2-3 cents
an hour and 10 cents yard for bur.
lap.
S. Karpen & Brother, one of the
largest upholstery employers in Chi
cago, and the H. Hafner Furniture
Company have renewed the agree
ment with the upholsterers' union
providing for the employment of men,
bers of the union and the nine-hour
workday.
Unless the operatives agree to come
into the Fall River mills and work I'M
der the proposed 121s per cent reduc-
ton, 1t is doubtful il any attempt will
be made by the cotton manufacturers
to run the mills before October, was
statement ,nade By prominent mill
treasurer.
Labor unions must live up to their