Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-07-08
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

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Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Prussia has 2,033 associations VI
stenoraphers with 1921 members
Portsmouth, N. H., musicians are
planning to organize a union IN tha'
citv and nearly all are favorable.
The Central Labor Union OF Boston
is assisting to raise funds Tor tne
Free Homes for Consumptives, to De
built in Dorchester.
The Chicago Electric Fixture Hang
ers' Union has raised its dues 10 III
cents day, the highest pald ny
Chicago labor union.
Chicago freight handlers voted 90
600 and assessed themselves 20 d
week for the support Of striking mem
bers of the union in the east.
Union musicians in New York Will
soon have a building OF their own
worth $125O0O. Ground has been
cleared and excavation commenced.
Don't hold your meetings on the
street corners-the place you pay LOT
the privilege of so doing is where tney
sbould he teld.-The Steam Filter.
Typesetting machines are TO De III
stalled in the government printing
office, and next December the Con
eressional Record for the hrst ume
will not be set up by hand.
The call has been issued for the
annual convention of the BRUSH
Trade Union Congress, which Will pe
held in Leeds this year, meeting there
on Monday. Sept. 5. The last time
the congress met in that city was In
1873
The locomotive firemen at Wichita
Falls. Texas, have formed mechahi'
cal and reading club and they meet
once a week to discuss mechanical
subjects. The lodge rooms are open
as a library to the members at oil
times.
Tho executive board Of the Elevator
Constructors international union or
dered on strike the 1000 men employ
cd INV the Otis Elevator company at
Now York. The strike Is In sympathy
with the workers in Boston and Phiia-
delphia.
outside of plans for organizing
work and agitating and pushing the
union label, the international conven.
ton of the Ladies' Garment Workers
Union accomplished practically MOTH
ing. The general strike suggested Dy
the president was not ordered.
Judge Littleford at Cincinnati heia
that blacklisting could not De RENE
died or prevented by injunction. He
refused to restrain the proprietors
from blacklisting members OF the
Cab Drivers and Hackmen's union'
who have recently been on strike.
Iobn Mitchell is mentioned as the
Democratic candidate for congress
from Peoria, ILL.,, district. President
Mitchell and Secretary William Dopps
~ the miners union are in Europe
This week to attend the worlds con-
gregg of miners and other organlza-
ton meetings.
There was recently disastrous hre
Of Yazoo City Miss, in which several
of the churches were destroyed. va
ZOO carpenters' union voted per
cen+ assessment on the wages OF eacn
member for one year, the entlre
amount to be distributed equally
among the destroyed church parishes
and societies to assist in rebuilding
and continuing their work.
Nearly every shop in Boston and
all the shops in Cambridge and in the
South Boston district have granted
the request of journeymen horse
sboers' No. 5 for a Saturday halr-holi-
dav during June, July and August. A
onec,al meeting of the union has been
called for this afternoon at Jefferson
hall to take decisive action regarding
the few shops which have not yet de-
cided to close Saturday afternoon.
The brotherhood of Railroad Train
men is the strongest numerically and
the most aggressive of the various
railway labor organizations. Although
Il has always worked along conserva-
five lines and endeavored to avoid
strikes. on several occasions 1t has
shown itself ready to fight If that be-
came necessary. In that respect 1t
NAV be said to be more of trade
union than any of the other railroad
brotherhoods.
The teamsters unions of Chicago
are planning a Labor day celebration
and parade this year, since the Chi
caso Federation of Labor decided to
abandon the usual marching owing to
the heavy expenditure attached to the
labor organizations taking part. With
this object in view the teamsters'
council adopted resolution favoring
the project and ordered vote taken
by the sixty locals. Should the team
sters make display it is counted