Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-06-03
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD

NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
New Orleans has nineteen negro Ia
Dor unions, numbering 11,0OO men.
Congress killed the eight-hour bill,
laying the matter over until the next
session.
At Denver, Colo, Justice Hynd dis
charged william D. Raymond, secre-
tary of the Western Federation OF
Miners, charged with dissertation OF
the flag.
President Frank Buchanan OF the
international Association Of Structural
Iron Workers has decided to make
New York the future national head
quarters.
Arrangements for the 1904 annual
convention of the A. F. of l.. in San
Francisco have already begun. The
Central Labor Council has appointed
all its committees for the affair.
At general meeting of glass bottle
manufacturers of the country, held at
Pittsburg, it was decided to close all
factories on June Is for ninety days.
and to demand a reduction in wages.
According to Secretary O'Brien Of
the bridge and structural iron work
ers' local of Chicago, 1856 per cent OF
the members of that local were either
killed or injured while at work during
1903.
James Short, executive board mem
Der of the Stone Cutters National
Union in the Chicago district, ar
ranged a settlement Of the stone cut
ters' troubles at Joliet and secured
the eight-hour workday.
The Santa Fe railway company was
granted temporary injunction against
the striking machinists Of the Santa
Fe shops in Argentine, Kas., by Judge
Holt of Kansas City, Kas. The order
restraints the strikers from interrer-
ing with the men who are now work
ing.
All the large shipyards in the me-
tropolitan district Of New York, eX-
cept that of the Boston Dry Dock COM
pany in Brooklyn and the yard of Tit
jen & Lang in Hoboken, are tied up
as the result of strike Of the Broth
erhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship-
builders.
OF 923 unions making returns to the
American Federation of Labor for
March, with an aggregate member
ship of l1A.500, there were Ia per
cent out of employment. In the pre-
ceding month out of membership Of
115,406 there were 7.3 per cent cut Of
employment.
The drivers district executive hoard
decided to advise the miners Of tie
Ontario & Western company to refuse
to obey the company's order, to work
a 10-hour day at the Ontario, Rich
mond No. 8, and the Johnson mines.
The company promised them an extra
hours pay daily.
The Indiana coal miners refused to
contribute to the strike fund for the
Colorado miners and committee sent
to collect money will return this week
empty handed. An articlc attacking
John Mitchell and printed in the or
gan of the Western Federation Is re-
sponsible for this attitude Of the
miners here.
Union workingmen and women Of
Chicago WHO desire to communicate
with their employers or members of
other urions will find it Difficult. to do
so hereafter, for the Chicago Fedar-
alton Of Labor has placed q boycott
on all telephone directories because
they are printed by R. II. Donuei,y &
Sons Company. The reason tor the
boycott is that the company refuses
to employ union booatindcrs.
The long pending legal contest te'
tween the Burns-Hicks and Hayes fac
lions of the Kni yhts of Labor was de-
cided in favor of the former by JUS
tice Anderson of the District Equity
court. The decision declares Henry
A. Hicks and Simon Burns, success
sively gener.l master workmen, to
have been the legal and proper off,
GERS of the order, and in sweeping
way uLholis their contentious.
Closed shop agreements, WITH labor
unions, we're given body blow bY the
Aprella . court at Chicago. In an
opinion hanUsd down by Judge Adams
the court said: "The agreements in
question would. II executed, tend to
create a monopoly In favor Of mem
bers OF the Unions to the exclusion Of
workmen not members Of such unions,
and are in this respect unlawful. Con-
tracts tending to create monopoly
are voii."
II any arbitration Law has any
points Of merit. then It seems to me