Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

German industry employs the great
est percentage Of women in proper
ton to the total population.
The Montreal trades council has ad-
mitted it's inability to produce skilled
labor in the quantity required by the
Canadian Manufacturers association.
A new wage schedule, which car
ries an advance of 20 to rs per cent,
has been conceded by the diamond
cutters of New York city to their en-
| ployes.
The report of the secretary-treasur-
| er of the Switchmen's Union of Amer
lea shows that more than 100000
have been paid out to members with
in the last three years.
The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor adjourned
at Washington to meet on the train
which will carry them to the general
convention at San Francisco about
Nov. 1.
The immense Pullman (Ill.) car
works at Pullman are shut down, and
practically every one of the COM
pany's 1000 employees is idle. Work
is not expected to be resumed before
| December.
At Springfield, ILL.,, the hearing of
the injunction suit against the Ziegler
union mine strikers was postponed I'M
til master in chancery can hear tes-
timony. The temporary injunction
stands meanwhile.
With the closing down of the three
Chicago plants of the International
Harvester Company and with 1000 of
| the stockyards unionists still unem-
ployed the number Of working men
and women estimated to be idle in
Chicago reached $4,000.
A Judge in San Francisco fined a
policeman named Fogarty who has
assaulted a union picket. The judge
said the assault was entirely unpro-
voked, yet the San Francisco branch
of the Parry alliance to preserve law
and order paid Fogarty's fine.
Aberhardt G. Stanelle, nonunion
engineer, has begun fight in the
Circuit court at Chicago against the
International Union of Steam Engi-
ueers, and Judge Mack issued tenn
porary injunction restraining the Or
ganization from interfering with his
employment.
"The union is the greatest of ex-
listing forces in what is called Ameri-
canization. 1t breaks down the bar
riers of race, nationality, language
and religion; teaches selfgovernment
and obedience to elected leaders;
sets lid the goal Of an American stan
dard of living."-Prof. John r. Com
mons.
Berks county, Pennsylvania, shows
a large number of women employed
IN mills. factories and other indus
tries. There are SAT- women and
girls working in every class of indus
try in the county, of which number
over 5000 are employed in the city
of Reading.
In five years from 1898 the average
number of workpeople affected by Ia
bor troubles in Great Britain was
PIP, 900, which meant an average loss
of 5,716,O0O days. The five previous
wears an average Of 100000 persons
we're affected and the average num-
her of days lost was 11,963,0O0. The
decrease was due to organization.
The brotherhood of locomotive fire.
men was organized by II men OF the
Erie road Dec. 1, 1873. At its first
convention IL lodges were represent
ed, while at the second convention 300
delegates were present. The brother
hood pays a death benefit OF $1,000,
and at least 10000 persons will be at
its convention at Buffalo this year.
The Macbeth-Evans Glass company
has perfected arrangements for oper-
ating its big chimney factory at Char.
leroi, Pa, on non-union basis, the
old employees having refused to return
at the company's terms. The men
will be housed and fed inside the
plant, and precautions have been
taken against violence on the part OF
the strikers. ~.
Patrick Scullin of Indianapolis, Ind,
has devised a new scheme to bring
capital and labor together. He has
formed the National Peace Industrial
Association" and through that body
all troubles are to be settled by lin
vestigation, Cancellation and arbitra-
ton" The claim is made by him that
the proposition has been Endorsed by