Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-11-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Labor unions of Kansas City are
again discussing plans for labor
temple.
The Journeymen Tailors' union OF
America, will mold convention in
Bloomington, ILL.,, the first Monday in
February, 1905.
The next convention of the Brick
layers and Stone Masons' mterna-
tional union will meet in San Fran
cisco Jan. s, 1905.
The third annual convention OF the
International Hold Carriers and Build
ing Laborers' Union of America Will
meet in Minneapolis, beginning Jan.
/, 1905.
Philip Weinseimer, former presi-
dent of the New York Building Trades
Alliance, was found guilty on the
charge of extorting $1,000 from
George ]. Essig for calling off a strike.
The International Bricklayers'
union, through referendum vote, de-
cided not to affiliate with the Struc-
tural Building Trades Alliance. VI
nearly $4,000 votes cast hardly 1000
were in favor of the proposition.
The arbitration board of the execu-
tive council of the Hold Carriers and
Building Laborers' union of Chicago
has succeeded in reducing the hours
of labor from ten to eight a day since
its formation, and in securing an in
crease in wages from $3.50 for ten
hours to $2.7O for eight hours. The
increase affected thousand hod car
riers and building laborers.
It is announced that the immense
plant of the Acme Harvester COM
pany at South Bartonville, ILL.,. will
resume Immediately, giving employ
ment to 900 men. The plant has
been practically closed for year,
owing to financial difficulties.
The tonnage scale in the merchant
mill of the Illinois Steel company at
Joliet expired Oct. 81 and scale re-
ducing wages 10 to Is per cent was
put into effect. The men accepted the
reduction, though there is bitter feel
ing, some of the men charging an ef-
fort for political effect.
Among the propositions sent to
vote of the members Of the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers Inter-
national Union is one to change the
location of the parent body from New
York to some other city. Among the
candidates for the place are Chicago
and Cleveland, but New York wants
to retain the headquarters.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has
adopted a novel method to regain
some of the nonunion steel plants in
Pittsburg by declaring them to be
"open shops" and permitting men to
work there If they wish and still be
recognized as union men. The move
is expected to result in a great ad-
vantage to the steel workers union.
The headquarters of the Interna-
tional union, which have been located
in the De Soto block in Indianapolis
since 1894, will be moved to the New
ton Claypool building, corner Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio streets, opposite the
new federal building, tomorrow,
where suite of eleven rooms has
been secured on the sixth floor.
The new mill being installed in
Youngstown, Ohio, by the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, will be
equipped to roll rails as well as sheets
and tin bars. This is the first de-
parture of that concern to make rails.
The Texas State Federation Of La
Dor has resolved to cooperate with
the Farmers Union and other organi-
cations favorable to the majority or
all of the demands of labor in order
ito advance the interests of those who
toll for their daily bread"
Girl cutters are now employed at
the factory Of the Millet-Woodbury
Shoe Company, Beverly, Mass. The
firm is teaching them to cut shoes
with the hope of breaking the strike
declared by the Knights of Labor at
the shop. Girl cutters are employed
in a number of places in the West
The president of the International
Union of Steam Engineers has been
placed under salary for the first time
in the history of the organization, and
will receive $4,000 a year, for which
he devotes his entire time to the
work. The salary of the secretary
treasurer was increased 5000, and his
Office help 50 week.
The Department of Health of New