Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-14
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.


Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Membership in the trades unions or
Germany has increased from 246,494
in 1894 to SS7, 69S in 1903.
Old age pensions amounting to
| $7,056,970 were distributed to 12,48l
persons in New Zealand last year.
There will be no coal strike In the
anthracite regions this year, all dis
putes having been referred to Judge
Gray, whose decision will be binding
on employers and employees.
At the session of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Firemen $4,000 was
voted for the Railroad Mems Home In
Chicago.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has officially
Endorsed the strike of the $4,000 tex
tile operators of Fall River, Mass.
Machinists and boilermakers Of
Chicago, Lake Shore G Eastern rail-
road resumed work at reduced wage
scale after nine months struggle.
Though New York was one Of the
last states to organize in the cooks
and walters alliance, it has at present
seventy-six locals in good standing.
An order just issued in all the d.
partments of the Pennsylvania rail
road places $4,000 on tull time OF
ten hours a day, with the Saturday
half holiday.
The Carnegie steel company has an
nounced that regardless of any change
in the steel industry it will maintain
the present price for labor for the
next sixteen months.
For the year ending May 1, 1904.
the receipts of the international typo
graphical union amounted to $24O, OO5;
the expenses were $256,S17.3S and the
balance on hand is $36,357.62.
The number of persons out ca
strike or lockouts June 1, according
to Bradstreet's report on labor condi-
tions, was 295,000, decrease of $780,
600 over the figures of one year ago.
The 1,433 cooperative societies Of
the British Isles do an annual bust.
ness amounting to $90.000,000. One
society has $4,000 members and does
a business amounting to S7,5000O0 a
year.
Alligator catchers at certain points
along the extreme southern coast of
Florida have formed a union to pro-
tect their industry from amateurs and
others who shoot the alligators for
sport.
The Pittsburg District Council of
the Carpenters Union has been en-
Joined from making war on what they
style an unfair" employer, and award
ed damages to the amount of $1,770
for boycotting, etc.
No women or children can work
more than forty-eight hours week
or work between the hours Of 6 p. m.
and p. m, or Tor more than four and
a half hours at time in New Zealand,
so strict are the labor laws.
Russia has followed the example set
by Germany in establishing municipal
dentistry. The latter country last
year had teeth extracted for 1871 of
the school children, while the teeth
of 1861 children were filled.
An assessment of Is cents has been
laid on each union workman in San
Francisco, to 60 toward the entertain
ment fund for the approaching con-
vention of the American Federation Of
Labor, to be held in that city in No
vember.
The trades union congress at its
recent session at Leeds, England,
unanimously voted against any depart
ure from the free trade principles. A
change to protection, it was decided,
would mean increase in cost of the
necessaries of life.
The International Brotherhood OF
Transfers has decided to organize
the chauffeurs, and local unions are
to be established in all the principal
cities, to be affiliated with the team
sters. There has been talk of the
chauffeurs organizing.
Sheriff Bell has concluded that the
alleged confession of Edward Romano,
prisoner at Topeka, Kan, implicat-
ing union miners who formerly lived
in the Cripple Creek district, in the
indicator mine and independence de-
pot murders, is entirely false.
Rev. Allen A. Tanner, preacher,
has resigned the pulpit to don over
alls in the ranks of union labor. He
has gone to work as helper in a
machine shop at Toledo, Ohio, his |
object being to study closely tie
labor problems of the country from a
workingman's standpoint.
At the session of the United Broth |
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners at |
Milwaukee the secretary's report said
that in 4S0 cities eight hours consti-
tuted days work, 791 cities working |
nine hours, and many others working |