Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-04-29
NEWS OF The LABOR WORLD.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
y Sources.
The International Jewelry Workers
Union has begun the publication OF
a monthly magazine.
The Steam Filters Protective Asso-
citation will hold it's annual convention
in st. Louis in June.
Job printers of Louisville have
asked for an increase in wages Oh
S1.5O a week and an eight-hour day.
American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany employees have been notihed
that the plants will close unless
wage reduction is accepted.
About 10 London, England, police
men went on strike recently when
asked to collect scraps of paper and
rubbish while on duty in the parks.
The San Francisco street car en-
ployes are again demanding an IN
crease in wages and general strike
that will tie up the entire system Is
expected.
At Lynn, Mass, grain counter work
ers in the boot and shoe factories
have started a general strike to sup
mort the union demand for a new
wage schedule.
Bakers international union has
concluded to take up the cause OF en-
pioyes in the cracker industry. 1t Is
stated that the average weekly wage
is less than Sc.
The international brotherhood OF
electrical workers, by majority OF
4.2O5 against, voted down PROPOSE
ton to Join the structural building
trades alliance.
The latest report of the British
Amalgamated Society of Painters
shows an aggregate expenditure OF
100000, and only one-eighth OF
this amount for strikes.
A bill for the establishment OF
wages boards has been introduced In
the English parliament. The object
is to fix the minimum wage to be
paid in particular trades.
John M. Glover, union lawyer, who
resisted military arrest and was shot
in the arm by the soldiers at Cripple
Creek, CAL, has been fined for as
sault. A stay was granted.
The 800 striking elevator constuc-
tors and millwrights, who quit work
at New York in violation of their ar
bitration agreement, declared off the
strike pending arbitration, and re-
turned to work.
The Chicago branch of the National
Sign Painters Union has amalga-
mated with the Brotherhood Of Paint
ers and Decorators. This ends juris-
diction fight which has been in prog
ress for several years.
According to the report OF Secretary
Carrick, of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers and Decorators of America, the
organization paid $74,279.50 in death
and disability benefits in the two
years ending with 1903.
fhe quarterly report of James F.
Morris, secretar- of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor. for the quarter
ending March 81, shows that the re-
ceipts we're $1,242.2S, and balance in
the treasury of $7S0.77.
The members of the executive COM
mittee of the Lake Carriers Associa-
ton refuse to treat with the captains
as members of the Masters and Pi-
lots Association, and will deal with
them only as individuals.
In a circular sent out by General
Secretary Frank Duffy of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers to all local unions to guide them
in formulating agreements, the grad
ing system of wages is strongly con-
demned.
The annual convention of the Penn
sylvania State Federation of Labor,
held at Erie recently, reported that
POS labor organizations are affiliated
with the state body. OF these there
are thirty-one central bodies and 1T
local unions.
Frederick S. Auerbach, the student
of Cornell University who won the
oratorical prize from thirty contest
ants. chose as the subject of his
speech "The Evils of Child Labor"
Young Mr.. Auerbach is specialist
in political science and has been chos-
en- as the orator OF Corneli Oh seVerai
occasions.
The whole nation of Japan is
bound together as if it were one trade
union, says writer in an English
magazine. The secret Of Japan's
strength and progress is that the spir-
1t of unionism binds all the people to-
gether and prevents one from climb
ing up at the expense of another.
Labor Commissioner Mccormack OF
Indiana has issued a report which
deals with strikes and their causes.
He says: NINETY per cent OF the
strikes are due to the fact that the
employer has not been fair, or has
utterly refused to treat with his men.
It is not usually question OF wages,
but of humanity