Kansas agitator., 1904-02-12
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
A bill has been introduced In the
Ohio legislature which, If 1t becomes
law authorizes any employer TO sue
labor union, whether the union Is IN
corporated or not.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor will spend the
month of March in Porto Rico investi-
eating the conditions of the wage
workers on that island.
The striking Quincy mine trammers
at Houghton, Mich, who demanded the
restoration of wages to $50 per month,
have rejected compromise OF so'
offered by the company.
The Shamokin Coal Company has
announced that its colliery, near
Green Ridge, employing 700 men and
boys, would resume operations, after
being idle three months.
The executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor has decided
to hold a meeting in Denver in April,
after President Gompers has returned
from his trip to Porto Rico.
The report of Henry White. general
secretary of the United Garment
Workers of America for the year 1913
shows that 34,0O0,OO0 garments were
made which bore the union label.
It was decided at the Indianapolis
session of the United Mineworkers OF
America to provide defense fund for
the strikers in the southern Colorado
field. The sum will exceed $5OO,OOO.
Thirty members of the Type Found
ers unien, who went on strike several
months ago against the American
Type Founders Company at Chicago,
returned to work on an open shop
basis.
The Baltimore Federation of Labor
has prepared a bill to be introduced
in the Maryland legislature forbid
ding women to sell intoxicating or
spirituous liquors over any bar in
Baltimore.
F. w. Modie, president of the Broth
erhood of Railway Expressmen, has
been appointed general organizer by
the American Federation of Labor,
and will endeavor to reorganize the
expressmen.
The fourth annual convention of the
Tug Fireman and Linemen's Protec-
tive association was held in Chicago
recently, and plans were laid for re-
ducing the hours which firemen on
tugs are compelled to work.
John F. McNamee of Cincinnati o.,
has been elected editor of the Locomo-
tive Firemen's Magazine, vice George
Cooling, Chicago, resigned. Mr.. God
ing was appointed in October, but
later withdrew his acceptance.
District officers of the United Mine
workers have put into effect the order
to organize the miners in the Connells-
vile coke regions, as decided by the
district convention. There are $4,000
unorganized men in the region.
Union bookbinders struck in all but
four of the shops in Los Angeles, Cal.
The men want an advance of wages
from $18 to $3.50 week and recogni-
tion of the union. The strikers have
tied up all the shops from which the
men walked out.
The executive council of the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and Join
ers has refused to sanction the depos.
itipg of $25, 900 as guarantee that the
temporary agreement with the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers should be lived up to.
The employees of the New Haven,
Conn, Iron and Steel Company, who
have been idle since Dec. 49, when a
lockout was declared, held a meeting
and voted to submit the wage question
in dispute to the national organization
of iron, steel and tin workers.
P. ]. Mcclure, former vice president
of the American Federation of Labor,
writes to say that there is monument
to William H. Sylvis, father of the
Iron Molders union-a fine granite
shaft in Fernwood cemetery, near
Philadelphia, erected by the Iron Mold
ers Union of North America in 1887.
At recent meeting the Chicago
local of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers union voted to demand
wage increase from 56A cents an hour
to 621a cents. The agreement with
the iron league made last year ex-
pires April 1, and the union has deter
mined to ask for the highest wages
paid in any building trade in the coun-
try.
The United States Steel Corporation
has ordered all the sheet mills to re-
sumo. An additional 100000 is to