Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Sources.
A new three-year scale, giving the
600 brewery employees of Pittsburg an
average advance of 10 per cent, has
been signed.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company has reduced the wages
of its employees in the steel works an
average of 10 per cent.
A reduction from ten to nine hours
a day in manufacturing establishments
has benefited over $4,000 men and
women in Chicago during the year.
President Shaffer announces that
nearly 5000 tube sheet workers will
return to work on the resumption OF
numerous mills under the revised
scale.
The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
Company's furnaces at Middlesboro,
KY, are banked and will be out OF OPP
Grafton ninety days. Two hundred
men are idle.
In a speech at st. Louis before rep
resentative citizens from every line OF
trade and commerce in the city, David
M. Parry spoke in favor of suppress
ing union leaders.
With the single exception of 10
per cent cut in wages, affecting 5000
employees of the steel trust in Phila-
delphia, no important reductions have
been announced for 1904.
The labor temple committee OF the
Chicago Federation of Labor recon-
mended that 100000 building be
erected by $40 contributions from the
100000 members of labor unions in
the city.
Reduction of wages, actual and
threatened, has aroused some OF the
labor leaders in the country and
wherever the workers are organized,
determined effort will be made to
resist any cut.
One thousand workmen Of various
trades in the plant Of the American
Car and Foundry Company at Hunting
ton, w. Va, are on strike because the
company made a reduction Of 10 per
cent in wages.
The advisory board of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tinplate Workers announced the vote
of thirty-three lodges of sheet workers
as being in favor of accepting the 10
per cent reduction voted at the spe-
cial conference some time ago, when
the turn limit was also increased from
1856 to $50 tons turn, or 450 tons a
day.
The reduction of wages at the Home
stead Steel Mills is causing dissatis-
faction. The men have asked for a
readjustment and representatives OF
1900 employees had lengthy confer
ence with A. R. Hunt, the manager.
President Gompers has sent let
ter to the Rochester Clothing Exchange
rendering the Offices of the Fed
Grafton of Labor toward Cancellation
for the great eight-hour strike in that
city being conducted by the United
Garment Workers, who have agreed
to joint piece conference.
Announcement has been made by a
member of the Chicago Typothetae
that with the expiration of the pres
ent agreements between that associa-
ton of employers and the printing
trades unions, no further agreements
would be made unless they contained
clauses permitting the open shop"
The volume of immigration to the
port of New York continues to swell
. beyond the record-breaking figures
of last year. In July, August and Sep
TENDER 129,S09 steerage passengers
landed in New York, as against 1885,
800 in the same months of 1902. More
than two f1fths of the immigrants an
nounced their destination as New
York.
The Bureau of Statistics of New
York State reports that in the six
months ended September 30 last 225
new unions, with 1854 members
were formed in that state, bringing
the total to 2,5S7. with total mem
bership of 395,73s. The gain was dis
tributed mainly as follows; New York
city, 24,361; Buffalo, 1885; Roches-
ter. 1928; Syracuse, 697; Albany, 2O1;
Schenectady.s1S7
The Drug Clerks Association OF
Chicago is making plans for the 1904
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