Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

OF Perth Amboy, N. D.. obtained YER
dict for $500 damages against the
walking delegate and members of the
Bricklayers and Plasterers' Protec-
tive union of Perth Amboy for dam
ages resulting from boycott.
The general strike and lockout of
photographers was officially declared
off, the unions by clear majority
having voted for the arbitration
agreement recently submitted in
referendum vote. The 10000 or more
idle employees throughout the country
were ordered to return to work.
Out of every dollar that the Ameri-
can nation makes each year the rail-
roads get about ~ cents. And ont
of every dollar that the railroads get
the employers get &C cents and the
government gets about 3 cents in
taxes. The total income of the rail-
roads last year was nearly s2,000,000.-
900.
The strike of the truckdrivers at
Kansas City, which has been in prog
ress for several weeks, has been de-
clared off by the Truckdrivers' union
the strikers being advised to make
peace with the employers and each
striker instructed to secure employ
ment on any terms that he may
choose.
The negotiations between the Ma
tional Metal Trades association the
employers organization and the Inter-
national Association of Machinists
hav0 been abandoned, with the result
that the strife which has character
lied the relations of the two organiza-
tions during the last few years will
be renewed.
In Brantford, Canada. there is a CO.
operative binding Irvine factory that
is owned and operated by 5000 farm
ers. 1t was started twelve years ago,
so that it is no business bubble. Last
year it paid "a per cent profit, and
sold Irvine lower than any other twine
company. The 5000 farmers are about
to start cooperative factory to man.
ufacture their own farm machinery.
1.-THE National Metal Trades asso-
ciatisn has found agreements with Ia
Dor unions in most cases worthless.
They are not lived up to and afford
no protection to our members. The
association discourages the signing Of
new agreements. 1t is safe to say
that but few will be made this year"
said Secretary E. F. Du Brul of the
association, after the negotiations had
ended.
There are now in Belgium four
schools for the instruction of fisher
men. The pupils are taught how to
read weather charts, how to make
the best use of currents, what the
bottom of the sea is like, how to man.
age their own nets. how to manage
a boat in storm, how to use the
latest inventions in the line of fish
ing apparatus, etc. There are about
$50 pupils now in these schools.
A proposition to form wage work.
ers' anti-high-rent union to demand
reduction of % per cent in rentals
was not approved by the New York
Central Union. Telegraph operators
have demanded $3.50 per day and
train dispatchers $50 per month from
the elevated railroad systems OF New
York. The only labor bill to pass the
New York legislature was one to pun
ish counterfeiters of union labels.
Trades unions cannot be de-
stroyed," says the editor of the Cloth
ing Trades Bulletin. unions repre-
sent the upward striving mass of the
people. They have brought the bene-
fits of progress to millions, and they
can never be broken up. The union
is firmly implanted in the soil Of our
industrial system, and looping off
branch here and there will not de-
stroy unionism."
In this months Federationist Presi-
dent Gompers says: organized labor
will resist any attempt at wage cut
ting lust as it has prevented wage
cutting in the past, and preparation Is
necessary to accomplish this work.
Just as sure as the sun rises and sets,
lust as sure as the tide GIBBS and
flows. there will come an industrial
stagnation in our country. We should
be prepared for 1t and let the burden
of It fall on those who are directly re-
sponsible for it and not on the work
ing men and wage earners."
The A. F. of l.. exhibit at the st.
Louis fair has been arranged. 1t will
contain "a articles, forms of commits
stons to organizers. forms of certifi-
Gates of membership, forms of obliga-
tions and methods Of procedure, in
structions to locals, histories and
methods of all the affiliated interna-
tionals, photographs, constitutions, Ia
bel bulletins, trade banners, the orig
inal charter of the National Labor
union, organized in 1866, and chart
showing the growth in membership of
the American Federation of Labor,
from a few thousand in 1881 to nearly
1000 900 in 1904.
Alleging that the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners OF
America sis trust, an illegal associa-
ton. a combination against public pol
lev and contrary to law" a petition
a., @lo 1H3oa Of tho oirC1if