Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-02-10
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.

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NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Thousands of operatives who have
been idle for nearly six months as
the result Of the great textile strike
have returned to work at Fall River
Mass.
Justice Scott Of the supreme court
of New York has denied the right oil
a labor union to expel member with
out permitting him to be present when
charges against him have been pre-
ferred.
The Western Federation Of Miners
has filed four suits against prominent
mine owners and sympathizers with
the Mine Owners association, asking
$221,154 for damages to union stores
during the excitement in the mining
camp last June.
Announcement has been made at the
Schoenville( Pa plant of the Pressed
Steel Car Company that the wages OF
employees in all departments had been
advanced 10 per cent. the increase to
date from the first of the new year.
Five hundred men are affected.
Notices of a 121a per cent reduction
in wages were posted at the Great
Fall River Iron Works cotton mills at
Fall River, Mass. The reductions af-
feet 1000 hands who have been at
work in the twenty-six weeks when
the operatives Of other mills were on
strike.
Preliminary steps making for an
amalgamation of the National alliance
of amalgamated painters, decorators
and paper hangers with the brother
hood of painters have been appointed
by the alliance to confer with. the
brotherhood to settle all difficulties
and bring about an amalgamation.
In England some centuries ago If an
ordinary workman without permission
moved from one parish to another in
search of work or better wages he
was branded with hot iron. There
were no strikes then. If the old Tu-
dor laws were yet operative there
would be none now. But happily we
have arrived at better means to settle
strikes.
A trade union of city firemen which
has increased wages 10 per cent with
in year and is now fighting for a
second increase and reduction in
hours from twenty-five to twelve per
day, is proving a great success at
Omaha, Neb.. and demonstrates be-
yond question that municipal en-
ployes can become good union men,
bers without trying to run the city's
business"
Because of his activity In a move.
ment to organize all classes of labor
on an industrial basis with inter-
changeable working cards, to work in
harmony with the socialist party, Will
liam E. Trautman, editor of the Brauer
Zeitung, official organ of the Interna.
tional Union of United Brewery
Workmen, has been formall:.- dis
charged by the international execu-
tive board. Trautman will appeal to
the membership.
John Mcneil, president of the In
ternational Boilermakers and Ship.
builders union, has been suspended
from Office by the executive council
on the ground that he did not work
for the best interests of the union in
the recent Union Pacific strike. In
ternational headquarters are in ! ~
sas City, Kan, where Mcneil also
lives. Members of the council and
other international officers decline to
make statement.
The brotherhood of blacksmiths and
helpers and the journeymen horse
shoers union have made an agreement
to end jurisdictional disputes. The
officers of each organization have
signed a contract that horseshoers
will not do any blacksmith work,
neither will blacksmiths do any horse
shoeing, and that each organization
will at once turn over any members to
the union having proper jurisdiction
over them.
A resolution barring membership to
all saloonkepers, owners of saloons or
barkeepers was adopted at the con-
vention of the United Mine Workers.
The International Union of Hold Car
riers and Building Laborers of Amer
lea, at it's annual convention in Min
neapolis, elected the following officers:
President, Michael Knipfer, Chicago;
vice presidents, August Palutze, Cleve-
land; v. M. Caravan, Portland. Me-.