Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-04-28

aid the strikers in COLORADO.
An agreement was reached at the
wage conference between the lake
carriers and the marine firemen, oil
ers, and water tenders union, where
by the men will receive last years
wages. The employees at first asked
for an increase of 20 per cent, which
the vessel owners refused, and the
men finally decided to accept last
years scale.
The new international officers OF
the Commercial telegraphers union
as announced by the canvassing board
are: President, s. J. Small, Seattle;
second vice president, Orville E.
Glenn. Winnipeg; secretary treasurer,
Wesley Russell, Washington; editor
and manager of the Journal, Will G..
Long, Dallas, Tex. There was no
election of first vice president.
The advance in wages made by the
United States Steel Corporation is
not general. The tonnage men and
high-salaried employees will not par
ticipate. All common laborers and
day hands, whose wages are not gov
erned by annual scales, will get an
increase of 10 per cent. Employees in
different departments will receive an
advance ranging from to 10 per cent.
Since the formation of the Farmers
Union in Texas not quite two years
ago, it's growth has been nothing less
than phenomenal. It's membership
now numbers more than 100000. In
Texas alone there is a membership of
more than 100000, and since the re-
cent state convention in Fort Worth
more than 100 additional locals have
been organized, approximately 1000
more members.
officials of the Illinois Central Rail-
road company have agreed hereafter
to follow the agreement with the
freight handlers and railway clerks by
promoting employees according to
seniority. A few days ago clerk
was made cashier while there were
800 employees who had been in the en-
ploy of the company for a longer
period. He will be succeeded by the
oldest employe.
International Typographical union
is over fifty years old, and 1t has not
vet established an eight hour day. 1t
hopes to do so next year. The Cigar
makers International union took
about thirty years to establish an
eight hour day, and the Journeyman
Horseshoers' union was organized
thirty-two years before its members
secured a nine hour day. But these
are the days of rapid development.
AS the result Of conference held
with Gov. Hanly at Indianapolis steps
will probably be taken to establish
penal farm in La Porte or Stark
counties. The proposition is to have
the state erect buildings and to
utilize the labor of several hundred
convicts in the reclamation and cul'
tivation of thousands Of acres OF land
in what is known as the Kankakee
country.
Announcement was made that oper.
atoms would be resumed at once at
the plants of the American steel hoop
company at Greenville, Penn, Girard
and Warren, o. These mills have
been closed since the beginning OF
the strike of the Amalgamated asso-
citation of iron, steel and tin workers
several months ago, and no attempt
has been made to start up, except at
Girard. 1t is stated that so per cent
of the strikers have promised to re-
turn to work at the company's terms.
According to the report of the Com
missioner of Labor, the first strike in
the United States took place in New
York City in 1741, when a number OF
journeymen bakers combined and re-
fused to bake until their wages were
raised. Dates of other early strikes
follow: Shoemakers in Philadelphia,
1896 and 1898; sailors in New York,
1903; Philadelphia shoemakers, 1905;
New York cordwainers, 1909; Pitts
burg cordwainers, 1915; Medford,
Mass, shipwrights, 1917; Albany
printers, 1921; New York matters,
1922. After 1926 strikes gradually be-
came more numerous.
The call for the fifteenth annual
of the International Long
shoremen, Marine and Transport
Workers Association has been issued
by Secretary Barter. The meeting
will be held in Detroit, beginning
Monday, July 10. Aside from the GUS
tomary information regarding qualifi-
cations of delegates. propositions for
changes in bylaws. the constitution
and other work of the convention, the
call reads: Remembering that De-
troit is the birthplace of our associa-
ton, let us put forth every effort to
make the coming convention one OF
the most successful that we have
ever known. Together let us review
the history of our association and
mark the progress that has crowned
our path since we assembled here In
Detroit and organized in 1892. We
look upon our conventions as a mu-
tual benefit to the individual member
as we'll as to our international asso-
citation as a whole, inasmuch as we
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