Kansas agitator., 1905-05-12
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.

Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
For the first time in the history Of
Chicago the BARRIERS are about to be-
come organized thoroughly and will
make an agreement with their employ
ers.
All the contracts of the different
labor unions have been agreed to by
the Lake Carriers Association and the
labor board has been all cleaned for
the 1905 season.
Practicing physicians at Ferndale,
Cal, have formed union" and have
adopted a scale of prices. The Trades
Council of that city will extend the
doctors an invitation to join its BODY.
Union rockmen and excavators in
New York city decided to tie up all
the work in their line unless demand
for a new wage schedule is granted.
The number of men involved is about
10000.
Rhode Island state federation OF
labor is arranging for monster par
ade at Providence some time in the
early summer. 1t is expected that
President Gompers of the A. F. OF L..
will be present and speak.
Finnish miners who went on strike
in the Hibbing district in Minnesota,
and forced 1,500 men to quit work, sue
ceeded in closing the Mehoning, Ag-
new & Buhl mines, adding nearly 600
men to those who are idle.
Given the alternative of nine-hour
workday or giving up their customary
glass of beer every hour 200 employees
of the Kahier's Brewery at Mahanoy
City. Pa, after much hesitation, 1e-
cided to give up the beer.
The proposed plan of affiliation with
the Amalgamated Society of Carpen-
ters, an English organization, submit
ted by the organization after an over
whelming vote in its favor, has been
rejected by the Carpenters and Joiners
of America by vote of almost to l..
This is an indication that the com
ing building season in New York will
be the most prosperous that the city
has seen in many years. Two labor
delegates will sign the agreement on
behalf of 100000 skilled workers,
while the employers will sign for 1000
employers.
It is announced that the car and
engine shops for the middle and most
of the eastern divisions of the Wabash
railroad system are to be concentrated
in one plant in Decatur, III. The citi-
zens, through the chamber of COM
merce, recently gave site of seventy
acres.
In making a report on a recent or
ganizing trip through the island OF
Cuba, President Perkins of the Cigar
makers union says that he found the
workers badly divided among them
selves on racial lines. About half of
the cigarmakers in Cuba are Span
iards and the rest Cubans, and the old
prejudices are still strong.
The announcement was made that
unless the demands of the shrinking
Santa Fe machinists and the boiler
makers are adjusted at once a strike
of the blacksmiths will next be called,
and if that does not bring the COM
pany to terms, it is asserted the car
repairers will then be called out.
James Rhodda of Upper Lehigh, Pa,
a member of the miners examining
board, who is charged with fraud in
av,ft tne nf II
Gates of competency to mine workers,
was arrested on warrant sworn out
by District President Dettrey of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Japanese newspapers contain adver-
tisements to the effect that steamships
will leave Honolulu monthly for the
United States to take Japanese labor
ers to the Pacific coast. Agents are
reported to be at work on Hawaiian
sugar plantations trying to induce ia
panese laborers to go to this country
The miners of the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania are pleased
with the results of their legislation in
the General Assembly. The miners
are pleased because they have secured
the passage of two of their principal
bills-the child labor bill and the mine
inspector bill-both of which were
drafted at the request of President
John Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers.
The strike at the porcelain works
at Limoges, France, practically ended
by the signing of an agreement be-
tween the proprietors and workmen
adjusting their differences. A feature
of the agreement is the removal OF the
foreman of the Haviland factory.
whose conduct was the main cause OF
the trouble, the workmen insisting on
his reuoval