Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-04-28
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.


Sources.
Railroad telegraphers gained SIG
new members in February.
The benefit fund which the switch
mems union has paid out in the last
three years amounts to 1851 900.
Part of the trammers at the Frank
lin Junior mine at Houghton, Mich,
gave up the strike and returned 10
, work under police protection.
Three hundred and fifty coopers, en-
ployed by Milwaukee brewers and
outside shops, struck for an increase
in wages from 35 to 371. cents per
hour.
The United Mine Workers of Ameri'
ca have invited the general public 10
hear President Roosevelt address the
union miners in the anthracite region
on August 10.
Headquarters of the new Paper
Box, Bag and Novelty Workers Inter-
national Union, just chartered by the
American Federation of Labor, have
been established in Chicago.
Building prospects in Chicago re-
ceived a big impetus in the assurance
that labor troubles will not impede
the construction of thousands OF struc-
lures which will be under way by May
1.
A fraction more than 80 per cent OF
the linotype operators in daily ana
weekly newspaper, book and job print
ing offices in this country are men,
bers of the International Topographic
cal union.
Union laboring men were instru-
mental in exposing the $4,000 big
tunnel-bribery scheme in Chicago.
This. in the eyes of the Parryites, Is
probably another union crime.-The
Louisville Labor Journal.
The United States treasury authorl-
ties have decided that the blue label
of the cigarmakers may be placed
anywhere on a cigar box, so long as
1t does not conceal any Of the stamps
or marks required by the revenue
laws.
A movement has been started in
Boston to charter a servant girls
union" to be affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. 1t is plan
ned to secure places for members, do
ing away as far as possible with the
employment offices.
Agreements with the tin plate, sheet
steel and other workers, which expire
on June 80 next, will not be changed
at present. 1t is expected that higher
wage scales will go into effect in these
departments after the present agree
ments have expired.
At a conference between the repre-
sentatives of the various labor organi-
cations engaged in the building trades
at New York and a committee from
the Employers League, the basis for
an amicable adjustment of all labor
troubles was agreed to.
Official notices have been sent out
by the various companies of the
United States Steel Corporation in
forming thousands of workmen of an
increase in wages. 1t is estimated
that the increase will amount in
round figures to $S,OOOOOO.
It has been arranged that on May
1, 1906, every French trade unionist
will. at the conclusion of the eight
hours of his days work, quietly and
peaceably leave the factory" Next
morning he will present himself for
a second days work of eight hours
duration.
The Inland Steel company resumed
operations in the sheet mill of it's In
diana Harbor plant with a force of
nonunion workmen. In spite of
threats by the strikers to cause
trouble If the plant should be re-
opened, there were no demonstrations
OF violence.
Samuel Gompers bears the distinc
ton of holding the longest continuous
membership card in the Cigarmakers'
International Union. He Joined in
1854. Previous to learning the cigar
making trade his was apprenticed to
a cobbler, but he evidently did not
stick long to the last.
A committee appointed by the
Trades and Labor Council of Winni-
neg, Canada, to make report on the
feasibility of erecting a labor tenn
ple" there, has recommended that
such an enterprise be undertaken and
that the building be known as a
Trades Congress hall.
William d. Haywood, secretary
treasurer of the Western Federation
of Miners, emphatically denies