Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-03-03
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items of Interest Gathered from many
Sources.

Sources.
The national convention of the Jour-
neyman Tailors' Union voted 10 re-
duce the reinstatement fee from $lo
to &c.
The strike of street car conductors
at Moscow, Russia, is ended. Inc
municipality granted all the demands
of the men.
It is announced that 22,957 miners
out of 39.442 employed in the collier
les of the district of Charlerol' BEL
GUM. are now on strike. In the BOT
image district $4,000 miners are on
strike.
Twenty-seven thousand men are
now employed at the Krupp works at
Essen, Germany, the highest NUMBER
ever employed there. In the heavy
gun department men are working III
double shifts.
The strike of 100000 miners in the
Rhine nroyinces. which has been in
progress since Jan. 8, has terminated
in a victory for the mine owners. Inc
strikers funds became exhausted.
Work has been resumed.
There are now more than lao ma
tional and international affiliated
bodies in the A. F. of l.. These subor-
dinate organizations are composed OF
hundreds of local unions. Financially
the A. F. of l.. is strong.
The labor movement is growing.
The widespread increase in the ranks
of organized labor is causing much
concern in certain quarters. Inc
growth is not confined to any one or
two organizations, but is general all
along the line of union labor.
John Mitchell, national president OIL
the United Mine Workers of America
left for Birmingham, Ala, where ne
will investigate the grievances OF lhe
5000 bituminous miners OF the twen-
tieth district. who have been out since
July on a dispuated wage scale.
Upon a recent visit to Pittsburg
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor advised all local
unions to affiliate with the Iron City
Council Many of the labor unions
there belong either to the United La
Dor League or the Building Trades
Council
The United Teaming Interests of
Chicago was launched at a banquet
by fifty representatives of the various
team owners associations in the city.
Eleven associations of team owners,
employing approximately $4,000 union
teamsters, were declared eligible to
membership.
]. P. Sousa, Innis and all the great
bandmasters and players in the
United States and Canada are men,
bers of the Musicians union. In Brit
ish Columbia there are branches in
Victoria and Vancouver and branches
are also being organized in Nanaimo
and New Westminster.
President James O'Connell OF the
International Association of Machin-
fists denies emphatically that any Off
Ger or member of said body officially
represented the machinists at the Chi
cago conference of industrialists, of
which w. E. Trautmann of the Inter-
national brewers union is the secre-
tary.
In the last year the Steam and Hot
Water Filters and Helpers Union has
established local branches in Fall
River, Mass, Pittsburg, Jersey City,
N. J.. Baltimore, St. Joseph, Mo-, San
Francisco, Peoria, ILL.,, East st. Louis,
Ill.,. South Bend, Ind, Bridgeport,
Conn, Rochester, N. Y, and Paterson.
N. ].
When the United Metal Workers
International Union decided to sub
nit the question of withdrawal from
the American Federation of Labor to
a referendum vote for the purpose of
affiliating with the American Labor
union. it seems to have signed its
death warrant The Cincinnati local
of the organization has withdrawn
and Joined the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers.
In the past ten years s75,O0O,0OO has
been distributed by 100 principal
trade unions in England to support
members in time Of trade depression
and misfortune. OF this sum nearly
17,5OO,OnO has been disbursed to re-
lieve unemployed members, while in
providing for sick and accident bene-
fits $13,53O,O0 has been disbursed. In
addition $7,50O,00O has been used in
paying old age pensions.
Tho frat national convention OF the