Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27

- pan LOT ESTABLISHING ana man.
tanning sanitarium or health farm
for members suffering from tubercu-
losis has been submitted to a referen.
dunn vote of the members of the Cigar.
makers International union. If the
proposition carries the members will
each be assessed twenty-five cents to
start the necessary fund, which will
realize about 1000, and the insti-
tuition will be maintained by similar
assessments, provided that not more
than two are levied in any one year.
The present scheme suggest. that the
health farm be established in Gallo
RADIO.
The plate workers who are members
of the Amalgamated Association of
lion. Steel and Tin Workers will be
benefited by another advance. At a
conference at which the wage scale
was arranged for the year ending
June 30. 1903, the base of the tinplate
scale was reduced from $4.2O to SO
a box. Under the provisions of the
agreement wages advanced 2 per cent
with every ten cents box increase in
price. BY restoring the former rate
of $3.50 box the price will be twenty
cents above the base. and the amalga-
mated tin plate workers will be given
an advance of per cent in wages.
There is bright outlook for bridge
and structural iron workers during
the coming year, according to reports
compiled at the headquarters of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. A
good idea of the amount of work on
hand is afforded by the fact that all
of the American Bridge Company's
plants are now in full operation, and
will soon be turning out their full ca.
pacity. In all some fifty odd thousand
tons of material will soon be ready
for erection by the American Bridge
Company Besides this work there
are some thirty odd independent
plants that are well supplied with con.
tracts for structural material.
A bill has been introduced in Con
Pennsylvania, by request, which is de-
signed to regulate by novel means the
employment of labor. The bill pro
vides that any person or company EN-.
ploying journeymen mechanics, labor
ers, clerks, or other help shall give
preference to American citizens and
residents of the vicinity in which the
work is to be done; that no employer
shall have the right to discharge an
employe for petty cause, and that
any employer who refuses, without
cause, to give work to citizen of the
vicinity in which the employer lives
shall pay damages equal to the |
amount Of wages which would have
been earned by the worker who was
refused employment.
Separate bills have been introduced
and the House of Representatives pro.
vding for the pensioning of army loco
motive engineers, firemen and telegra
piers, as we'll as the widows and
minor children of the same The bills
are to the effect that all persons en-
ployed by the quartermaster general
of the army in these several occupa
tons, under contract or otherwise,
during the late war of the rebellion
and who rendered actual service for
a period of six or more months, and
were honorably discharged, and who
are now or may hereafter be unable to
earn living, shall upon the submis.
sion Of the necessary proof be entitled
to receive a pension of $50 per month,
and that such pension shall commence
from the date of the termination of his
class of service. The Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers Is back of the
dill to pension the engineers, and the
representing the other
classes interested will probably take
Up the pension question in behalf of
hese men.
William Abraham, one OF the British
raternal delegates to this country
rom the British Trades Union con-
,ress, who is at present visiting cities
n Wisconsin, says that we are behind
n this country in the matter of labor
egislation. Mr.. Abraham has been
member of parliament for the past
wenty years and is well versed in
rade union matters. He says: "In
everal ways the legislation of Great
Britain along labor lines is superior
o that of this country. For instance,
here is the law known as the work.
ngman's compensation law. This
neasure practically does away with
he tedious and expensive suits for
amages on account of personal in.
lry. In this country the workingman
as little chance to recover, because
t the co-employe theory and the the !
ry of contributory negligence. The
british law, which has been in effect {
Or about six years, eliminated both
f these safeguards to the employer.
! man is injured, unless it can be {
roved that he did it deliberately, he {
eceives after the first fortnight, a
I'm equal to half his weekly wage.
l case of death from such injury, his
lmily receives sum equivalent to
is wages for three years if not in
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