Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-06
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.


Sources.
Prof. Charles p. Neill has been ap-
pointed commissioner of labor, to
succeed Carroll ID. Wright.
New Orleans has nineteen labor
unions whose membership are colored
men. They have a combined mem
bership of II 900.
The general headquarters of the
Carriage and Wagon Workers Union
are to be removed from New York
City to Chicago, and the entire execu-
tive board are to be Chicago mem
bers.
President Moffatt of the United Hat
ters' union and Vice President James
Woods of the Cigarmakers' Interna-
tional union are the fraternal dele
gates elected by the A. F. of l.. to
uext summers British trades con-
gress.
A report is current that Andrew
Carnegie is planning to present to the
labor unions of the United States a
handsome Hall of Labor, to be erected
In New York and modelled along the
lines of the Palace of Peace recently
presented to The Hague.
The boilermakers employed at the
Gift works of the American Locomo-
tive company, in Scranton, Pa, are on
strike in sympathy with the strikers
of the Erie Railroad boiler shops at
Susquehanna, because the American
company is repairing Erie engines.
The 1900 census gives the number
OF Wageworkers in the United States
as 2S,2S5,022, divided as follows:
Professional, 1,264,737; trade and
transportation, 4,77S.233; domestic
and personal service, 5,691,746; manu-
featuring. 7,122,9S7; agricultural pur-
suits, 10.438,919.
Recent advertisements in Denver,
Col, and other Western papers called
for $4,000 skilled men in 100 different
trades, applicants to agree to work in
open shops. This is understood to be
a move on the part of the Citizens
alliance of Colorado in its campaign
against unionism and the closed shop.
There is movement on foot to have
the cigarmakers, garment workers,
matters, shirt waist and laundry work
ers and boot and shoe workers join
hands and each subscribe an equal
amount and keep several label agita-
tors on the road, visiting trade unions
and other organizations advocating
these labels
An act recently passed by the house
of representatives of Rhode Island
prescribes fine of $3.50 to $500, or
imprisonment for three to six months,
or both, against any employer or cor.
poration attempting to prevent work
ing people from belonging to a labor
organization as a condition of new or
continued employment.
The Outlook contains an article by
Slason Thompson on violence in La
Dor Conflicts" which presents some
statistics on the loss of life and physi-
cal injuries due to this cause. He
gives table by states showing that
during the period between Jan. 1.
1902, and June so, 1904, there were
killed in strikes $50 persons, injured
1,651, and arrested $3.50.
At recent conference of the en-
ploying printers and representatives
of New York Typographical Union,
new wage scale for the job branch
was negotiated which gives an in
crease of $3.50 week and makes the
scale $21. Machine operators were
advanced to 1923. A proportionate in
crease in overtime pay was granted to
apply also to apprentices in their last
year.
Chicago Typographical Union, Lo-
cal No. 16, has offered prizes to its
apprentices for the best composition
and makeup work The test consists
in printing, without instruction, bust
ness card for physician, giving resi-
1ence, Office hours, telephone number,
stc., and the proofs to be submitted
before Jan. /. Three prizes are Of
'ered, as follows: First, IS; second,
30; third, 81.
Labor organizations which contrib
tied to the Colorado strike fund have
)een furnished a statement of the re-
,eipts and disbursements of the fund
~ Secretary w. d. Harwood of the
Western Federation of Miners. The |
donations received from sources out |
tide of the local unions of the fedora
ion amounted to $154,699.22. The |
mount disbursed for nine months end
ng Sept. 80 is $355,S74.72.
The General Federation of Trades,
he financial organization of Great
Britain, seems to be growing very
veil despite bad industrial conditions.
The federation has membership now
4 425,O9O, with 100000 in the gen
raj treasury, while the affiliated ma
ional unions have total of $4,000
20 in their individual treasures. At
he recent conference Pete Curran
'as reelected president, and Isaac
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