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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1901
Page
3
The piece argues the source of hardship is worry not work, notes aging mechanics rely on brain over brawn after 40, cites button making earnings decline with age, and praises the union label as a growing force in labor. It includes a letter from a small western town asking how to use the union label.
Massachusetts manufactures statistics show 4 645 establishments with 8 84 percent under trusts. Far more than 90 percent remain independent and run by individual enterprise. The leather and cotton goods sectors appear largely unaffected across New England.
A historical summary reports Massachusetts industry with a capital value near 466 million dollars and stock and goods worth 800 million. Wages totaled 167 million paid to about 880 thousand workers, with 254 thousand men and 126 thousand women. The text notes these establishments aren’t all manufacturing firms in the state and cites total manufactured product value around 31 billion, including boots and shoes and leather goods.
The Chicago Journal describes a bound book of receipts for rural male carriers. Each page functions like a checkbook with a receipt and stub separated by a perforation. The carrier keeps it and the stub records the patron’s money and the recipient’s use. The patron supplies blank applications and money, turning the carrier’s receipt into the patron’s voucher that money and application were given to the postmaster to create a money order. The postmaster’s voucher is kept in his money order book as a carbon duplicate. The patron may have the postmaster insert the order into a letter or envelope or hand it to the carrier for delivery on the next visit.
Amalga Glass Workers' Union members in Chicago attempt to pressure firms to endorse a new wage scale and rules. The proposed agreement features a nine hour day with no wage reduction, overtime at three and a half, double time after 1 pm and Sundays, union-only employment in good standing, union label on goods, and arbitration of disputes. A year ago the union led a general strike to secure signatures from employers.
Father Stanton of St. Alban’s, Holborn, notes letters from strangers asking for a cook trained by him. A London Chronicle remark jokes about divine and devilish cooks as clergy appeal for kitchen help. Separately, Eugene O’Rourke of Typographical Union No 6 will represent the American Federation of Labor in September at the British Trades Union Congress in place of Joseph Valentine. Daniel Keefe of the Longshoremen’s Union is also a delegate.
A charity organization society opens a New York college for washerwomen offering twelve daily lessons. Students earn 60 cents a day plus luncheon while instructors cover the nature of flats and best cleansing methods under strict supervision until a certificate is awarded.
Contends joy in Milwaukee printers unionizing after years outside the craft union for 14 or 16 years. Portamouth union carpenters win pay raise from 2.25 to 2.40 and 2.75 for nine hours. Tennessee law makes it a misdemeanor to advertise for workers during a strike without stating it. Birmingham workers plan a labor temple costing 25,000 to provide housing. New York sheet workers amend constitution barring members from joining volunteer or standing armies except in war.
The national encampment at Cleveland will bring scores of aging Civil War veterans together, many not to attend another encampment. The event highlights the Grand Army of the Republic’s history of charity, mutual aid, and patriotism, binding old comrades across decades.
The piece extols the Grand Army of the Republic gathering in Cleveland at Central Armory with free quarters for 25 000 to 20 000 veterans. It notes monuments in Lake View cemetery Wade Park and the Perry statue as city highlights and predicts 300 000 visitors touring a city rich in memory and history during the encampment week.
Notes describe the national W P C meeting near Cleveland with visitors to Madison and the 160 mile radius. Special trains will aid guests to see the Tome and G A R activities. Cleveland will glow with electric lights, national colors, and illuminated monuments in a grand court of honor.
The encampment will host reunions of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade led by Gen James H Kidd of Totia, First Vermont and Twenty Fifth New York Cavalry regiments, and the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery. Another reunion celebrates the First Brigade Third Division Twentieth Army Corps once commanded by Benjamin Harrison.
The Central Telegraph Office at St Martin's-le-Grand in London operates year round with up to 198 000 to 160 000 telegrams handled daily. A record 195 411 messages were processed the day before Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1887. The vast staff includes about 2470 telegraphists and 1 200 lady operators, with hundreds of duplex and Wheatstone machines enabling rapid, multi direction messaging and up to 860 words per minute. Messages are dispatched globally, and the London to Paris line carried as many as 500 people daily with a fare of eight shillings for every three minutes.
Kansas City Journal argues for a dedicated negro exhibit at the St Louis fair to celebrate progress since slavery, with all work and management by Black people. It calls for a buildings designed, built, and run by Negro architects and workers to showcase life in America and advance race advancement for generations.
Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain is a famed ancient circle with disputed origins. Historical accounts tie its creation to Druids, Merlin legends, Nennius notes, and Roman influences, dating from before Christ to the fifth century.
The text notes the snow height at the equator reaching fifteen thousand two hundred sixty feet and contrasts it with about five thousand feet at the latitude of London, indicating a vast difference in snow accumulation between these two geographic lines.
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