The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-07-11

cereal mill employees has been formed.
Order of Railway Conductors of
America VIII meet at Portland, Ore,
10 1905
An increase has been granted in
the salaries Of 1876 clerks in the Chi
cago postonice.
Germany has ffty-seyen national
trade unions. With a total membership
OF nearly 100000.
The police force Of Erie Pa which
has union. has received a requested
increase Of wages.
The membership Of the carriage and
wagon workers international union
now numbers l78.00O.
One hundred and three years ago,
England passed laws prohibiting the
formation of labor unions.
The first organization of farm hands
and renters has been formed in Kan
sas. Abilene being the place,
The business mems conciliation
committee at Bridgeport has failed
to settle the trolleymens strike
The organization OF an international
union made up Of unskilled laborers,
was perfected In Washington recently.
International brotherhood Of paper
makers has declined to amalgamate
with the pulp. sulphite and mill work
ers
Buffalo has been selected BY the Or
der Of Railway Telegraphers for the
next biennial convention 70 be held
IN May, 1905.
Trade uniouists have raised enough
money in Niagara Falls, n. y, to
erect a labor temple and the work will
soon commence.
The farmers are rapidly organizing
into unions. Throughout the West
there are a hundred Of these organiza-
tlons Of recent formation.
The recent convention OF the Broth
erhood Of Railway Trainmen has de-
cided 70 increase rs protection fund
from 800 900 to 100000.
The shopmen's strike OF the Union
Pacific at Omaha Is ended. The men
get an average increase OF 10 per cent
in pay and nine hours day.
Arrangements are being perfected
10 hold a convention in Pitts6urg
soon to form an international associa-
ton OF organizations OF contractors.
The number OF wage.earnery EN-.
ployed in the manufacturing ind Try
OF Chicago Va 1900 was 2O2,62l and
the average wage was S499 per year.
OF the $3.50 whits children in the
cotton mill districts of South Carolina.
two-hfths never entered a school and
only onefourth are In daily attend
ancn
About 10000 musicians Of the SCUM
try. or 95 per cent, we're represented
- the federation Of musicians nation
al convention held recently at Indian.
apolls.
on account Of so many OF the best
class OF workmen leaving for the
United States, the Norwegian govern
ment intends to take steps to check
emigration.
Eight hundred shoeworkers return
to the Field factories In Brockton. af-
ter ten weeks strike They gained
what they struck fora new price list
and arbitration.
The Wabash railroad trouble has
been sst.led by the company granting
increases OF pay OF from 70 TO Is per
cent TO It's conductors. brakemen. bag
gagemen and yardmen.
The Western Federation Of Miners
IS contemplating the organization Of
the Chinese and Japanese employed
in the mines and smelters Of the
Northwest and British Columbia.
seamen employed on the Michigan
Central car ferries az Detroit struck
10 enforce their demands for a wage
increase Of $50 a month. The strik-
ers we're replaced by nonunion men.
within the next year the United
Mine Workers Of America will have
a membership Of over 100000" This
statement was made by Thomas L.
Lewis, national vicepresldent Of that
organization.
The Providence carpenters strike,
involving 100 men, has been declar-
ed on. The men gain the eighthour
day and a minimum wag Of 35 cents
AZ hour. with double t'me Sundays
and holidays.
In consequence Of the refusal Of
the proprietors OF the large bakeries
in Baltimore to grant the demands
made recently by the iourneymen
bakers union a general strike was
begun. The bakers declare they viii
not yield.
The 400 girls In the finishing rooms
in all the coarse paper mills at Holy
olye have struck because OF dissaus-
faction with the schedule presented
by the American Writing Paper COM
pany. There are about 1000 employees
IN all ,ne mills.
The A. f. Of L. has al the present
time 1850 commissioned organizers
in the field. There were 2.542 organ
izations affiliated with the federation
on May /. and 107 Of that number are
national and international unions.
with from 10 to $500 local unions
each.
Clerks in iae rawnshops OF Chi
cago are forming a union for the bet.
az their condition. They
cofnpiaia that at present they are re-
ouired to work excessively long hours
and do not receive compensation com