The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-03-27
IN LAeoR,s REALM.
Review Of the Week in the Busy World
OF Industry

ItlnltIs III hdllhd1 ItCNlN' dH ave.
age OF $500 per day.
The city Of Toronto Can. has de
cided to pay laborcrs not less than 50
q day.
For the last fiscal year the total
output of all Illinois coal mines was
S71sS.S7l tons.
Actors National Protective Union
will meet in annual session in New
Yorl, City on May q.
The elghthour law Of Michigan has
been declared valid in recent de-
cision by the supreme court Of that
state.
Every Saturday Of the year is now
a half.holiday with the bricklaycrs Of
Boston. Mass. according TO the union
rules
Boston 4 Maine railroad baggage.
mon will ash the road management
for a wage increase and reduction OF
hears in some cases.
Employers in the Briash cotton
trade have conceded the pa per cent
advance. which has been under consid.
Grafton for some time past.
Fifteen new unions have been added
10 the Amalgamatcd Sheet Metal
Workers International Alliance since
the first Of the year
A charter has been granted by the
International Sheet Metal Workers
Union to the railroad shopmen Of Min
neapolis and ST. Paul, MINI.
II is reported that the machinists
throughout the country will attempt
this year to establish an eight-hour
work day in the machinery trades.
A Boston. Mass. Railroad Switch.
mems Union Is now being organized
The switchmen had strong union IN
that city and vicinity some years ago
Because the increase asked by St
Louis. Mo, carpenters was refused,
they struck. and about 1000 other men
identified with the building trades
went with them.
At Boston. Mass, six hundred car.
rlage and wagon workers struck re-
Gently for an elghth5ur day, a closed
shop. and Saturday halfholday durins
the summer.
n Is reported that unless It's en-
ployes line up &c defeat the Twoeent
Rate law recently passed in Ohio the
Pennsylvania railroad viii abolish rs
pension system.
Plans are under way at Minnoapo-
lis, MINI. for the formation OF con-
sumcrs' league. the main object Of
which will be 10 combine The purcnas-
ing power OF organized labor.
The grievance committees OF the
Brothcrhoods Cr Trainmol and Con-
ductors Of the Lehigh Valley railroad
company will demand a tcn-hour work.
day instead OF l2 hours.
The cash balance OF the Illinois
Mine Workers. ON hand February H.
was 1929. 9.G3712. The receipts for the
year amounted to s3iS,92lG7, and the
expenditure to S2Os.6l0.2i
Since the per capita tax OF the Boil
ormakers and Iron Shipbullders was
increased from % to so cents a month.
On January l. there has been some dis
sonsion in several of the lodges.
Al the last meeting Of the Brother
hood Of Railway Trainmon IL was
stated that the international unloh
was going to build home Of It's own,
ana that $4,000 had been set aside to
start with.
Master Builders Association Of Fall
River Mass, has declared for the
open shop This action was decided
upon after the carpenters had asked
for J0cent daily Increase in wages.
The Pennsylvania bureau OF mining
reports that A mine workers were
killed in the Twelfth district. and 40
In the Thirteenth district last year.
The "a left 81 widows and 2l9 chill
dren.
Chicago, H.. painters have won an
important victory. They recently Sc
cured an increase OF cents an hour
In wages, which IN the aggregate
means about s2,5Oo a day to the nom
bers OF the craft.
Because of the energetic attitude
taken by organized labor in Santa
Clara county, Cal, against employ
ment OF MonGolians. at least one half
of the Chinese and Japanese have al
ready been discharged.
Chicago, HIS, photographers are 90
ing to take up the pure food crusade.
Unless certain manufacturers order
labels for their food products which !
tell the truth, 1t is said the lithograph'
ers will not print them.
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