The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-01-17
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Review Of Weeks Work Where Work
mon and Artisans Hold Sway.

about s4OO a year
Mattresses in San Francisco, Cal,
have decided to form a union of their
own.
Hungary has 52.140 trade unionists
in population of 15,5OO,O0O, or one
y 10 3G6.
Plans are on foot for new labor
temple and workingmen's club build
ing in Minneapolis, MINI.
Chicago, Ills. Painters Union has
demanded an increase of cents an
hour, to take effect on March 1.
There were 1857 strikes during the
year ending October 81 in Unions af
filated with the American Federation
Of Labor.
Il United Garment Cutters Of America
has been successful in establishing
another local union of this organiza-
ton in Montreal. Canada.
The Amalgamated Society of Car
penters and Joiners of the United
Kingdom had a membership at the
beginning of the year Of 71,6S5; 1t is
/ nov 60. 1926.
~ The latest union to join the labor
ranks in Los Angeles, Cal, is the
bootblacks. Il is said that in a short
time all bootblacks in the city will
be members.
n The International Brotherhood of
TTeamsters has organized loc|s of
truck, brick, sand, and coal teamstcrs
in Plttsburg, Pa with a combined
membership OF 500.
Organized labor in Seattle. Wash,
through it's Central Labor Council has
gone unequivocally on record in favor
of the municipal ownership Of the
street railways.
Under the auspices of tie Actors
National Protective Union, a union of
grand opera chorus singers, including
both men and women, has been form
= ed in New York.
: New York City Engraving companie
including the firms that make ban;
notes, have launched move to e5-
tablish the open shop in that branch
of the printing industry.
Organized labor has been officially
notified that the boycott on the prod
ucts of the Northwestern breweries
has been raised by the International
J. Union of United Brewery Worlmen
.of America.
The Workngmen's Municipal own
ership Association of New York City,
has been incorporated for the propa-
CATION of the ideas and purposes OF
municipal ownership and the operation
of public utilities.
The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, which operates the subway
and elevated railroads of New York
City. has announced an increase in the
pay of employees, taking effect from
January l.
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America
have won the first prize in competi-
Ative contest for unions of the world,
7held by the Liege International Expo
sition, in Belgium.
The total yearly earnings of union
printers are about .$40,000,000, and
book and job printers receive more
than half this amount. The total mem.
bership Of the International Typo
graphical Union is $4,000.
II is said that the Board of Pen
sions appointed to organize pension
bureau for the New York Central has
Ygflecided that employees who have
Preached the age of 20 years will be
retired by ccmpulsion.
Sixty-eight per cent of The 200
strikes in Great Britain last year were
successful. These strikes cost $4,000,
600 and gained for the workers in
higher wages $120,OOO,O00 and 1000,
900 hours shorter time.
A Owing to the expense OF holding an
Fnual gatherings, there has been some
agitation in the International Hod
Carriers and Building Laborers
Union of America over the question
of biennial conventions in the future
Trades Unions of South Africa have
} at last taken up the fight against Chi
ese labor in the mines. The Miners
Federation of the Transvaal has taker
the lead in the fight against further
importation of Chinese laborers.
The United Mine Workers now
Llstand 100000 ahead of any labor body
in the country in point of membership
and the or7arization is the largest IL
the world. The next body in order o.
membership in this country is the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters anC
Joiners.