The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-08-24
IN LAsoR's REALM.
Where Mechanics and Artisans Hoi
Sway Through the Week.

Sway Through the Week.
san Francisco. cal. g. to have a
building trades temple.
Cutlery forgers Of Sou'hbrIdge.
Mass. formed union recently
Autda has $4,000 miners Of whom
10000 are organized unions.
The brotherhood o. Carpenters and
Jo.uers issued 20 charters in June.
Garment workers the majority
italians. are on q strike at Utica, y.
IY
Timers at Nashville. Tenn. are on
..rlac TO enforce the ,.ghthouI day
/ Sow Orleans La. union plumbers
|hayc been ou strike since the FIRST OF
Ithr year
/ knights OF Labor members 90 Bos
tom. Mass. have decided upon po!it.
|oal activity
THE plumbers aud carpenters OF
Portland No have occurred tho cish,
|hour day
Slate workers iu Maine have See
cured "a ninc.hour day aud 10 per
|cout Increase lu wages.
Labor Commissioner Williams OF
Minnesota. Is a probable candidate tcr
IaH vog of Duluth.
,he Chicago ullJ Fede.duou OF "a.
bcr li TO organize a union for women
.in the stock yasiE
Suburban railway employees Of
cleveland. o.. have secured an In.
Icreasc of one cent per hour.
Iathcrs of Cleveland. o., have rats
ed their Initiation fee to $25 and Il o
dues are $3.50 per month.
United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers
declared for international sociaiiu
at their recent convention.
Bridge and structural iron Woke .
have formed new unions In Hamilton,
Ont. and Vancouver B c.
Arrangements are ing made for
an exhibit OF union lade goods At
the Minnesota State fair In septem
3 ber
The bartcuders OF New York will
demand an increase OF wages Septem
Iber l. The union has over 1900 mem
Ibers.
An effort will be made by the
e brotherhood OF Bookbinders to organ
B he that trade more thoroughly IN the
L Southern states.
The nowscale signed by all master
p |paiutcus at Rockford, llL, is two
i year agreement with pa cents an
l hour increase for 1907.
More than 81 100000 was paid IL
sick aud death benefits last year b!
unions affiliated with the American
Federation OF Labor.
Union teamsters have Introduce,
am ordinance iu Jersey city y, j.
preventing the employment OF boy
under rs years OF age os teamsters.
4 victory for organized labor tool
place in the recent election In SaI
- Jose. Cal, resulting in the election o
- two out of three councilmcn ana IN,
!, lcity clerk.
The Trades and Labor Council o
Kalamazoo Mich has decided to eu
ter the political held during the CON
ing au election and expects TO pre-
. sent a solid front
The total number of children a
Worl, In Missouri, according 10 IN
y last United States Cer,us, was 6l,6i.
IT. OF these 52S2l were boys between IN
ages OF ten and fifteen years.
" The United Mine Workers OF Amer
- Tea is opposed 10 the utilization q
Niagara Falls for power purposes
% .t' officers contend that In time IN
coal industry will be seriously aifec
. ed.
Untl recently II was supposed tina
" the United Mine Workers OF Americ
was the strongest labor union in tn
world. By recent statistics the Ge
- man Metal Workers Union is on tol
u In the -four years OF It's existence
w. Chicago lll, Milk Wagon Driver
Union, has increased wages of II
80 members more than 20 per cen
>" while it has cut the hours OF labor
" two.