The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-21
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Review Of Weeks Work Among Me
ehanies and Artisans.


withdrawn their demand for the eight
hour day.
There are 46,6l2 boot and shoe
workers in Mexico and the wages run
from 81 to 50 cents day.
Al Denver, Colo, police have rule
1that a paid-up working card is proof
that its possessor is not a vagrant
Boston. Mass. Journeymen Free.
stone Cutters Union has Joined the
international of that craft
Electrical workers at Vancouver, p.
&c, have asked for an increase from
s3 to 1926 for an eight hour day.
On May / at Cincinnati Ohio. Anal
Hgamated Association of Iron. Steel
.and Tin Workers will meet in con-
(vention.
The Label Committee of the San
aFrancisco, Cal, Labor council is dis.
tributing 10000 union labor calendars.
Nine-tenths of the printing Offices
in the metropolis are now working un
tder the eighthour day and close-shop
agreement.
The Typographical Union has estab.
nished the union shop and the eight.
.hour day in over 400 cities in the
iUnited States.
The Broom Maker reports an in.
.creasing membership in that craft,
land all unionlabel factories running
TO full capacity.
In one OF the hottest municipal cam
paigns ever decided in Knoxville,
Tenn, Samuel G.. Heiskell, organized
labor's candidate for mayor, was elect.
ed.
Lthographers' International Protec.
tive and Beneficial Association has a
membership of $500 skilled workers
of the craft in the United States and
Canada
Representatives Of labor state that
Montreal Canada, has enjoyed an or
= lganization boom during the past three
months, some five or six thousand
new members having been enrolled
Fifty thousand members were add.
ed to the membership of the United
Mine Workers as the result of Pros
ident John Mitchelrs organization
tour of the anthracite coal region
last fall.
Striking printers in New Yori
starved out saloon-keeper who set
hIp bar in their hall. When night
came the disciple of Bachus found
that he had taken in only the provcl.
bial 30 cents.
Passenger brakemen of the Rori
Island have had their monthly com
pensation increased from S6750 to
been granted for terminal and roai
overtime.
Organized in 1901, the City Fccnt
Federation of San Francisco. Cal,
now includes 16 unions, with an &c
tive membership f $4,000 and over
quarter of a million of dollars n
their treasures.
julius Cohen, an open-shop ciga
dealer of Boston, was committed t
the House OF Correction for 81,
months for using bogus union label
He had previously been fined $50 To-
the same offense.
The Lackawanna railroad firemcr
have been granted II per cent of thei
demands. The agreement for the en-
suing year has been signed by the Off
GERS Of the Firemen's Board and o
the railroad company.
Another conviction for violati '.
of the eight-hour law has been mad
in Missouri The manager OF the mine
at Miami has been fined for comp y
,ling his men to work longer than tn
law allows, and other cases are pend
Ing.
In Colorado there are three time
as many women emplayed as "ser
wants and Mattresses" as there ar
men employed in that calling. An
there are just half as many men en-
ployed as stencgraphers and type
writers as there are women.
English trades unions have fror
one to six million dollars each In thei
treasures, while the American trade
unions are practically penniless. an
yet the wages of the American art
san are far higher than those OF nj
English cousin.
Plans to enlist the support OF a
the clergymen of the country in III
movement for the suppression of chill
labor were discussed at a meeting {
ministers held in New York City u
der the auspices OF the Natiapsl Chill
Labor committee.
At Montreal. Canada. a committt