The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-01-23
r4E WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Review Of Week Where Mechanics
and Artisans Hold Sway

In Austria the trade unions have
1852 members in a population of
1s,6OO,OO0.
Seattle, Wash, city officials have
promised that the eight-hour law Will
be enforced
Bricklayers at Minneapolis, MINI,
will ask for an increase from S5 to
90 cents an hour
A Walters Union has been organ
lied in Pasadena, Cal, with char
ter membership OF IS.
Montreal Iron Moulders Union is
the most powerful of ali the labor
organizations in Canada.
Leather Workers on Horse Goods
Union reports 80 label shops estab-
lished in Chicago with union condi-
lions.
Chicago. H., Bricklayers and stone
masons Union has sought TO affiliate
with the Chicago Federation Of Labor.
international Brotherhood Of Elec-
trical Workers has moved its hcaf-
quarters from Washington, d. c., 10
Springfield, ILL.,
The length OF working day In 1928
varied from ~ to 10 hours. The New
England mills generally ran lS hours
a day the year round.
The 100 principal trade unions OF
Great Britain have membership OF
1.643.64O. with an aggregate income
Of s1O.36S, 900 annually.
The Flint Glass Workers lnterna-
tional Union, one of the strongest OF
all. has reduced It's strike assessment
from Z to 4 per cent.
Many unions in Great Britain pay
out -bfwork, sick. funeral, superannua'
tion benefits. and in addition, have
special fund to provide homes, etc.
Brewery workmen in about forty
breweries in Cincinnati, o., have de
cided to take nine hours day and
free beer In preference TO eight hours
and no beer.
The Good Roads Association OF
Minneapolis has gone on record as
favoring the use Of convict labor IN
the work OF improving the roads
throughout the state.
Il IL said that an effort Is to be
made to spread the strike OF the strrc-
tural iron workers from New YORK
TO other large cities. The demand Is
S. instead OF $3.50 per day.
Boston and Hartford Plumbers
Unions members began work January
ON an increased wage scale. II Is
81 day in both cities, raise OF %
cents a day In Boston and 80 cents
day in Hartford,
Fifteen yiolato,s of the Ohio chil1
labor law have been arrested In C'n'
cinnatr. District inspectors are push
ing the crusade against employers
who have been working minors In vi
olation of the child labor law.
Omcials OF the United Trades ami
Labor Council of Cleveland, o., have
taken up the study OF the state laws
that they may be better prepared TO
act when cases against the council
come up in the courts.
President John Mitchell OF the
limited Mine Workers has received
official notification from the directors
of the Exposition at liege, Belgium
that his book. Organized Labor has
been awarded gold medal of the
first class.
The Chicago Ull) Carpenters EX
ccutive Council has decided to De
mand an increase of cents an hour
I'm wages when the present agreement
with the contractors expires. March
81. The present scale for cornenter'
Is 80 cents an hour
Nine hundred school teachers IN
Schukllliu county, Pa. are moving 10
form a labor uniCu Some teachers
have not received their pay in moh'h'
and by organization 1t is expected "a
receive better treatment at the h2nds
of the school boards.
In France the senate has voted the
credits asked for by the finance min
lister to enable him to introduce the
ninehours' day in the state factories
SO that a strike of the tobacco work
o. in all the state factories has nov
been ayerted.
Speaking Of the attempts to resn
late and control immigration, Com
missioner Cargent says; mo feature
of the law has proved so difficult o.
enforcement as that passed for the
protection OF labor in this country
from unfair competition by aliens"
Italians and other foreigners EN-
ployed at the gates and crossing
along the entire West Pennsylvania