The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-10

BARRIERS of Macon. Ga. have or
ganizcd, and will affiliate with tn,
Macon Federation of Labor
Average wages in Canada have in
creased q per cent in five years
according to the census report.
At the tobacco exhibition Ia Lon
don, England. some women mara
cigarettes at the rate OF l20 in %
minutes.
The Nova Scotia government has
appointed a commission to report on
the feasibility OF old age pensions.
The International Building Ira les
Alliance OF America now has a mem.
bership OF 100000 outside OF New
York City.
The Chicopee Manufacturing Com
pany OF Chicopee Mass. has an.
nounced a general advance in wages
to its 400 employees.
Japanese in some Union Pacin,
mines are drawing as high as 500
a month. and 1t is feared wages will
go still higher
The Brotherhood OF Railway Can.
men has a membership OF 1000 dis.
tributcd throughout the United
States and Canada.
In England female labor has al
most disappeared in agricultural pur.
suits; in Germany it still continues
over per cent of the total number
of workers.
The BARRIERS strike at London
Canada. has been settled, and the
men get guarantee of sl1 per week
with so per cent over sl2 taken in
at a chair.
Boston, Mass, wood. wire, ard
metal lathers' union has now reach
ed the first place in the international
for having the largest membership
of any mixed local.
r. G. Mcpherson, NJ. p, at Van
couver, urges the Dominion and
Bitish Columbian governments to
arrange for British immigrants u
Offset the Oriental invasion.
The government OF Belgium, hav.
ing refused to pass a measure re.
ducing the hours OF labor In mines,
was defeated on vote taken In the
Chamber of Deputies.
AS result of the agitation fos.
tered by the Missouri Federation OF
Labor much valuable legislation was
secured for labor at the recent seI
sion of the General Assembly.
In order that all metal molders
may become members of the o-ganl.
zation, the Iron Moulders' Union OF
North America has changed its name
to the international Moulders' Union.
The Wisconsin Assembly has pass
ed a bill limiting the hours OF rail
road telegraphers to eight day,
and has also passed a law giving
street railway employees 1Ohour
day instead of IL.
The official call has been issued
for the eleventh biennial convention
of the International Brotherhood OF
Blacksmiths and Helpers, which Will
meet in Milwaukee beginning Octo-
ber 7.
Miners of Rock Springs. Wyo.,
have become members Of the United
Mine Workers to the number OF 1900.
Union sentiment is spreading 10 9th.
er coal mining camps on the Union
Pacific system.
The most potent and far reaching
influences at work in the labor w..
are the labor journals. of which
1856 monthly and 70 weekly publi.
cations are issued I'm the United
States and Canada.
During the last year great strides
have been made in organizing the
building trade mechanics OK the
states. The old unions have been
strengthened and many new LEGAL
organizations brought into existence.
State Factory Inspector Dalarey
in his annual report for 1906 tran =
mitted to Governor Stuart, says that
Pennsylvania can show a less pei
centage of employed children under
16 than any state in the union.
President Gompers, of the An.e'l-
can Federation of Labor, states that
the Federation probably will bring a
counter suit against the National
Manufacturers Association, charging
that body with conspiracy.
Electrical workers, machinists and
blacksmiths of Great Falls, Mont,
who went on strike recently, have
signed a contract for five years. All
the smelters' employees are now back
at work, and all are bound by hye-