The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-16
IN LABOR'S REALM
REVIEW OF WEEKS WORK
AMONG THos EW-o LABOR.
ARTISANS AND MECHANICS.

More convict made goods are pro
duced in Missouri than in any other
state.
On July 10. at Chicago. H.. steel
and Copper Plate Printers will meet
in convention.
Colorado state Federation Of Labor
will hold convention at Pueblo. com
mencing August II.
During the last ten months Of 1906
no fewer than S32 miners were either
killed or injured in the mines Of West
| Australia.
The international union Of photo en.
gravers is taking steps to establish a
fund for consumptiye members Of the
order.
Out of the twenty.one bills in the
Oregon legislature. framed in the in
terests uf labor. twelve passed both
houses.
A new organization Of vehicle point
ers has been formed in Chicago. III.
1t is called the Chicago Carriage.
Wagon and Auto Painters Union.
All the leading contractors of onei.
da y. Y, signed an agreement grant
ing the carpenters and joiners an in
crease of % cents day. making
s275
II Los Angeles. CAL Electrical Work
ers' Union has doubled its member
ship within the past six months. The
local is composed exclusively of line
men.
Through the efforts of uniouism ~
Joplin, Mo. during the past six years
wages for painters have increased
from 81 for a tcn-hour day to So FOR
an eight-hour day.
The leader Of the Australian Fed
eral Labor party has expressed the
opinion that sufliciency Of labor for
the Queensland cane fields can he Oh
tanned in Australia.
The National Convention Of the
Amalgamated Association pf Street
and Electric Railway Employees is an
nounced to be held at New orleans,
La. in august.
The Nauonal Farmers Education
and Cooperative Union has organized
its first branch in Oregon. II is eX-
pected that other branches will be or
ganized all over the state.
St. Louis, Mo, carpenters locals
have an aggregate membership esti-
mated at $500, incmdng $500 regu-
lar building carpenters. 700 millmen
and 375 cabinet makers.
The painters strike in Hamilton,
Ont, is ended and the men get 80 and
80 l-2 cents per hour.
When 1t comes to works Of char
ity the union tainters are in the
front rank SiSty-two Of them work
ed gratis on the building of the Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor in san Fran
cisco, Cal.
Angered at the introduction uf Jap
anese into the Atlin. British Colum
bia, district, the miners have determ-
ined to force the Orientals out of the
camp il they cannot be induced to de-
part peaceably.
Building contractors all over the
Northwest are crying for carpenters
and stone masons, plasterers, paper
hangers and ELECTRICAL work(s at
wages ranging from $3.50 to $3.50 for
eight hours work.
Printers of Atlanta, Ga.. are likely
to 90 to Hot Springs international
Typographical Union Convention in
August, prlmed villa a proposition to
raise by assessment "A strike fund run
ming into millions.
The pay Of carpenters in Syra-
cuse, n. Y, Is 40 cents an hour; Eas-
} ton Pa, SO cents; Albany, n. Y,
, 81 l-2 cents ArdmOre, |. T., 40 cents;
Elizabeth, y. j., q cents; Cincin.
natl, 40 cents Bonneville, Ind, 45
cents.
According to decision rendered by
judge In Hamilton, ont, a man who
hires out TO an employer wislOut
making an arrangement regarding
wages is entitled, if "a union man, to
the scale set by the union in his par
ticular trade
Lumber handlers OF Brooklyn, \.
| Y. are now an organized body Their
| application for a charter is pending
and as they may be reckoned a
branch OF the International Long
| shoremens Union, the charter will
have TO come from that source.
Beginning July /, the ten-hour labor
law affecting the cotton mills OF
South Carolina went into partial eff