The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-10

REVIEW OF THE WEEKS WORK
WHERE MECHANICS AND AR.
TISANS HOLD SWAY.

with about 1900 members Boston
Mass. Bakers Union is the largest
i'm the country.
one of the latest fads in labor
circles Is the formation of pail
bearers union in AleNandria Va
\ proposition is being considered
e. amalgamatc the several unions |
of electricians in san Francisco.
The Union Pacific AZ Omaha, Neb |
boasts of employing $4,000 men, with
a payroll of s3.OO0OOo year
ST. Paul, MINI, Ice Wagon Drivers
and Helpers Union is already al
work on scale Of wages for next
year.
At Lynn. Mass. there was recently
held convention TO organize a
national Of X uf l.. Shoe Cutters
assemblies
More than forty unions of retail
clerks are under course OF orgaui1a-
tion in as mann cities and towns
of New Engand
Chicago Federation of Labor ha
gone on record as favoring the
government ownership of telegraph
lines.
Shoe stitchers used to work for
30 cents day I'm the year 1907
, many shoe stitchers are able toI
earn 30 cents an hour
Boxmakers and Sawyers' Union,
at is.-ton, Mass, has secured two.
year agreement with a wage increase
OF 10 per cent
I Printers I'm Russia have the great.
! est number of union members to
the total employed, nearly i3 per
cent belonging to unions.
' There are now more than 1000. 00u
persons employed by the railroads
of this countrywide as many as
We're thus employed ten years ago.
I The weekly rest day bill which
provides that all employees shall
have one day OF rest In seven.
was approved By the italian cham.
her OF deputies.
San Francisco. Cal, retail grocery
clerks are maging arrangements 20
socure the application Gf every
such clerk in the city to become a
member of the new union.
Toronto Canada, has been chosen
as the next meeting place Of the
bic e-nial convention Of the Amalgam.
ated Association OF Street and Elec
trio Railway Employees of America
A gain Of 60 per cent in the mem
bership since the meeting in Buffalo.
y. Y. was reported by the lnterna-
tional Association of Car Workers Of
America at its recent biennial con-
vention held AT Rochester, ~ Y.
The Amalgamated Society of Brit
ish Engineers has been Identified
with every movement of the times
looking to the betterment of its
members, and in England the main
body has been especially active in
the political field
The year 1906 was for the German
trade unions a period of extremely
successful work. The aggregate
membership of all existing unions
increased about % per cent and the
financial progress was no less sat.
isfactory
Cleveland. England, lronstone Min
ers' association has decided to
withdraw its suppor, financial
otherwise from the labor party II
, is possible that it will transfer its
4 support TO the Miners group, with
which it is more in sympathy.
At the seventh annual session oi
the New York State Federation OF
= Workingmen, held recently in Syra
} cuse, the Federation pledged its
support to the Womens Trades
{ Union League in its efforts 10 or
ganize the women workers of the
state.
] Flnpino girls employed as tele
d phone operators are very apt anC
intelligent and are rapidly develop
hg most satisfactory service
D They receive, as beginners, a salar!
of $40 month, which is increase,
to twice that amount on their be
. coming proficient.
, An international agreement forbid
ding night work in factories b.
6 women has been signed by Franc
England. Germany, Austria, Italy
&c Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Portuga
, Sweden and Switzerland. 1t will b
;. put in practice in December, 1915
N II appears that the building trade
IA of the district and the Washington