The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-10-29

Cincinnati, o.. recently.
The Trade Union OF Garment Work.
ers and the Masters employing trade
union labor in England have favora.
bly, considered the suggestion to-
fight the sweating system by a union
label to be affixed to all garments
made under fair conditions.
Under the name OF the Producers
and Consumers International Equity
Union and Cooperative exchange. a
central body has been formed at Chi.
cago on such broad lines that all
present organizations among the
farmers can afiiliate with 1t.
Secretary Morrison OF the American
Federation of Labor reports that for
the fye months since the close OF
the Federation's fiscal year an in
crease Is shown OF more than 10000
members as compared with the cor
responding months of last year
A vigorous protest is being made
by the Melbourne, Australia, Trades
Hall Council against the Colonial
Sugar Refining Company being per
mitted to import contract labor while
plenty Of willing workers can be OBJ
tanned in Australia for the sugar
fields.
The American workingman has
come to feel keenly the danger Of
superannuation On every side he
hears OF employers discriminating In
favor OF young men, a natural incl
dent OF the speeding machinery
and the Introduction OF new methods
Yet nowhere Is any opportunity af'
forded him for providing himself In
his younger years with a old-age an
nuity. The rising demand for old
age pensions supported by general
taxation is in large part attributed
to this fact.
The shipowners at Antwerp have
again refused to arbitrate their DIFF.
ferences with the striking lockers,
preferring to see the port ruined to
yielding. Their federation has voted
$3.50. 900 with which to resist the de-
mands OF the men and to import for.
eign laborers.
Clgarmakers OF Minneapolis Mimi,
will try the plan OF organizing a
banking system on a small scale. to
handle the funds OF the union and
individual members. They have been
encouraged to this step by the oper.
ations OF loan fund which they
established come time ago
II is widely rumored In Wales
that the government will have a
measure for shorter workday this
session. Leading coal owners con
tend that the eight hours claim would
be very prejudlcial, and that inter
ference with existing arrangements
will be Objectionable TO both sides
At the recent Imperial Navigation
Conference In London. England. a
resolution ws carried that II be a
recommendation from the conference
to the Board of Trade that legisla
ton be introduced whereby all sea.
men be paid two-thlrds OF their wages
due at every port where the crew
may desire such wages to be paid.
At the twelfth delegate meeting OF
the Amalgamated Society OF Engi
neers. recently held In London. Eng
land. resolutions were adopted pro
testing against the action of the gov
ernment in allowing troops of the
British army to be used in the inter
ests OF mine owners OF the Rand
$. A., against The miners out on
strike there.
The Home Secretary OF Great Bri
tain has appointed committee to In
quire and report as to the best
means of securing to persons employ
ed In lime and cement works and
chalk quarries, who work and are
paid by weight or by measurement
the means of ascertaining the correct
ress of the wages they receive, and
secure for them the full amount due
The annual investigation OF the
Bureau OF Labor into wages shows
that In the principal manufacturing
and mechanical industries OF the
country average wages per hour in
1906 We're as per cent higher than
In 1905. the regular hours OF labor
. per week were 95 per cent lower
, and the number Of employees In the
cent greater.