The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-11

1900.
There is no chlld-labor law In Japan
and some very young children are
worked The mills do not want to work
any under 70 as Il does not really pay
but in order to get help they very Oft
N have TO take the whole family, and
80 a good many younger children are
employed.
No charter for local council Of
tho National Structural Building
Trades Alliance will be given TO any
unions in Boston Mass, without the
sanction OF the unions Of the Building
Trades Council Of the Boston e. l.. T.,
whose lnternationals are affiliated
with the alliance.
The 500 station agents Of the y Y,
y. H. 4 H. Railroad are organizing
a union 10 better thcIr conditions.
They have been about the only unor.
gaulzcd force Of the system. and have
not secured benefits equivalent to the
advances made In other lines. they
say.
Lincmcn and cable spliccrs are now
rated as laborors by the Boston. Mass,
Ciyn Service Commissioner. com
mittco Of the Electrical Workers Tn
ions will ondcavor to show the Com
mission that the trades are extremely
skilled ones and should be given a
skilled rating.
Tho Stokes bill known to organized
labor as the employers liability act,
has been Killed and may not be heard
Of again at this session Of the Mime
sofa Legislature. The bin was design
ed to protect workmcn engaged in the
various building lines engaged in haz-
ardous occupations.
The antl-pass law conforming with
the Federal anti.pass law has been
passed by the House of Representa-
tiycs OF the Iowa Legislature by a vote
of 81 to 20 after the measure was
amended to passes walking delegates
Of labor organizations
Seventeen unions Of the building
trades in Washington. D. C., are about
TO form n central body to be known as
the Building Trades Mechanics ALI
ancc This alliance will absorb all the
structural trades. alliances and the al
lied building trades. The primary oh
icct is to combat the open shop.
II Is reported that all arrangements
b have been made between officers OF
the International Association of Ma
chinists and those Of the international
Association of Allied Metal Mechanics
for consolidating the two organizations
under the name Of the former The
Der 2l.
The Fifty.Ninth congress passed q
law limiting the hours of railroad mer
to lG out Of "a. and telcgraphers. /;
hours These hours conflict with
statutes In some of the states; for in
stance, Maryland has an eight-hour
telegrapher day, and now claim ha,
bccn made that the new law Interfere
with states rights.
When the season Of navigation oponi
this year the members Of the LAX,
Scamon's aud Longghoromcn's Unionl
viii refuse to work with any but uniol
men. Agreement Is said to have beer
entered into between the unions whicl
will mean that the the longshoremel
viii not unload vessels carrying non
union crows and vice versa
The Union Carpenters Hall Associa
tion of Oakland, Cal. has purchased
% lot for $4,000. Six OF the stanchcs
unions In Oakland are represented Il
A., the association II is the intention q
A., the corporation to proceed at one
, with the vrcction of thrce-stor
, frame building containing halls an
=. banquet rooms, The cost OF the stru,
ture will be $4,000.
4 The Prussian authorities have $
u improved the appliances needed 4
f coal mining and have adopted so man
4 precautionary measures TO protect IN
o lives OF miners. that while. on the a,
il erago, 51l miners out of every millio
annually lost their lives during the d,
/. cadc Of lSSllS9O this record has bee
q steadily reduced until in 1905 only .
- persisted from explosion ly fire-da
3. Ice wagon drivers OF St Paul. Minn
II will ask for the following scale ,
!. wages for 1907: Drivers for summc
months, $50; helpers. s75; winter W,
+, ges for all men engaged IN hauling ic,
n 500; workmon who peddlc one load G
4. lee ON Sunday shall receive S. a mont
extra. iCphOuea mon a.. . ,,.,..., d