The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-20

union barber shops in san Francisco
Cal.
Unionism In Spain. comprises 80.
9O5 members. distributed through 31'
local unions
About 500 men employed i'm the
brewcrics ot Gothcnhurg sweden
have been locked out.
The dock strike at Belfast. ireland
Is causing factories to close ON ac
count Of a scarcity of coal
In the United States. the state OF
Pennsylvania especially. there is no
union label more counterfeit than
that Of the cigarmakers.
The exhibition % uilon.madc and
union label goods at the jamestown
Exposition, Is said to be one OF the
most complete ever exhibited
The newly Instituted Pittsburg. Pa.
local Of Material Drivers was organic
ed recently. This is branch of In.
ternational Teamsters' Union.
Engineers in the lumber camps of
British Columbia. are receiving $50
To sS5 a month with board. \ few
Months ago they received but $50.
The Amalgamated Society of Brit.
ish Engineers will, after this year.
cease attending the Trades Union
/ Congress, and absent itself for, at
least four years.
Record figures are presented in the
last quarterly report of the Amafga.
mated Society of Engineers of Eng.
land. Its reserve fund now amounts
to s3.6ii,6s5.
The British Workmen's Compensa.
tion Act to all appearances. will have
farreaching consequences rs It is es.
lion lives.
Garden truck bearing union labels
is the latest thing proposed in New
burg. n. Y, farmers In that vicinity
have organized and asked for affl.
iation with the Central Labor Union.
More than 25 new laws in the in.
terest of the wage earners of New
York and their children were passed
by the Legislature and approved by
Governor Hughes during the session
OF 1907.
Chicago. H.. is reported to have
never been so free from strikes and
lockouts as at present. There are
also numerous instances where wages
have been voluntarily raised from 5
to 10 per cent.
A union band has been engaged to
furnish music for the Minnesota State
Fair. and with one exception. all the
local theaters have signed contracts
to employ uni ION musicians the com.
ing season.
The wage Farmers Capital Alliance
a banking institution for wage earn
ers exclusively, with a capital of $lO
10000 and branch office In Chicago
has been Incorporated in Oklahoma
The strike of sailors and fremen In
Rotterdam. Holland, ended recently
with compromise. a joint commits
sion of representatives of both sides
to regulate all questions of wagcs
hours, overtime. etc.
Il In the semi-annual report for the
period ending June 30. Secretary +
G.. Hall of the Cigarmakers' Union
says that 776.l6l 500 union.made ci
gars were disposed OF in the Minneap
oils jurisdiction.
The non-union men who took the
places of the union strikers at the
Erie Railroad shops in Jersey City
n. j., organized strike of their own
recently because of a reduction In
wages from SO to 81 day.
The farmers of the Southwest be
lieve they can Increase the price OF
their cotton this year by combination
They have attempted 1t for two years
but this season a much better organ
lied movement is under way.
In addition to the Bricklayers' and
Masons' International Union the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks is TAX
ing a referendum vote to decide
whether the order shall be affiliated
with the American Federation of La.
Dor.
Plumbers OF Chicago, Ill, have
started movement for the estab,
lishment of home for aged and in.
firm members along lines silimar &c
those in vogue in the international
Typographical Union at Colorado
Springs.
The miners of Pennsylvania have
under consideration plan to form a
labor party and go into politics with
a view TO electing officers who would