The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-05-15
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Review Of Work Among Mechanics
and Artisans Everywhere.

The great IrcadWell mine stflke III ]
Alaska has been settled ON the open |
shop basis.
A strike Of railway employees on the /
South Hungarian Railway commenced /
recently.
San Francisco, Cal, building Mate.
rial Transfers Union now has on the
roster 1900 names.
The British Amalgamated Society !
OF Carpenters and Joincrs has total
membership of 67lO3.
The international Union Of Horse
shoers Of the United States and Cana !
da was organized In 1875.
Union labor Is renewing interest In
proposition to establish Labor
Temple In Boston, Mass.
The winona Leather Workers Tn
ion has affiliated with the Minnesota
state Federation Of Labor.
Announcement has been made that
all Italian barber shops In San Fran.
cisco. Cal. have been unionized.
Structural ironworkcrs In Toronto
Can. are demanding an Increase Of
wages Of from 30 to 40 cents an hour.
Members ~ the Painters Union OF
Palo Alto. Cal. are on strike for a
raise In wages from $3.50 to 81 day.
out Of the twcnty-one bills In the
Oregon Legislature framed In the in
terest of labor, twelve passed both
houses.
The New York police now want an
eight hour day sveral hundred OF
them recently met and organized a
union.
All the news from the industrial
battlefield In Germany points To the
certainty that 1907 will he the year OF
grcat lock.outs.
International Photo. Engravcrs I'm
ion has signed fiye-ycar arbitration
agreemet with the National Publish
ers Association.
The California state Convention OF
the United National Association Of
Post Office Clerks will be held in Sac
ramento ON May 30
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.
The lockout of cabinetmakers in
Berlin, Germany continues and some
5000 men are still out, though there
are signs of weakening on the mas.
ters' side.
II Is officially announced that the
total cost OF the American Federation
of Labor's political campaign last fan
In the Congressional Contest was S..
1919
Unless they are granted their de
mands for an Increase from 20 to 81
cents an hour. all timers employed at
the Pullman shops near Chicago, Ill.,.
will strike.
The Executive Board of the Inter
national Bookbindors' Union has de
,ided to inaugurate the eight hour day
throughout the country beginning Oc-
tober l next.
special committee from the Min
leapolis Mimi Team Owners Union
investigating tho feasibility of the
nion going into the feed ~>lsincss on
he cooperative plan.
Strikes affecting the painting and
plumbing trades have been inaugural.
ID in Fitchburg. Mass The union
PAINTERS want an Increase of 30 cents
. day and closed shop.
More attention is to he given South.
'rn States by the American Fedora
ion Of Labor. which is planning to
'uild up stronger labor movement
that section Of the country.
The International Protective Asso.
iation OF the Carpenters Union re-.
emily purchased the armory BUILDING
a Spokane. wash. and will convert II
lto hall for headquarters.
Knoxville tTenn) carpenters have
cached an agreement with the con
factors whereby the carpenters will
sceive 30 cents an hour. nine hours =
ay and union shop coditions.
Women compositors Of Christana
nd Bergen Norway. are 20 be paid
le same rates AS men, after five
ears apprenticeship and the passing
{ a test as 10 being fully qualified.
According to the label report there
ere something like l,25OOO union
iade cigars manufactured in Mime
polls. Mimi. IN March. Practically
1 members Of the union are at work.
The Wisconsin Assembly has pass.
a bill limiting the hours for rail
iad telegraphers to eight a day, and
rs also passed a law giving street
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