The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-22
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Among the Various Bodies Of organ.
ized Labor.

Agricultural workers In Germany
show a total of 9s2 societies. with a
membership of 22l, ,913.
Eighty-fve women bootbacks are .
numbered among the Industrial WORK
ers of the United States.
Between January !, 1901, and Jan
uary /, 1906, there were POS strikes
and nineteen lockouts in California
Union blacksmiths in the mountain .
and Pacific coast states are agitating
for an advance in wages to taRe cf. .
feet in the spring.
Printers Of Oakland, Cal, have
formed an organization known as the
Franklin Association Of Alameda
County and have filed articles Of incor.
poration.
At present Wisconsin Is said to be
the only state in the union where
any efrOrt is made at official compi.
lation of Industrial fatalities and acct.
dents.
Il now seems assured that co
operative agreement will be entered
into between the Tennessee Fedora.
tion of Labor and the State Farmers
Union.
A salesladies' union will be organ
lied in San Francisco, Cal The 10.
cal will be affiliated with the interna-
tion Retail Clerks Protective associ-
alton.
Iourncymcn Horscshocrs' Inter
national Union has raised the per cap
ita tax to % cents a month and adopt.
ed the stamp sytem fOr the payment
of dues.
President Gompcrs recently stato'
that there are under consideration con-
tracts for the employment Of thous.
ands of Chinese on the Panama Canal
work at wages as low and ga cents
day.
During the past three months the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
have added one local every week 10
their organization. and. notwithstand'
ing a number of strikes have increas-
ed their funds materially.
Boston. Mass, Journeymen Tailors'
Union recently celebrated the ccnten'
NAL OF the formation of the first
union OF journeymen tailors in that
city and It is claimed by some, the
first bona fide trades union formed on
this continent.
There will be no strike of Mexican
Central conductors, who announce that
10, hag thn fnprnnup In
wages which they demanded, making
the pay equal to that Of conductors
in the United States. The increase
amounts to 10 per cent.
A movement is well under way by
the Texas Farmers Union and the ma
tional organization as well, to cstab-
lish a system Of banks to be conduct.
ed in connection with the system OF
warehouses now being established
throughout the state.
Labor leaders of the New England
states are greatly pleased by the atti'
tude Of the General Association OF
Congregational Churches, which has
adopted resolution looking toward
utlN'l Nllhf'l NAAllNlllk ''N"'Nh NAN
church and organized labor
From July 2G, 1901, to July %, 1900
New York typographical Union No
G. better known as big G." has paid
families of deceased members SIC.
OiG It has also contributed toward
the maintenance of the Union Printers
Home as its share during the past ten
years the sum OF $71.Sse.
A bill TO prevent strikes In all pub
lie utilities such as street railways
coal mines, steamship lines and other
steam railways Jhas been introduced
in the Canadian parliament The bill
empowers the Minister of Labor to or
der an investigation and see that IN,
trouble is settled without resorting 10
strike.
Judge Kohlsaat Of Chicago, nj, act
ing as arbitrator in the jurisdictionaI
dispute between the steamntters and
the plumbers has handed down a De
Cision in favor of the Normer body
holding that the installation o' the
compressed air tubes for cleaning pur
poses came within the province of that
organization.
Union electricians employed by tel
onhonc companies on the Pacific coast
have been granted substantial in
crease in pay through an omicahlC
agreement with the companies inyoly
ed Hereafter the men will receive d
fiat rate Of $3.50 for an eighthout
day. This is an Increase OF 30 cents ,
day for some and 81 for others.
At the New England label confer
cncc Of Cigarmakers Unions, held a
Portland Me, II was shown tha
there IS but one non.union cigar fact)