The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-11-03

WOTh hIe Nhah bVsos
The South Australian government
will establish a state flour mill.
The trades in the building indus
try OF Jamaica, West Indies, are
organizing into unions affiliated with
the American Federation Of Labor.
For the months Of June and July
the United Mine Workers OF Ameri-
ca paid s2,20ist as per capita tax
into the 4. +. of l..
Rhode Island is the only state
which provides direct pension
from the state treasury for retired
school teachers
American and French laundries OF
Oakland. Berkeley and Alameda, Cal.
are organizing anti-Japanese leagues.
stockton laundries are also said to
be working along similar lines.
In several London. England print.
ing establishments women are EN-.
ployed as compositors. folders. nu-
merical printers, perforators, wire
stltchers and book sewers.
The Edinburgh, Scotland. coopers.
who are on strike are TO ask trade
uniouists the world over to boycott
the beer of the brewers who will
not agree to the demands OF the
strikers.
After being out on strike for some
weeks. the Kilton. North OF England.
ironstone miners have resumed work
on the terms that were offered to
them before they ceased work The
whole matter is to be submitted to
arbitration.
A movement for the betterment OF
wage conditions among the women
clerks throughout the country Is
gathering momentum at the instance
of the Retail Clerks International
Protective Association.
An industry OF phenomenal growth
in Pennsylvania is tin-plate. which a
generation ago was unknown in the
Keystone state. Now there are over
1900 people employed. and the plate
made last year sold for over 1922 900.
900.
The threatened dispute among the
Belfast. Ireland. iron mouders has
been settled by the acceptance bv
the employees of reduction OF one
shilling per week In their wages. In
stead OF two shillings proposed by
the employers.
The importance OF iron, steel and
tin-plate textiles and silk to the peo-
| pie OF Pennsylvania can he seen
when II is stated that the wage
roll for these aggregated last year
sl44,964,63i, distributed among more
than 100000 people.
A remarkable feature Of the recent
| Wyoming coal miners strike was
that Japanese and Chinese miners
| and laborers made commGa cause
with the Caucasian fellow-workers
II is probably the first time on rec
ord where the Asiatics and whites
stood together 10 a strike.
The coal miners charge that the
Union Pacific Great Northern, North.
ern Pacific and Chicago Milwaukee
e. st. Paul railways are cooperating
TO beat down wages. II is said the
Northern Pacific has 10000 tons OF
coal stored in Montana alone "a
meet just such an emergency as q
strike.
A comparison OF workers in wool
en- mills in Italy, France, England
and the United States shows thai
wage earners of the United States
get nearly three times the pay the
Italian worker. double the French
and 20 per cent more than the En-
glish.
In August 1864 unions. with AZ
aggregate membership OF 1880. ha,
SO per cent without employment,
, This Is the heaviest ratio reported
in any month for years past. II
, July the percentage OF idleness wa
GA per cent and In August 1907, ;
was 5.S per cent
/ The distress prevailing through
(: out the United Kingdom has be Al
made strikingly apparent by repor
!, made by the board OF trade. showin
I England's pauper class to numbe
!, 92S,671. This is one pauper Z
every 3s II the population OF the er
= tire country. The percentage c
n paupers in London Is even large
G being one in 31.3 or more than
= per cent.
a II is reported that the taxpayer
association of Greater New Yor
|. has organized TO fight against a
: wage Increases in the city, and thf