The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-15


20 IL cents day.
Chicago. ILL.,, has a school of in
struction for railway trainmen.
Street car men at McAlester, Okla,
have secured 23 cents an hour.
! Organizations of women workers
are now under way at Logansport
Ind.
Carpenters at Arecibo and Huma-
Geo, Porto Rico, have formed unions.
Kansas City, Mo. bankers recently
secured a reduction OF one hour a
day.
A Woman's Label League has re-
Gently been organized at Lacrosse,
/ Wis.
The Montana State Federation con
vention will meet next month at
Billings.
A State Federation of Labor for
Louisiana was recently organized at
Shrevepo t.
Germany has over 62, 900 carpen-
ters affiliated with the general fedora.
/ tion of Trades Unions.
A city ordinance recently passed at
Denning. Ark, requires union labor
on all street work.
The annual convention of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
will be held at Halifax in September.
Six thousand cotton operatives of
Toronto, Canada who have been ON a
strike, returned to work recently.
Female labor in the United States
even extends to well boring, IL wom-
en- gaining their living in this way.
The Porto Rican Legislature has
passed an act to regulate the hours OF
railroad employees with 16-hours'
limit.
The membership of the steam engin-
GERS international union is steadily
growing and now approaches the
900 mark.
Car workers have successfully re-
sisted the introduction of piece work
on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad.
According to official returns of the
British government out of total OF
12.i31 persons employed at bottling
kaar ai= ara uoman
The first annual convention OF the
National Federation Of State, City
and Town Employees unions will be
held in Boston, Mass, August 2.
Trade unionists at st. Joseph Mo.
are working hard to send members
from their own ranks, as representa-
tives to the legislature and other of
fees
: The total amount invested in Cana
dian railways is $1,171 100000 one
sixth OF the Canadian population owes
its livelihood to these undertakings
The differences between the Nash
Vile. Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail
road and it's switchmen in Atlanta
Ga. will be arbitrated, and the mel
/, have returned TO work.
;. Belfast, ireland, boot and shoe oper
atives are on strike and are being sup
ported by the national union of boo
, and shoe operatives and from fedora
, funds.
Secretary-treasurer w, d. Ryan o
= the united Mine workers OF America
is trying to capture the republican
nomination for congress in the twer
c ty-irst Illinois district.
Severe depression affects the irol
trades of northeast Derbyshire, Ems
Since March about 800 employe
have been charged at variou
}. works, owing to scarcity of orders.
/ The Montana state federation q
} labor Is initiating a petition for sui
nilsson at the next general electio
for the Employers Liability Act, an
an act exempting labor unions fror
c injunctions.
Recent advices from Christiana ar
to the effect that strikes, lockout
and labor conflicts are numerous 1
Norway at the present time, TIL
lumber building, woolen and leathe
industries are particularly affected.
= The Bakers union of San Francis
co, Cal, has appointed a committe
to prepare a recommendation to tn
international convention that is
meet in October to erect home fC
= aged and disabled members of the o
ganization.
The Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn, r