The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-19

York city is estimated at $4,000.
Hudson, wis, nuionists have or.
gani2ed new machinists union.
The United Mine Workers organi.
zation has a membership of 10000
The Glass Workers Union has 5000
members and 100000 in the treasury.
4 branch Of the Canadian labor
party has been formed In London.
England
The advance In wages of miners
has been general throughout Great
Britain.
Bartenders OF Denver Colo. are tax.
ing steps to organize union to pro.
cure the eighthour day.
BARRIERS Hamilton. Ont. want more
ages and threaten to strike IL
their demand is not met.
The pay roll of the Consolidated
Mining and Smelling company Of Can
ada amounts to sl.75O.OOJ year.
The forty-first annual trade union
congress Of Great Britain will con.
vene at Nottingham on September
:. 1905
| The Farmers Educational and Co
operative union OF America has grown
from nothing to 100000 in five
| years.
Labor organizations of Baltimore
are assisting the policemen of that
city in an endeavor to have one day
of each week.
Apprentices on the Santa Fe road
have been given voluntary increase
of cents an hour in wages for 10
hours work a day
In the early 'fifties the best London
artisans and mechanics who had serv.
ed an apprenticeship seldom got more
than $3.50 a week.
In Austria 5i7 per 1000 work 10
hours or less per day. and 43S from
10 to II hours. Comparatively few
work more than II hours.
A convention of independent shoe
at Lynn, Mass. this month.
Since the national convention of
textile workers of the United States
In 1906 the international body has is
scued 60 charters to new unions.
United brotherhood OF Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers will attempt
| IN unifv tha woua v,aIa p,aLg,, ,ha
eastern schedule the same as the
western.
Trainmen and conductors on all the
railroads east of Chicago will defer
action on their demands for a gencr.
al revision Of wages and wo ai'.E
conditions.
Lord Miner In recent spe'Cn, lent
the weight OF his great nam 20 the
advocacy of "min'mIn wage 10
he fixed by wage boards craItcd by
legs'ation.
The first quarterly meeting cf
the general executive board OF the
Boot and Shoe Workers Union Will
be held in Boston. Mass. tho first
Monday in February.
w. L. McEwen. secretary-treasur-
er OF the Minnesota State Federation
of Labor. is being urged by many
of his friends to run for Mayor OF
Duluth at the spring election.
At conference OF representatives
OF national lithographic organizations
recently held in Washington. ID. c..
1t was decided soon to amalgamate
the allied lithographic trades.
In consequence of dispute over
an agreement between the employers
and the boilrrmakers, the Slb,ir
barometer in the shipbulding trade OF
Great Britain at present shows
stormy"
The Grand Trunk telegraphers are
= taking a pleblscite to discover f the
members will stand together to strike
frr 30 per cent increase and an
eight-hour day from and after March
/. 1908.
Ainalgamated Society OF Carpenters
and Joiners is arranging terms of
agreement to unite the Associated So
ciety with the Amalgamated, which
. will increase the latter by over 5000
: members.
Ben Tillett. the English labor lead
er, has sent word that he is again
to visit this country. He Is now in
Australia. Mr.. Tillett is also q member
OF parliament. He Is a dockcr union
Official.
Newspapers of New Zealand and
the politicians of the country are dis
cussng why 1t Is that the industrial
conciliation and arbitration act has
net been successful in preventing
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