The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-12-02
IN LABOR'S REALM
EVENTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL LA.
BoR WORLD WITH ARTISANS
AND MECHANICS

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tributlng its quota.
II Is estimated that the we1 ct|
Great Britain spend s1.25O.OoO year
ON silk hats
The American Federation st, the
Iofficial organ Of the \. r. Of H.. clear.
ed the small sum Of $7257 last year.
The Trades Unionist Of Washing.
ton u. c. devoted to union interests,
has been taken out Of the receivers
hands.
For some time past there has b, N
scarcity of laborers in the tea dis.
tricts and collierics Of India.
Twenty-Five thousand five hundred
dollars a year Is the average - ming
power per locomotive all over Great
Britain
\ free course Of instruction in
steam engineering for members has
been arranged by Boston. Mass. sta.
tionary fircmcns union.
Engine drivers I'm Germany who
have run their locomotives for ten
years without accident are rewarded
by the government.
There will be fourteen members Of.
the Farmers Union and sixteen mem.
bers OF trades unions In the next Tex.
as legislature.
\ bin to provide for state tax to
be used for the aid Of injured miners
ana families of men killed in the
mines will be presented TO the Penn.
sylyania state legislature.
Local unions Of printers have been
started in Trinidad. Barbados, and
British Guiana, and the movement is
spreading all over the Caribbean Sea
and the West Indies.
The ostrich farming industry of
Southern California represents an In.
Vestment of three-quartcrs Of a mil.
lion dollars, aud the annual output of
feather is worth about 100000.
Metal polishers, buffers, platers and
brass and silver workers unions, Of
Boston, Mass, have already begun
preparations for the international con.
vcntion of their organization, which
will be held there next August.
\ new regulation in Spain prohibits
women under % and all children un.
der lG working In trades wherein
there is danger from poisonous fumes
and dust or risk from fire and ex.
plosion.
7 After a trial of eleven weeks the
employment of convicts and local pris.
oncrs at highway building in the ca.
nal zone is said to have produced
revenue exceeding the cost of keeping
the prisoners, besides improving their
condition.
Negotiations which were under way
between the officials of the Iowa Cen.
tral railroad and the International
Association Of Mechanics. have r..
suited in an adjustment of the strike
While the scale Of wages was inyolv.
ed, the introduction of an cirh'-hopr
day was the principal desire of the
worE1Dea, and in this way they have
won victory Several concessions
were made by both sides.
\ leading publicist. basing his ar
gum'n' on German official statistics.
has reached the conclusion tha. thc
German worklngman is now in a po-
sition to spend from 10 TO IL per cent
more for necessities and pleasures
than in 1895. He claims that a sm.
lar investigation in the United States
shows an advance of S per cent in
the same period.
In the American Federation of la.
bor there are now affiliated III Ma.
tional and International labor unions,
representing approximately 27.00O 10.
cal labor unions The number OF
state federations of labor Is SO. and
there are 5il central labor unions
In the aggregate about 100000 men
are members OF the body or are af.
filiated with IT,
\ feature of the recent termination
Of the painters strike in Denver,
Colo, which had been on since May.
1901 was the adoption of clause in
the agreement that no member of the
union will work for any one who is
not recognized contractor. Who is
a contractor shall in each case.
where a question arises, be submitted
To joint committee Of the parties
Interested and the decision shall be
final.