The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-09
m the REALM Of LABOR
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eight hours day
The Canadian Pacific engineers and
the company will arbitratc their diff
fercnces
Typographical Union 40 Z Of PITTS.
burg. Pa, has over COO members.
\ local OF the boot and sho, work.
ers' national union has been formed
in Boston.
Farm hands In the Dominion aver
age s2iG0 month and female help
$3.50 month.
4 number Of engineer at Cleveland
Ohio. recently notified vessel manag-
crs that they would rot sign open
shop contracts for next season
An effort will he made in Florida
to bring about the reorganization Of
the Alligator Catchers' union. which
disbanded about year ago
The strike Of the railway workers
in France has terminated by the al.
most compete victory of the workers
Worl, has been resumed
Wages of blast furnace men In Eng
land were reduced u per cent at the
close Of the year. to continue through.
out this quarter The reduction 'ook
place under the sliding scale
An educational session once
month with a professional expert as
/ instructor. will be held hcnccforth by
Boston. Mass. coal hoistiug engineers
union No. -
Building trades unions I'm Mime
/ apolis and St Paul MINI. are making
efforts to obtain wage scales and
working rules which will guarantee
the same conditions to both cities
Under the Workers Insurance
laws there were on the average about
90. 600 workers insured In Stuttgart.
Germany in the year 1907 This mum.
her fell, in consequence Of the de.
preston to 80 600 in 1905
The japanese nave taken up the
maufactur of celuloid two factor
les having been established recently,
one managed by an American, with
American machinery the other by a
Swiss, with machinery from Germany
and France.
Miss Laura \. HecoN has tended
the light in the Santa Cruz (Cal)
lighthouse 70 r'he last % years Du~
ing all that time the light has uHvcr
gone out at night. Miss IIecoX Is
quoted as declaring that she finds her
life neither lonely nor monotonous.
The bakers and cracker bakers al
SAN Francisco. Cal, have appointed q
committee to wait on the proprietor1
Of the local cracker bakeries to adopt
a union distinctive label i'm order that
their products shall ha recognized by
purchasers.
\ movement starting in Chicago
IL has been begun with a view tC
holding protest meetings under the
auspices Of organized labor in ever,
city I'm the United States on ILncoln''
birthday to protest against the sen
tCvce imposed upon Gompcrs Mitch
ell and Morrison. of the American
Federation of Labor
Unemployment is ON the increase II
Denmark as in all other counir' 20
The Federation of Danish Trade I'm
ions states that the reports Of the va
rious federated unions show that II
4 the middle of November out Of 9l,27
, unionists, 1854 were out of work
!. one man out cf seven
/ Every third girl in the state o
Minnesota between the ages Of /
and 20 years is a wage Garner. an
+ every second girl in Minneapolis am
] ST. Paul works for hire. For ever
n girl in the school room, university q
= home. there is a girl IN the factory
II the mill the store the shop.
a Massachusetts State Branch, A. !
OF l.. legislative commute" U'N 'h'l'
5 duced at the state house bills for "a
j. amendment 10 the eight-hour law Z
J. make II effective anti iniuncti)
$, peaceful picketing, workingmen's con
n pensation, direct legislation and min
D. hours in eleven for street car mrn.
y A great national bureau for the en
/. ployment Of labor Is soon to be estal
lished I'm the national capital, wit
branches in all thc largest cities q
e the United States, II the plans Of See
IS retary Straus, Of the department
y commerce and labor culminate as h
k has every reason 20 hope that 'he
will.
4 bill has been introduced in Nh
aogap,b1, at Albany y Y the ptl