The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-14
IN the WORLD OF LABOR
REVIEW OF The WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AND ARTISANS IN
EVERY LAND.


Naples. italy bakers are ON strike
and q bread famine is imminent
Wages Of motormcn aud conductors
are $3.50 q week in Durham, natal
The Interpretation Of the new eight.
hour law is responsible for the strike
Of thousands of miners In California
affecting a monthly payroll of $3.50.
600.
Under the law Of France. passed in
1851, trade unions h'yc the right to
strike il they register as labor organi.
cations.
The Scottish Coal Mine Owners
Association has lodged with the MIN.
ers' Federation claim for a rcduc.
tion in wages Of l2ia per cent.
Winnipeg. Manitoba, electric street
railway offers an increase OF per
cent an hour to employees who have
been % years in their service.
The attempts OF the French GOV.
ernmcnt to compel the elementary
teachers to withdraw from the trades
councils (bourscs du travaiD has fail
ed
An application was made to New
South Wales Industrial Disputes Court
recently for a board to settle condi-
tions in the Discriminating industry.
\ new union OF Drug Mixers and
Makers has been organized in Mime
upolis, Mimi, and will receive a cnar-
ter from the American Federation Of
Labor.
Wages of the Cleveland. Eng. iron.
stone miners for the current quarter
have been settled. and the arrange
mcnt is that there is to be- a rcduc.
tion of = of 1 per cent
The eighthour work day assess.
mcnt of the bookbinders' union mas
been reduced to ~ per cent for men
working at the trade, and abolished
as to the bindery women.
In the Phoenix shops. Belgium,
wages range from 67ia cents to Sl.35
a day. \ working day begins at 6:3O
a. m. and closes at p. m. with an
hour and half at midday
Lynn, Mass. central labor union re.
Gently decided that it was time for the
organization to go into politics. and
It is probable that the union will push
vigorous campaign next fall.
High hopes are held by both the
lake unions and the various lake
States boards OF arbitration for the
success of the meeting called at DE.
troit, Mich, for the termination of
the present seamens strike.
Structural iron workers employed
In and around Salt Lake City. Utah
have struck for an advance from 81
to $3.50 day They assert that the
wage scale in Salt Lake is lower than
that in any other part of the country.
As regards wages. they are on the
average 75 per cent as high in France
as in England. and SO per cent as high
in Germany as in England, while the
hours of work are II per cent longer
in France and 10 per cent longer in
Germay.
In Hungary there Is AN estimated
trade union membership of l30, 900, or
2S per cent of all the working people.
Austria has nearly 100000, or Is per
cent, while Italy, with its immense
population, contains only 100000. or 6
per cent.
The referendum vote taken in the
Plumbers Union on the proposition to
pay a funeral benefit TO member on
the death of his wife was defeated, not
receiving the required twothirds vote
The total vote showed 4.543 for and
1876 against.
Efforts will be made for the re-af.
fiiation of the Longshoremens OF.
ganization of the Pacific Coast with
the International Longshoremen's As
soclatlon, and also bring about coop
Grafton between the longshoremen
and the Seamen's International Union
For the month of April the Carpen.
ters and Joiners OF America paid in
death benefits the sum OF $2i, i,263. 80 to
lS3 benefciaries. The claims paid
ranged from $50 10 500 each, al.
though the highest death benefits pro
yided by the union is $500
The Bricklayers' unions all over the
country are now voting by referendum
on amendments to the constitution Of
the International Bricklayers' and Ma
sons Union OF North America, that
provide the initiative and the election
of officers for that body * uonula