The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-28
IN THE WORLD Of LABOR
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AND ARTISANS IN
EVERY LAND.

ON July %, at Milwaukee, Wis.
international Broom and Whisk Max
crs' Union viii hold it's annual CON
Nrruou
The New Hampshire legislature
passed the weekly pay bill for cor.
paratious employing more than ten
persons
The strike Of ironworkcrs in Lin
colnshirc, Eug, ended recently, 4
settlement being effected.
Calgary Can. will vote ON by.
law to restrict the age OF ucwsboys
TO ten years ana over.
From 10000 to 10000 moro mon
in Chicago are employed in indus.
trial enterprises nov than there
were January 1. 1909
Cement workers in Muskcgon.
Mich. recently secured am advance
iu wages which places their scale
at % cents an hour
\ strike of track laborcrs in Chica.
30 recently followed refusal to
grant them 10 cents day more
pay.
Laborcrs In the Dctriot. Mich. tun-
mel getting from 81 TO $3.50 day.
are ON strike for an increase Of
80 cents
Further reduction In wages have
been agreed TO iu Northumberland.
Eng. in collicry workers wages,
but in Durham the matter is to be
referred to arbitration
During the last II years American
coal mines have killed 22.SiO men.
made at least 10000 widows, and up
wards of 10000 orphans.
Laundry workers In san Francisco.
Cal. arcf ormng laundry syndi.
cate, with the idea of districtius the
city and having but one laundry in
each district.
\ strike affecting about 10000 mon
Is expected 20 begin July / in PITTS
burg and vicinity. through move
Of the L. $. steel corporation to
completely free itself of unionism.
The A. T. of L. had $1iS.G32 Cos
in its treasury thcl asst Of April.
The receipts for April wcra SIS.
i1i.33, and the expense for the
same month sl5,1O3SO.
The unions of Rlovcrs anl the
general leather workers in Germany
have amalgamatcd which brings the
membership of the joint unions up
to 1000.
The builders exchange of Seattle.
wash. which for two years Ms been
attempting to enforce the open shop.
has practically thrown mp the
sponge and quit the fight
In accordance with a recent agree.
ment, hours for the men I'm tho rail.
road workshops In Sweden vii; no
81 per week, reduced by certain
pauses TO 5iia hours actual nofual
working time.
\ meeting OF plumbers. represent
ing all Of the unions In the state
will be held in Milwaukee. Wis. the
first Sunday in August to perfect a
state organization.
Those engaged n the printing and
allied trades of Great Britain hay,
presented a petition to employers tC
grant an eight-hour day or as hour
per week. This probably will be rc
fcrrod to "A conference.
The International Molders' Unior
of North America and the Associa.
ed Iron Molders OF Scotland have
tered into an agreement relative {
the exchange of cards between IN
members Of both unions.
Al a conference OF steel masters
and their employees. held at Swansea
Wales, II was agreed to adopt al
eight-hour day as soon as possibl,
in the whole trade; it is expcctr.
that l,400 more men VIII be en-
ployed in consequence.
Recently all union timers i'm Ii.
tie Rock, Ark, went out On IN,
refusal Of the employers to sisr
a contract calling for $3.50 a day
Reports from the city of Roses are
that the men will make their point
There Is general expectation that
1910, when most of the existing
agreements run out, will see big
fight in the building trades all over
Germany, so the men are getting
THEN organizations thoroughly into
trim.
The men employed In the iron
trades in San Francisco Cal, have
received a reduction of - minutes
per day. This reduces the workday
under the agreement with the metal
trades association to Sla hours per
day.
fhe international Seamcns Union