The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-26
IN the WORLD OF LABOR
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AND ARTlZANS IN
EVERY LAND.

Seattle. Wash. teamstcrs have or
ganizcd and are making rapid gains
in membership.
Striking granite cutters at Vracv.
Tex, have won their demands for a
raise from 1895 to $3.50 a day.
Full time will begin at the Grand
Trunk shops, Point St. Charles. Que
Plumbers at Davenport, la, after
strike advanced their wages from
$3.50 to 81 per day
Sawsmiths international recently
chartered a new union at Vancouver
B. c.
Albany y. Y. tcamsters, through a
strike, recently. enforced their de.
mands for increased wages and i'm.
proved conditions.
A law was passed recently in
Michigan making It unlawful for
women and minors to work more
than nine hours day.
About 1000 cabinet makers are on
strike or locked out in NuremDut.,
Germany with good prospects of win.
ming.
There are made daily in England
about 55,OOOOOO pins, two-thirds OF
them being manufactured in Birming-
ham.
Pending the outcome OF confer
encc between mine owners and min
ers the 5000 striking miners at Pitts
burg Kan, have resumed work.
owing to dull trade in the build.
ing line there are said 10 be rrun.
500 TO GOO joiners idle in Edinburg,
Scotland.
The next state conference of the
representatives Of the California
bricklayers' unions will be held in
Sacramento next November.
Special efforts will be made by IN,
brotherhood of Carpenters TO build
up n strong organization OF building
trades unions at Fargo. y. u.
According to figures just published
there wer" 5,3i3 persons affiliated
with the organized labor movement in
Servia at the close OF 1907.
The Netherlands Federation Of
Trade Unions has now q unions fed.
Grated. with total membership ,f
36,G71 at the beginning OF 1909.
The record of cotton picking in the
United States is probably held by
Miss Margaret Montgomery of Still.
water. Okla. One day last fall Mise
Montgomery picked 700 pounds of cot
ton.
Tho Berlin Trades Council has had
TO record n considerable loss in mem
bership. which at the end of 1909
stood at 1000 at the end of 1907
at 235,9SO. and has now further gone
down TO 223,SOO.
Memphis. Tenn. union bakers have
taken very favorably 10 the new Mis-.
souri, law regulating backshops as 10
sanitation and other features, and II
movement is on foot among them 10
create a demand for a similar law in
Tennessee.
The Sacramento. Cal, labor temple
association has amended its laws 70
admit OF the selling OF 90 per cent
OF the coroprate stock instead of 10
per cent. The vote represented 49,
352 shares for the amendment, with
361O against.
In the Maryland penitentiary the
making OF shirts by convicts mao
reached enormous proportions. From
figures obtained from reliable
source 1t is shown that for a period
of six months there was produced in
that institution 19O33O dozen of
shirts.
Governor Hadley of Missouri has
signed the woman's nine-hour law
The law regulates the employment
of girls and women in factories, res
turants and other such places. En-
ployment is limited 10 nine hours a
ga. and prohibits their employment
later than 10 p. m. or earlier than
a. m. ~
One OF the most important meas