The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-08
in THE WORLD
OF INDUSTRY
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AND ARTISANS IN
EVERY LAND.

Plumbers OF Rock Island. H., have
estab isAod 4 minimum wage Of 81
per day.
Bridge and structural iron workers
at Cincinnati, o., are on strike for an
increase in wages.
Brewery workers at Dallas, Texas,
have new contract and an Increase
of 81 per week.
Montreal Can, longshoremen earn
80 cents per hour; night work, 35
cents; Sunday work. double rates.
Mil,men in Davenport Iowa, are o."
strike for a nine7hour day, q Il
cents an hour and union conditions.
Pressmen in Ottawa, Can, recently
secured fiye-year agreement with
$3.50 increase to $3.50 for five years.
Feeders and assistants get 81 increase
covering a similar period
\ union Of retail clerks to be affil-
tared with the Retail Clerks Inter
national Protective Union. will be
formed shortly in Los Angeles, Cal.
This month, at Glen Falls, y. Y,
National Association of Machine
Printers and Color Mixers of the
United States viii hold its annual
convention.
Eiehty-seven new unions affiliated
with the International Longshore-
mems Association have been organiz-
ed in the last fiscal year.
The commission provided FOR uhue.
join, resolution of congress to in
vostigate the question of employers
| liability has been completed. The
commission will report to congress
in December.
The International Alliance of The
arrcal Stage Employers now numbers
upward of 10000 members, and is re-
ported to be steadily growing. with
local unions in al the principal cities
Of the country.
Since 1891. when the lnterna;:ona'
| Typographical Union first began the
payment of regular strike benefit
there has been expended in strike
benefits and special assistance to o
cal unions total of So,S3S, ,SG702.
There are throughout the country
about 200 independent unions of hod
carriers. numbering 10000 members
The International organization has on
ly about 5000 members.
\ plan has been formulated at Ce
dar Rapids, Iowa to prevent in fu
ture all local disputes. The plan pro
yides that an differences shall be
submitted to arbitration on their mer
its. and is agreed to by the employ
ers' association and the unions.
j.. At the next meeting of the Inter
national Cooks, Walters and Bartend
ers' Union there will be a determined
fight made by the Bartenders to form
separate international. The ques
ticn has been agitated for several
years.
The Stereotypers. Union and pub
fishers of Sacramento, Cal. have sign
ed new wage scale for one year. 1t
gives an increase OF % cents day.
This makes the wage of journeymen
$3.50 a week and s26.50 for fore
men.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans has passed boycotting resolu-
tions agdnst the order of Elks be-
cause that body constructed a build
ing at Everett. Wash. with one-union
/ labor No union musician will be
allowed to play at any entertainment
given by the order.
Unless there is a radical chance
/ for the better the strike situation In
/ New York. involving the Cloak Max
ers Union. branch of the United
Garment Workers of America, a
rike comprising the entire cloak
making industry throughout the Unit
ed States may be set in motion.
The recent Columbus, Ohio, conven-
ton Of the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants Union al
opted the report of the committee or
the technical school. The school 5
to be located in Chicago. where also
is located the correspondence school
Of the International Typographical Tn.
ion.
It is said that the nraymen's Asso-
citation. at Portland. Ore, is being
forced to fight the union telmste,c
by the employers association Of Ore
gon. The employers association Is.
determined to crush trade unionism
in Portland and has selected the dray-
men and teamsters as the first vic
tins.
Employees Of the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad. at the South Louisville,