The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-11
in THE WORLD
OF INDUSTRY
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AND ARTISANS IN
EVERY LAND.


ings.
Fully $4,000 textile operators in
New England are working on snCr:
time.
Longshoremen at Hamilton. Can,
are on strike for an increase from %
TO 80 cents per hour.
Columbus o., street car meu organ.
lied recently, with a membersh'p OF
between 500 or 600
c. p r. telegraphers will receive
an increase OF s. per month. Tie
number Of men interested is about
5000.
Fifteen thousand iron workers have
been granted an eight-hour day at
San Francisco, Cal, and in sur-ounI-
ing towns.
Seven hundred sheet metal worx RS
are IN strike at St. Louis, Mo, for
an increase in wages from Sc II to
62 - cents an hour.
Everett, Wash, laundry workers
are out on strike for 10 per cent
raise, and business is completely tied
up
On July II, at Atlantic City, y. j.,
Glass Bottle Blowers, Association Of
the United States and Canada will
hold its annual convention.
Organized labor c-ntemplates rec
ommt ndins a nine-hour day and a
litteenhour week for women at the
next session OF the Legislature OF
Washington.
In Washington the house commit
tee on labor recently decided ID le-
port fayorably bill creating a de-
partment of labor with a seat in the
presidents cabinet.
The consttutionality of the law re-
qulring railroad corporations to pay
their employees semimonthly has been
upheld by the New York state court
II appeals
A committee has been appointed to
aid in organizing the railroad men
throughout Greater New York There
are about 10000 employees on the
various lines of Greater New York.
Last month in twenty-nine towns
and cities in America new contracts
were made carrying varying increases
of wages and better conditi- ms for
the Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
lea.
Fifty unions have affiliated with
the California State Federation of La
Dor in the last seven months. At the
next convention of the Federation
practically every union in the state
will be represented.
As "a result of a strike. Madison
Wis, carpenters have gained a To-,
centan'hour increase. an eight7hourI
day and the closed shop The scale
for carpenters in Madison is now
81 IL cents an hour.
The general assembly of Louisiana
has just given a decisive victory 70 |
the child labor law by refusing to en-
tertain an amendment having for its |
object the eXemptng of theaters and
nickel shows.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Jciners of America for the
month Of April paid 297 death bene-
fits, ranging from $50 to $4OO aggre-
eating $24,o2O.75. This order has a
total membership of about $lSO, 900.
Four hundred and fifty thousand
wage earners in Greater New York
are receiving wages smaller than $500
a year, the minimum of decency"
fixed by the annual report of the com
mlttee on congestion OF p, p,pulation.
with the exception of the carpen-
ers, labor unions of the building
rades section of the Federated
Trades Council have declared a strike ,
against the Milwaukee, Wis. Brew
'rs' Association 1t is estimated that q,
more than 800 men are idle. +,
Recently the Memphis, Tenn. 2
'tereotypers Union signed up with q,
Employers a new contract, carrying n
N Increase in wages and improved
working conditions. The stereotyp- ~