The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-18
IN THE WORLD
Of INDUSTRY
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH ME.
CHANlcS AND ARTISANS IN EV-
ERY LAND.

Twenty-Five hundred employees OF
the Boston 4 Maine Railroad will re-
ceiye increases ranging from five 20
twenty-five cents per day.
Grand Trunk telegraphers are NOV
ing for an increase of pay, following
the general increase of s. per month
granted by c. +. h. operators recently.
At the next meeting of the legsla-
ture in the state of Washington or.
ganized labor will recommend a niu1-
hour day and j4-hour week for wom-
en-.
According to the annual report of
the Cigarmakers' International Union,
the membership now totals $1,000.
This is a gain of 1000 tor the last
year
At the quarterly meeting of the EX-
ecutive Council of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor an increase of 2?3
more unions than existed last Decem-
ber was reported.
The grand total of all Federated en-
plOyes at present is 370,065. as against
3OG,14l in 1907, an increase in the
two years of about $4,000 persons, or
about twenty per cent
A union labor party, organized along
the lines of that in San Francisco, will
be formed at Los Angeles Cal, and
will seek the same control of the city
government that the unionists have in
San Francisco.
\ provision will be made for an
eight-hour day and So minimum
wage in the amendment governing
street railway franchises proposed by
the charter revision convention of San
Francisco, Cal.
The first public manual training
school in the United States was estab-
lished at Philadelphia Pa. in 1885.
Now there are such schools in 671
cities of more than 1000 population.
Trouble is ahead throughout the
north and east in connection with the
fight being made by workers on ladies'
garments to establish sweatshop con-
ditions and force recognition of the
right to organize.
The Garment Workers Union of
Boston, Mass, has recently signed an
agreement giving the members an
eight-hour day, increasing wages from
ten to thirty per cent, with Saturday
half-holidays all the year round.
During the ii years preceding the
Courrrieres mine disaster in 1906 there
was not an explosion in France in
which there were more than nine men
killed; in the Courrieres explosion
nearly / 200 men were killed.
Every labor union in California, en-
cept those in Los Angeles will be
asked to contribute to the fund to aid
the strikers in Los Angeles. It is esti-
mated that between $4,000 and sl2,-
900 per week will thus be raised
The deepest coal mines of the Unit
ed States are not more than 22,OOO
feet, while in England levels are be-
ing developed at depth of $500 feet.
In Belgium miners are working 4,OpO
feet below the surface.
1t is estimated that there are 20
OOO. 900 American laborers who have
no direct voice in the deliberations OF
the Presidents Cabinet, and as a con
sequence the many questions that in
volve the welfare of the wage work
ers do not receive the government at
tention they deserve.
Extended and detailed list of EN-
pigments prohibited for children ap-
pear in the legislation of New York,
North Dakota. Ohio, Oklahoma and
Pennsylvania, and in number OF
states new laws are added prohibiting
night work.
In New York state there are Al 1923
factories The largest number of per
sons employed at shop work in these
factories at any time during the year
was 1,13S, ,965. while the office forces
in the same establishments numbered
80 .625. making a total of l.1S9,590 EN-
ployes.
The latest semi-annua report OF
the international Association Of Ma
chinists shows tho receipts from all