The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-17

to the work of creating a greater de- .
mand for printing bearing the union
label. Contests are held at intervals .
during the year and special label
committee is constantly bending IS
energies in the interest of the label.
The Anti.Asiatic League has receiv
ed letter from Battersea, ~ H., ask
ing for information and all literature
as to the operations of the league in
combating the Japanese, as it is the
intention TO bring the matter more
fully to the attention of the people
of New Zealand.
The expenditures of the American
carpenters union, miners union and
a number of other American trade un-
ions. would each of them show larg
er income and expenditure for bene-
fits paid to members than the combin
ed benefits paid by the labor organiza-
tions of all Austria. II is to be noted
that the Austrian unions include the
railway men, of whom 80 per cent are
! organized.
Declaring that labor unions are do.
! ing q great deal of good work for the
public. Dr. Frank j. Warne, of the
! New York University last month adj
dressed the students of the University
of Pennsylvania. and showed now this
work was being accomplished. La
Dor unions he said, ARE a check to
poverty. Each year they distribute
about S1OOOO,OOO in death and sick
benefits and unemployed incurance."
At the convention OF the Shirtwaist
and Laundry Workers International
Union recently the jurisdiction ques.
! tion was brought up, it being decided
{ that the shirt workers will give up
! jurisdiction over all members who are
employed in stock factories-those es-
Establishments in which shirts and
waists are made and laundered-be-
ing made ready for the wearer in the
one factory. 1t will retain jurisdiction
over all members employed in com
mercial laundries where work IL done
for the Ihblic The employees in the
stock factories will go to the Garment
Makers International Union.
In 1905 two strong miners organiza-
tions were started in Japan, which
carried out several strikes and boy.
colts and had a number OF conflicts
with the police and soldiery. The
government Is now trying hard TO stop
this movement, which, ii successful,
would interfere considerably with the
rapid expansion OF the capitalist sys
TEN, the furthering of which is the
great object of the ruling classes,
At the annual convention of the In,
ternational Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paperhangefa the long
standing controversy between the
painters and decorators and the paper.
hangers, involving trespass upon each
others specially, as understood, was
taken up and clause inserted in the
constitution designed to cover the
matter satisfactorily.
\ step towards consolidating the
trade union movement in France is to
be taken by the miners, who have re-
solved to extend their operations by
admitting men employed in ore min
ing Quarries, etc. In the building
trades, and in the metal industry
, some progress has already been mad
with the amalgamation OF sectional
societies, though there are still some
/ groups which are unwilling to give up
, their autonomy.
, The great strike in New South
t Wales, Australia. is serious. The act.
, ing Premier stated in the legislature
assembly that if the employers and
3 worhmen did not meet and settle
/ their differences the government
, would intervene, ana that the pen,l
provisions OF the industrial disputes
act would be enforced Steps would
also be taken to establish a compul.
E sory Wages Board. He added tha.
the government was determined 20
exhaust every constitutionally author.
lied power to bring about settled con.
ditions