The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-29
IN THE WORLD
OF INDUSTRY


Wisconsins labor commissioner rec
ommends an eight-hour day for chill
dren
In the Iron Workers Trades, with
222.6O7 workers, the average weekly
wage is s1O.46.
On September 3, c. :. at Chicago,
IL. National Federation Of Postof-
flee Clerks will convene.
The American Flint Glass Workers
Union now has larger membership
than az any time in its history.
In the time of Henry VIII, board
and lodging for servants and laborers
who lived with their employers, ETC.
were valued at cents day.
Many contractors. employers of la
Dor. bankers and business men con-
tributed to the Kansas City, No, La
Dor Temple Building Fund
One of the first acts of the new So
cialist Council OF Milwaukee, Wis.
was 10 order that all city printing
should bear the union label.
The labor Union Party of Arizona
demands a constitution for Arizona
Of the people, by the people, and for
the people who inhabit IL"
A strike of 5000 mechanics in Ger
man shipyards is about to be followed
by a lockout OF $1,000. which will
stop construction on all vessels.
Trades unionists in this country ex-
pend annually $500, 100000, and if it
were all spent for union labeled
goods the labor problem would be
solved
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Missouri State Federation OF
Labor conyenes at jefferson City,
/ Mo. Monday. September 19
For use in manual training schools
a Wisconsin man has patented tool
chest which may be converted into a
work bench by clamping it to the top
OF two desks
Seattle. Wash. teamsters at pres
+ ent are receiving a maximum of $3.50
per day for heavy trucking work and
a minimum Of $3.50. The minimum
working day is ten hours
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men was organized ar Oneonta, y. Y,
in a box car caboose by nine brake
men. April Z, 1883. The brotherhood
has SO lodges in the United States.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and Order OF Railway Conduc-
tors are making arrangements for an
advance in wages on Western roads,
10 be presented about December 20.
They will ask for at least 20 per cent
advance.
San Francisco. Cal, Labor Council
has decided that Immediately after
the primary election its law and leg
islative committee will submit
pledges TO the various candidates for
Office on measures in which organ
lied labor is interested.
Placerville. Cal, carpenters. paint
ers. masons and various others of the
building trades have joined in a move
ment for the eight-hour day in this
city and county and have signed
pledges TO work only that number of
hours
The United States has the only
great National Legislative body in
the world in which there are not rep
resentatives OF the working class par
ty. Germany has forty-three: France
has nfty-fiye Austria, eight-seven;
Italy. forty-four. Great Britain, forty
five: Belgium, thirty-five.
A communication from the Interna-
tional Carriage and Wagon Workers
Union advises that the International
will oppose to the extent OF its power
any transfer of its members to a sis
ter organization.
Canadian unions this year are going
70 make special efforts to turn their
Labor Day demonstrations into label
parades. IL is claimed that it will
be the biggest campaign Of publicity
for union labeled products ever un-
dertaken.
Employees of the Hamilton. Can.
Street Railway Company are making
an effort to break their three years
contract with the company on the
plea that the increase cost OF living
makes it impossible for them to live
on their present rate Of wages.
North Yakima. Wash. journeymen
plumbers who have been on strike for
over two months for a raise in wages
to Sc per day. are opening a general
plumbing business OF their own. Four
Of the local master plumbers have so
far refused the wage demands.
There are now ninety-two labor un-