The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-29
IN THE WORLD
OF INDUSTRY
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
MECHANICS AN ARTISANS IN
EVERY LAND.

East Side, New York, bank clerks
have organized
Farm laborers in California aver
age S1.3s O day with board.
ptlhical Union No. 2S, of
Galveston, is the oldest union in Tex
as.
Retail clerks recently organized
union at Ogden. Utah.
There are 400 900 working women
in New York city who are struggling
for living wage.
Six hundred workmen We're killed
at their labors In Chicago, H., during
the last year, according to statistics.
The marine engineers have total
membership on the coasts, lakes and
rivers OF the United States OF 1000.
New York State Council OF the
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
,Ioiners has a membership OF $4,000.
The new South Wales Labor Party
has secured fortysIx seas in the
new election
San Francisco, Cal, bookhinders
have been granted $3.50 a week in
crease. The minimum wage for jour
neymen is $22.5O per week.
Marble carvers In New York City
receive S.. 80 a day. They are among
the best paid mechanics IN that city.
Brewing in the United States EN-
ploys S5.222 persons. The annual net
value OF the output is $6S4,52S,O00.
II is estimated that there has been
a gain OF rs per cent in trade union
membership In Los Angeles, Cal,
since the brewery workers strike be-
gan.
The Granite Cutters Union, Marble
Cutters and Stone Cutters Union,
have organized a district council OF
stone trades for San Francisco, Cal
The United Brotherhood OF Carpen-
ters and Joiners carries the largest
staff OF organizers OF any organlza-
ton represented in the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
The Waters Union Of San Francis
co. Cal, reported at its last meeting
that II has 1850 members on It's rOs-
ter. making u the largest union OF
that craft in the United States.
A general strike OF elevator con-
str7ictors throughout the country IS
threatened as a result OF lockout
in Chicago more than a year and
half ago.
Sixty organizations affiliated with
the American Federation OF Labor
paid in death benefits during the year
Just passed sl,236,243. Twenty af-
filiated organizations paid $731,95
in sick benefits.
Baltimore, Nd, steamftters struck
recently. The demand made is for
81 for each working day OF eight
hours instead Of the present wage
OF $3.50. For helpers the demand is
$2.25 a day, an increase OF % cents.
President James NJ. Lynch OF the
International Typographical Union, is
great advocate OF the value OF ad-
vevtising for the exploitation Of trade
union wares for the edilcation OF
the general public.
The carpenters are given the cred
it for being the originators Of the
eight-hour movement, for in 1869 the
Carpenters Eight Hour League Of
San Francisco, used stamp on prod
ucts OF planning mI.Is in which the
eight-hour rule obtained
The Mosaic Workers Union at San
Francisco Cal, which has been re-
organized several times, has been in
structed by the jurisdictional commit
tee of the Building Trades Council
to disband, and the members to join
other organizations. This will be
done, the members OF the defunct un-
ion joining the cement workers, tile
settlers and marble workers as auXil-
iaties.
Strikes for increase of wages in
the United States have been more
successful than those for any o:her
cause, according to statistics covering
a 25-year period. Strikes concerning
recognition of unions and union rules
entirely failed in 76 per cent OF the
establishments involved.