The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-21
IN THE WORLD
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH
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EVERY LAND.

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tailor.
Indiana is to have a State Fedora
tlon of Union Clerks.
1 New York lithographers will en-
joy the eight-hour day on January !,
1911.
All the transport workers of the
world are now united under one gem
eral body.
New York kosher butchers opened
a cooperative shop.
/ Ceramic, Mosaic and Eneaustic Tile
Layers hope to establish a universal
apprentice system.
Ottuma, Ohio City Council has
passed an ordinance to have all city
printing bear the union label.
A new union of electrical workers
has been formed at Fon du Lac, Wis.
San Francisco Theatrical Stage
employees union is to assist aged and
infirm members.
Fifty-fve cents day is the aver
age wage paid in American factories
to girls under 16 years of age.
Twelve hundred school teachers of
Luzerne County, Pa, will form a un-
ion.
The telegraph companies OF this
country employ about 10000 persons
This does not include the railroad
service.
Montana switchmen were left in
bad shape after the strike of year
ago, but are said to be as well organ
lied as ever now.
A total of twenty-seven members
of congress who were the most con-
spicuous opponents of labor's requests
have been defeated in the primaries.
Since January i, last, the Brother
hood of Painters and Decorators has
added 1850 members to it's lists,
and the total number now on the
rolls is $4,000.
The Brotherhood of Teamsters is
now known as the Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen
and Helpers.
In this country three times as
many persons, per 1000 employed,
are killed and injured in the course
of their employment as in any other
country in the world.
A campaign to secure a wage in
crease for all the union blacHsmiths
and helpers of New England is being
conducted by International Organizer
w. ]. Dougherty.
tuberculosis is alone responsible
for more than so per cent OF the
deaths among printers, photographers
and pressmen, according to on an
nouncement of the census bureau.
Pittsburg, Pa, United Brewery
Workers have sanctioned plan of
insurance in which both workers and
employers will cooperate and by
which some 600 members OF the
three local unions will be benefited.
The additional wage increase for
the members of the book and job
branch of the Boston, Mass, Typo
graphical Union has gone into effect.
1t was the second and last raise un-
der the terms of the agreement made
last year.
The referendum vote for the bieii-
nial election of general officers of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners will be held throughout
the domain of the organization during
the week beginning the third Sunday
in November.
Chicago, H., union working girls
are to have a loan bank, where in
case of sickness or adversely, they
may borrow funds without Taying in
terest. 1t is the latest plan of Mrs.
Raymond Robins, President of the
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help working girls of the city.
The Board of Education in San
Cal, has decided at the
request of the Labor Council of that
city, to present a Labor Day session
to the pupils of the public schools
next year A review Of the history
and an explanation Of the signidcan:e
of Labor Day will be given by The
teachers.
A closer affiliation between two of
the most thoroughly organized crafts
in this country; that of the brewery
workers and the coopers, was one of
the most important results accom-
plished at the recent fifteenth annual
convention of the Coopers' Interna-
tional Union of North America.
Typographical Union, No. 1o1, or
Washington, d. c., has the distinction
of being the only union in this coun-
try having a health committee COM
posed entirely of practicing physicians