The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-06
IN THE WORLD
Of INDUSTRY
REVIEW OF THE WEEK WITH ME.
CHANlCS AND ARTISANS IN EV
ERY LAND.

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! convene.
Plans for active political labor carh-
paigns in all the state OF the union
we're recently made by the executive
council of the federation.
The income for the last year Of In
/ ternational Cigarmakers' Union was
ss24,49s.s7. Benefits paid out for the
years were s553,SS2.34.
Organized labor contemplates re-.
ommending a nine-hour day and IL
hour week for women at the next ses-
sion Of the Legislature at Washington.
Thousands OF iron, steel and tin
workers in the United States will con.
tribute / per cent OF their earnings 70
aid the cause OF the strikers in the
sheet and tin divisions
| Electrical workers OF Minneapolis,
Minn.. nave discarded the working
/ card and substituted the working but.
ton. |, is issued monthly and the
color is changed each month.
For the tenth consecutive time, Jo.
seph y Weber OF New York was nom
mated for the presidency or the Amer
lean Federation OF Musicians. by the
National Convention OF that body at
Cincinnati, o.
The number OF fatal accidents TO
wage earners in this country for the
last twelve months was between 30
0UV and 30 0OU, according 70 the United
States bureau of Labor.
Stone cutters Of Cleveland. o., went
on strike April l for SO cent raise
and an eight hour day. The 200 mem
bers, after benig out less than a
month, won their fight.
Late reports from the building
Trades department of the American
Federation OF Labor showed that
twenty internationals, tweDtythree
state councils and l53 local councils
were affiliated.
On May $ organized labor dedicated
in Kansas City a labor temple, said
70 be the finest structure of the kind
in the west More than 10000 per
sons took part in the ceremonies.
Garment Workers Union OF Boston
Mass, has sined an agreement Civ.
ing the members an eight-hour day
increasing the wages from 10 to 80 per
cent, with Saturday half holidays the
year around.
The improved conditions OF the min
ers of Europe are due to judicious
mining legislation for the safeguard
Ing OF the lives of the workmen, and
this legislation has been the outcome
of the work of government testing
stations.
The Labor Temple recently opened
at Fourteenth Street and Second Ave
nue., Manhattan, by the Presbyterian
department OF Church and Labor, has
proven itself to be one OF the most
successful things ever undertaken by
/ the department.
According to statistics issued by the
United States Labor Bureau, there are
6,O0O,O 900 wage earning women in this
country, and they are receiving less
wages and work longer hours N the
same Industries than the men.
Union labor got about everything it
went after in the Ohio legislature. eX-
cept a non-partisan judiciary law and
one limiting the work of women 10
eight hours a day. Twelve laws We're
passed for the benefit OF the working
man.
The cost to English employers o: in
surng their workmen against acct
dents in 1908 amounted to SlO,Oo0.0OO
Under the compensation acts the en-
ployers do not themselves pay out the
money 10 their men in case OF acci-
dent That is done by accident insur-
ance companies that bond the employ
ers.
BY resolution at the St. Louis. Mo,
Farmers Educational and COOPERATIVE
Convention. it was decided that here
after organized labor and organized
farmers would work together in pre-
serving the rights and liberties of each
class. The farmers have a member
ship of 5000 900.
4 most unusual situation occurred
in a recent strike Of iron workers IN
Boston. Mass. The strikers places
was taken by III non.union men. Aft
or some persuasion this non-union
force quit work and marched in a body
to the unions office and applied for
membership.
The latest semiannual report of the
International Association OF Machin-
lists shows the receipts from all
sources for six months to be s2111l1.-.