The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-24


work on the szechurn-Hepch, China,
railway.
Thirty.eight cents is the daily wage
rate for blach3miths in Shanghai
China.
1 President Legula, OF Peru, has ,ign-
ed what is known as the Peruvian
employers liability law.
Twenty.seven states enforce sani-
tarv rules anl require sufficient toilet
rooms ior the sexes in industry
Department store chauiteurs, of Pro
yidcnce, r. l., have secured an in
crease Of SO per week.
Cleveland, Ohio, contractors nave
aerccd to the demand of bricklayers.
that 10 days shall constitute a
week.
The daily working time has been
reduced from ten to nine hours in
the glass factories OF Thurineia, Ger
many.
Hoisting engineers at San Francis
co, Cal. will have their pay increas
ed from 81 TO SO per day.
San Jose. Cal, institutions that EN-
ploy members of the culinary crafts
have been thoroughly unionized.
On August :, at Niagara Falls, y.
Y. United Power and High ENplo-
sive Workers OF America will hold its
annual convention.
At the next Dominion general elec.
ton, the labor party will have candi-
dates in the field in every important
city in Canada.
The printing trades Of Vancouver,
B c.. will publish "A siX-page daily
newspaper during the "Made-in-Can-
ada" Fair in that city
During them onth of May the free
employment bureau conducted by The
/ city Of Portland. Ore, secured posi-
tons tor 2,l64 men and women.
Boston Mass, freight handlers are
asking for S2.25 and nine hour day,
, but no actual threat Of strike Is
made BY their unions. They now get
s91t
Bruce Walker, immigration Cam
missioner of Canada, states that 30
O00 harvest hands will be needed Tor
tins years Western, Canadian crop, ac-
cordng to the present estimates.
\ child labor bill recently passed
the Tennessee legislature fixing the
age limit of factory employment al
=. fourteen Years, and only excepting
agriculture and domestic service
The annual report of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen shows
that more that 2.O0O,O0O was paid in
death md disability claims by the
organization last year,
One of the early morning sights
in Boston, Mass, is the small arm,
OF women farm laborers starting
ont for thcir days work on the truck
farms or gardens in the suburbs
In 1909, - per cent of the tota
value Of products of the state ot
Delaware was made in Wilmington
and 80 per cent Of the average
number of wage ea>ners was em
plo,cd there.
The organization committee OF the
| Minneapolis, Mimi, Trades and La
Dor assembly has Just organized ;
Shoe Gcp5ircrs' Union in aailiatiol
with the National Boot and Shoe
| Workers. Union
stationary rircmen and steam "ngi
ncers employed by all the Ninnear
| oils. Mimi. hreweries have been sue
es,lul in their efforts to renew thei
agreements and secure an ncreas'
! in pay.
: rhe International association O
Machinists has recently reached al
agreement with the Michigan Cen
tral railroad company for an in
crease N wages. the rate now beln'
81 - cents per hour, flat rate
Tie wool growers Of the Northern
Rocky Mountain regions have adopt
81 the method of selling at wholeSal
direct to the consumer. They have es
auhsncd large warehouses at Chi
caco anl Omaha, 10 which the Voc
IS .ouSigNed.
{ The engineermen and firemen o.
the Great Western railway OF Grea
Britain are protesting against IN
new conditions of employment in
= posed on locomotive men. A styik
has been threatened.
n The Chicago, H., Swedish Prin
d ers' Union has secured an increas