The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-07


OF the fifteen aldermen on the
board of Poughkeepsie, n. Y, eight
of them are union men.
Twenty-one schools devoted to in
dustrial training in Hawaii give in
struction in lace making.
On May s, at Toronto, Canada, the
| order of Railroad Telegraphers Will
hold its annual convention.
In six years the debt of the Toron'
10, Can, Labor Temple has been re-
duced from $4,000 to $lO,5OO
A measure is before the California
legislature to limit the working hours
for women to eight day.
The Sailors union of the Pacafic
has appropriated $4,000 for the aid
of the striking seamen of the great
lakes.
A cooperative furniture factory is
to be established in Guelph, Can, to.
wards which $4,000 has so far been
subscribed.
Fraternal delegates from Ministers
Associations regularly attend the
meetings of the Central Labor Union
in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Men workers in Japanese cotton
mills earn on the average % cents a
day, the women 16 cents and the chill
dren from to 10 cents.
The three local lodges of boiler
makers at San Francisco, Cal, have
under consideration a proposition to-
amalgamate under one head.
The Vallejo, Cal, trades and labor
council went on record recently as fa'
voring the bill granting power to-
the people to recall the judges.
The state of Oregon has Just enact
ed an employers liability law which
Is far in advance of anything ever at
tempted elsewhere in that line.
Winnipeg, Can, school teachers
salaries have been raised, ranging
now from $500 to $1,000 a year, ac'
cording to experience and service.
The General Federation OF Labor
Leagues of Italy recently organized
mass meetings to protest against the
ever increasing cost of living in Italy.
The Northwest Council Of Carpen.
ters will represent $500 members and
will embrace Oregon, Washington,
idaho, Montana and British Columbia
Drug clerks in Stockton, Cal, have
been organized into a union, the first
organization of the kind in the history
of the labor movement in that city
Iron molders at Knoxville, Tenn,
are out on strike and have good pros
poets for settlement They demand
increased wages and a shorter work
day
Despite Sylvia Pankhurst's asser'
ton that girl workers at Hull, Que.
received as low as $3.50 a week, it is
stated that SO is the lowest wage paid
there.
In France, 1864 persons employed
in the chemical industry, or 80 per
cent are organized. Masters are or
ganized to the number of 1872, or SO
per cent
Canadian railway men will ask that
legislation be enacted making rail-
ways responsible for compensation
for all injuries to employees, no matter
what the cause.
Montreal Can, manufacturers pro-
pose the organization of home mar
ket league" to comprise every Cana
dian industry, and appeal to the patri-
otism of consumers.
The Kansas senate has passed bill
/ requiring all mine owners to main
tain shower baths at the mouth of a
mine, with individual lockers, for the
men employed in the mines.
A strong district council of carpen-
ters, embracing five towns, has been
organized in Wisconsin. The places
represented are Oshkosh, Appleton,
Berlin, Neenah and Menasha.
Carpenters at Lawrence, Kansas,
have increased their scale from 80 to
371a cents per hour through strike,
but failed to get the union shop, with
all of the contracting carpenters.
The union label section of the San
Francisco Labor Council has decided
to adopt a universal label in place of
the different labels now in use and
will ask the council for its approval
of the change.
The New York Building Trades
Council decided to disobey an order
of the building trades department of
the American Federation of Labor to-
unseat the locals of the carpenters
and steamfitters.
The American Federation of Labor
is taking action against the PROPOSE
ton to repeal the act of Congress that