The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-17

The proposition to establish an in
tcrnational headquarters was defeat
ed by the International Seamen's
union.
The Michigan prison labor commits
sion will recommend the displace-
ment from the prisons of contract
labor.
The British boilermakers' dispute
looks as though at last it were on the
verge of complete settlement.
For more than year the Lake
Seamens strike has been in progress
and now the Lake Seamen's union is
fighting for its life.
Fines of S75 and costs were paid
by a Berwick, Pa, manufacturer for
employing girls too young in silk
mill and concealing the facts.
Employees of the government print
office and many of those in the bu-
reau of engraving are organized.
Nearly LOO agreements between
employers and their employees affect
ing directly 100000 working people,
are in force in the United Kingdom.
The thirteen local unions of brick
and structural iron workers of Oak
land, Cal. inaugurated the eight-nour
day in all ornamental shops Janu-
airy 1.
About two hundred Pullman car
porters met in Chicago recently to
form a union along the lines of labor
unions generally. with death benefit
in addition.
During the past year the rree EN-
ployment agencies conducted by the
state of Ohio secured positions for
nearly 10000 unemployed, at a cost
of 2S2 cents per person placed.
The International Association OF
Machnists points with considerable
pride to the progress made by the Pa
cific coast branch of the association
during the past nine years. For in
stance, the machinists of San Fran
cisco and vicinity were working ten
hours a day for 800 days in the year
1900. the usual four holidays being
granted them. The average wage was
So per day, with time and a quarter
and time and a half for overtime.
Conditions were whatever the en-
ployer said they would be. Ten years
later. after nine years of progressive
effort, the substantial gain of 80
cents per day, 5O-cent increase in
o, ertime, the eight-hour day and five
additional holidays was obtained
Toronto. Canada. union plumbers
and steamfitters are conducting a Sc
ries of lectures of a technical nature
the modern science of
plumbing and steam heating.
Amendment to the child labor laws
of Minnesota will be sought this win
ter in an effort TO make them more
and also to give the state
labor department more power in their
The Woman's Trade Union league
Of England, organized in 1874, has
total affiliated membership of about
lS5. 900. The model for the first wo-
mans trade union was found in Amer
ca.
MANY attempts have been made in
he past to organize the vast army Cf
,alesgirls in the large stores of Great
81 New York. but so far each attempt
has failed. But now another attempt
/, to be made by the Women's Trade
Union league.
Cleveland Ohio, is TO have $780,
700 office building for the exclusive
use of organized labor. 1t will be five
stories. containing an auditorium. ten
odge rooms. offices. bowling alleys,
rooms. gymnasium and a read
ng room.
President John Fitzpatrick. of the
Chicago. H.. Federation OF Labor, ap-
pointed a committee of twenty-five
to devise ways and means
VI uniting the voting strength of he
of Chicago in the coming
campaign.
The Right Hon. John Burns. presi-
lent of the labor government board.
he first workingman member of the
abinet of England, and recipient CT
salary OF $4,000 per annum, has