The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-11-06
There are 2.4l1, 900 unlonists in Ger

Winfred, S. D., has a farmers CO.
operative bank.
There are 5000 leather workers in
New York City.
Out of every ninety-three persons in
Germany oRe is railroad employe'
All the railway workers in Austria
LA are coming into one organization.
Laborers at work on the new tele-
phone line in Pekin get ten cents a
day.
Union cigarmakers are voting upon
the question of having a convention
In 1912.
Free night classes in technical edu-
cation have been started in Stratford,
Canada.
In 1898 the total number of railroad
employees in TINS country was S74,55S.
Last year the total was 1,451 900.
Milwaukee's Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association is to establish
permanent free employment bureau.
, The strike at Braidhurst Colliery,
Motherwell, Scotland. which has last
ed three months, is still unsettled.
Since the recent strike in England,
the membership of the Amalgamated
Society Of Railway Servants has risen
by 5000
Ship Constructors and Shipwrights'
Association of England announces that
its reserve funds now stand at almost
100000.
The Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers will move its headquarters from
Springfield, Ill.,, to St Louis. The or
der has 10000 members.
Daniel G.. Ramsay, well-known
member of a labor organization, is
seeking election as Judge of the Supe-
}rior Court in Chicago.
While the average time for organ
ized labor in Missouri is S.S7 hours n
day, there are ninety-four locals in
st. Louis whose members worked only
eight hours a day.
The label section of the San Fran
cisco Labor Council will cooperate
with the international Boot and Shoe
Workers Union in giving big union
label show in one of the local the
aters.
Despite prolonged strikes in the cen
trail part of the country the coal prod
uct of 1910 exceeded a half a billion
short tons, eclipsing all previous rec
ord.
Representative of the Atlantic
Coast Seamens Union report that the
union shop is an established institu
ton along the river front of New York
City.
Kansas City's Board of Public Wei
fare had $125,00O to spend during its
first year, 1910. and this year has over
5000 900. 1t has free legal aid bu-
reau. lodging house bureau and en-
ployment bureau.
The American Brotherhood of Ce-
ment Workers, at its recent annual
session in Chicago, decided to hereaf-
ter meet biennially on the ground of
eXpediency and economy.
Failure on the part of the British
railway companies to reinstate some
the men who took part in the
great English railway strike is likely
to cause a renewal of the trouble on a
larger scale.
Two hundred thousand dollars has
been paid into Washington's industrial
insurance fund and before January /,
the states compensation commission
expects the fund to reach a total of
$3.50. 900.
The Women's National Trade Union
League has established a strike coun-
Gil" duly incorporated with a fund of
$4,000 to be used for bailiny pur-
poses wherever women are on strike
and their pickets are arrested.
In Washington, D. c., alone there
are 10000 government clerks. In
1908 the total of government employees !
in this country was 2S6,9O2. 1921 of |
them women. The consular and dip /
lomatic service added $4,000.
Peter J. McArdie, general president I
of the International Amalgamated AS /
sociation of Iron. Steel and Tin Work !
ers, has been elected a city council |
man in Pittsburg. Pa, to fill vacancy /
caused by a resignation.
Chief Justice Sir William Meredith
has been appointed by the Ontario
government a commissioner to inquire
into the laws of various countries con-
cerning the compensation OF workmen
for injuries.
For skilled men, such as carptn-
tiers, masons, plumbers, painters, pat
tern makers, printers, the predomi-
nant range of wages in England and