The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-31
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many.
Twenty-three trades are represent
| ed in the membership OF congress.
The cornerstone of the Labor TEN.
pie in Utica, y. y, will soon be laid.
About l3,OOO,OOO work people are
insured under Germanys compulsory
system.
Thirteen states have boiler inspec-
ton laws and fourteen officially in
spect bakery shops.
Mexico City street car men have
received an advance of three cents
an hour in wages.
Women are now engaged in all but
two of the 3O3 gainGul occupations
of the men OF this country.
In Chicago. ILL.,. the school teach
ers have formed a union and have
fifty-rvo delegates in the labor coun-
ell.
Winnipeg, Manitoba Trades and
Labor Council will move to have a
municipal fair wage officer appointed
for the city.
On August :, at Chicago. H., the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
International Alliance will convene.
The amount that may be recovered
for death by industrial accidents in
Minnesota has increased from 5000
to $500.
An organized movement will he
made by the glass workers of the
country to minimize the amount of
machine-made product.
The boast is made by eastern open-
shop bosses that there are some
5000 spies in trade unions who are
directly in the pay of their auxiliary
detective" agencies.
According to recent news from sgd
ney, the Australian Commonwealth
Government has fixed the minium
wage fer all female workers in gov
ernment employ at $500 annually.
The French workmen's pension law
calls for a contribution of about Sl.6O
a year by each beneficiary. an equal
sum by his employer, and the state
! adds a third.
IN Australia even the bushmen and
other men who do odd jobs have a
union Of 10000 members. and "a large
surplus OF money. and own an even
ing newspaper of their own.
Between 5000 and 5000 miners are
injured each year in the United States
some so seriously that they die per
haps months afterward, and others
are so manned that they are cripples
for life
The federation of trade unions con
nected with the building industry in
France has decided the bodies which
for It shall no longer take part in
any building operations connected
with prisons.
There are now affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor 100
international unions, 80 state fedora
tons, 632 city central bodies, 43l
local trades unions and 216 federal
labor unions. making total Of 1,4@S
organizations.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege again has come to the front
with school OF girl farmers. Up TO
date ftty-two OF the fairest daugh-
ters of the state are at the famous
Manhattan School learning the art
of feeding swine and pushing a plow.
A recent convention of the Ohio
Bricklayers, Masons' and Plasterers'
Association by unanimous vote rec
commended the establishment, in some
city yet to be selected, of a home
for aged or disabled members of
the organization.
In line with its efforts to reduce
the number of deaths in the coal |
mines of the United States, the Bu |
reau of Mines will hold national |
rst-aid-to-the-iniured field meet on |
Saturday, September 16, in Arsenal |
Park, Pittsburg. Pa.
San Francisco, Cal, Labor Day |
committee has decided to offer prizes
to pupils of the public schools for
the best essays on labor and the sig
nilicance of Labor Day; also a spe
cial prize to be awarded to the