The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-21
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LABOR NOTES. 3
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organiln a provincial tedaeation.
Printc,, at Meridian, Miss, have
one hundred Per cent organization.
Peoria, H., printers have obtained
an increase OF 81 a week.
Plastcrors at Savannah, Ga, have
gained au increase of 80 cents a day.
Wages of union men generally
have increased 20 per cent in less
than three years at Waco, Tex.
A number of unions are actively
worhns to form central body in
Creston Iowa.
Practically every wage Garner at
Barre, Nl with one exception of the
city employees, are members of a un'
ion.
On May -, at Omaha, Neb., Amer
lean Federation Of Musicians will hold
its annual convention.
! Emporia, Kan, has a street fund
which is to be applied for the employ
mcnt Of the unemployed
Cutting Die and Cutter Makers at
Haverhll and Brocton, Mass. have
gained q shorter workday after a
strike.
A large number of bakers OF Buc-
nos Ayrcs, Argentina, have gone on a
/ strike and the price of bread has gone
up as a result.
| Hamilton, Kan, firemen will get =
! - per cent salary increase and city la
borers a two cents an hour increase
Union stoamtitters and helpers at
Toronto. can, have reached mem
bership of 900.
Perth. Scotland, salmon fishers
want raise of wages, which have
/ for thirty years been $3.50 per week
of 66 hours.
At the international Convention OF
the Molder's Union, to be held next
May, a mortuary benefit plan will be
considered
The strike of the Illinois Central
Railroad shopmen at Waterloo, Iowa,
Still continues and prospects indicate
/ that the men will win out.
Durin9 January the general office
of the United brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners of America paid loJ
death claims, aggregating $25,GSo
A bill has been introduced in con,
gress requiring that all engineers and
enginemen employed by railroads en-
gagged in interstate commerce shall
be licensed.
The San Francisco, Cal. Labor
Council will consider the advisability
of united political action on the part
of organized labor of san Francisco
and California.
Miners in the Linton, Ind, field
adopted resolutions in favor of a six,
hour day, and an effort will be made
to get an Endorsement of the PROPOSE.
tion from the entire organization.
On a referendum vote a large ma,
iority of the International Association
of Machinsts has declared against
mDying the general offices from
Washington city.
A new local of the international
Boot and Shoe Workers Union has
been formed in New York. 1t takes in
that branch of the trade known as
carpet slipper makers.
The brewery workmen of Milwau-
kee, Wis, are taking steps for the for.
nation of brewery workers alliance
to be formed on lines similar to the
railroad federations.
Plumbers at Fort Worth Tex, have
secured an advance of 80 cents per
day increase for two years following,
signing everw ship in the city.
The Michigan Legislature will con
slider action on recommendations
made by a state commission provid-
ing a workmens compensation plan
for AIchisan's industries.
Nearly 1000 carpenters employed
by the Jewish contractors in New
York City went on strike recently to
force the bosses to pay them the un-
ion scale. which is 50 per day.
San Francisco, Cal. Labor Council,
following the action of the State
Building Council, will ask the next
legislature to enact legislation pro,
vding for minimum wage for wo-
men.
During the past three months. 20
per cent if the carmen of the Great
Northern hays been organized at six
teen different points from st. Paul
to the coast. A federation on the
Great Northern seems an assured fact
The Wholesale Cooperative Socie-
ty, with headquarters at Manchester,
has procured ground and will erect