The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-23
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Street railway employees OF Calgary
Canada, are to build a summer re-
sort.
Building trades OF Worcester, Mass.
have formed Building Trades Coun.
ell
During the year about twenty new
labor papers nave been established
in this country
The Pacific District international
association aomgrise
fifty-siN locals.
The first protest against convict
labor was made by a convention of
pechanics in Utica, y. Y, in 1884.
The entire state of Illinois reports
but S,077 children under l6 at work
in all Ohio there are but 9,Ol9 child
rem re2ularly at work.
The Canadian government propoS-
es to restrict the working hours OF
the streds railway men to six days
of ten hours each day.
Pittsburg, Pa. Typographical Tn
ion is circulating a petition to repeal
the new mortuary law which was
adopted in November, 1911.
The child labor law and the child
labor commission of Oregon, are al
most exclusively the work of the Ore
gon State Federation of Labor.
The total amount paid in sick,
disability and death benefits by the
Boot and Shoe Workers Union dur
ing the last year was 100000.
Employees of the textile mills of
Philadelphia are to have their hours
of toll reduced three hO"rs week
from the legal 5S-hom schedule.
The apprentice printers unions
has been organized under the aus
pices of the San Francisco Typo
graphical union with charter mem
hership of 100.
A representative of the A. f. of l..
will attend the next annual conven-
ton of the Farmers Educational and
union as a fraternal
delegate
At the labor exchanges in Ger
many 3,7OS, 900 men and women oper.
atiyes offered their services for sale
in one year. Employer ma1e 2.2CS,- ,
900 applications for employees.
To assist the San Francisco La
Dor Council in erecting $250,OOO
labor temple, the Alaska Fisherman's
Union has voted to purchase $4,000
worth of bonds.
A movement toward the orsaniza.
tiOn of cooperative silk mills has
been started in attersop. \. j.. the
outgrowth OF the broad silk strikes in
progress.
The House District of Columbia
Committee has recommended for
passage a minimum wage for labor
ers employed by the government in
the district of 81 per day.
During a meeting on the minimum
wage question at Colchester, Eng
land, a woman said she got 6 cents
each for making soldiers shirts, but
had to find her own cotton and trim.
mings.
The Union Label Trades Depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor has jurisdiction over the Off /
rial labels of the different unions. |.
An effort will be made to get all un-
on, to adopt uniform ,apei.
That it should he illegal for girl T.
% marry unless she can produce Off F.
'iai evidence of having done one
Years household service was the no
vel porposal at a recent session of /
he German Women's Congress.
Plans have been outlined for a ma
tion-wide federation OF all railroad |.
organizations with the |
exception of the engineers who will /
emain separate. A meeting will be /
leld at Pittsburgh June 20, July i .
md >.
If the bakers at Nottingham, Eng .
and, are not granted a minimum .
wage of 30 shilings for qualified men .
IS shillings for foremen and from 1G .
o "a shillings for juniors, they .
hreaten to strike.
Tennessee and Michigan have pass
ID laws permitting married woman
o collect her own earnings and re-
uiring another payment if her wa
,es are given to her husband or to .
my unauthorized person
A strike involving over $500 hands .
Employed in the saw mills in ottawa,
Iull, and the surrounding district in .
aada, is threatened in the event
VI the mill owners refusing to ac-