The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-29


Georgia forbids the employment Of
children under the age OF 10 years.
The United States kills annually
more coal miners than all the rest
Of the world combined.
Winnipeg, Canada. electric linemen
who went on strike have settled for
five cents an hour increase.
The city council of Merritt, b. C..
has fixed the rate of pay for labor
ers IN r1ieir employ at So per nine
hour day.
A biennial convention of the In
ternational Union of United Brewery
Workmen will be held in Denver, be-
ginning September 8.
The Canadian government, by law,
proposes to restrict the working
hours OF the street railway men 10
tsix days of ten hours each.
Milwaukee, Fla, lodge of railway
conductors recently adopted a res
olution that all uniforms hereafter
ordered by the lodge must bear the
union label
Milwaukee, Wis, steamfitters are
to receive s. a day, an increase OF
fifty cents, and their helpers $3.50
day, an increase of 25 cents. The
contract provides for an eight-hour
day.
The cornerstone Of Uticas labor
temple was laid with appropriate GER
emonies on July 4, 1911. Since that
time the edifice has been completed,
and on July 4, 1912, dedicatory ex-
ercises were held.
A committee representing the
Street and Electric Railway Employ
as' Union of the entire Michigan Uni
ted Traction system, has been sue
)cessful in securing an agreement for
one year.
The Central Labor union OF Brook
lyn has set itself the task of obtain
| ing the denomination of Congress
man James =. Maher, who is nation
al treasurer of the United Hatters
OF North America.
The underlying principle of all la
Dor legislation is that the Industries
should as far as possible. bear the
burden of the cost entailed by ac-
! cldents engaged therein.
There are 100000 children today
under the age of 1G years who are
employed in addition to another mill
ion in agriculture, only a part of
who are assisting their parents on
the farm.
A Massachusetts law which COM
pels public institutions to purchase
from the prison commission prison
made goods has been amended this
year so that it will include all city
officers and departments.
There is to be opened i'll Cincinnati
cooperative club for working girls.
They are to be given rooms at the
cost of 81 a week, while their meals
will cost 50 cents a day. 1t is TO
be q real home and noprofits.
Occupations dangerous to health or
morals are singled out by some few
States and forbidden to minors under
1G or 18 or q, as for example, the
night messenger service is now reg
ulated by special laws in New YORK
and nine other states
There is a movement on foot III va
rious places to amalgamate organiza-
tions in the shoe manufacturing indus
try, there being numerous local or
ganizations outside the regular ami
recognized Boot and Shoe Workers
union.
While the cost of living of a rail
way employe in the United States is
less than so per cent higher than
that of a corresponding employe in
the United Kingdom or on the Con-
tinent. his compensation averages
over twice as great.
At the recent convention of the
International Printing Pressmens
union at Hale Springs, Tenn, an as
sessment of 25 cents per member
per month was levied to continue un.
til September to persecute the fight
for the universal eight-hour day.
During the years of 1901 the fol-
lowing twelve states have enacted
''workmen compensation laws"
California. Illinois, Kansas. Maryland,
Massachusetts,. Montana, New Hanp-
shire. New Jersey. New York, (de-
clared unconstitutionaD, Ohio, Wash .
ington, Wisconsin.
The average weekly pay of engine
men in the United Kingdom in 1907
was Sl1.17; of firemen, s6.6i. N