The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-29
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Die cutters demand an N.hOnr daN

potent force IN Cnlld.
A plan 10 unionize the 200,O0l min
ers OF Mexico is on foot.
Fourteen large british shoe factor
les are now using the union stamp,
Endery Women5 Union, of Raleigh
&C., has gained ia per cent increaaa.
over 1000 women are engageI in
lacemaking at home in the city of
7 Nottingham
There are more than 10000 "hil,-
rem in New York City working in ten
ements for So to s. 30 a week.
The New Brunswick Legislature
has enacted a stationary boiler IN
spection law and a workmen's com
I pensation law.
/ United Textile Workers voted in ia
/ vor of affilating with the Interna-
tional Textile Workers Alliance in
| Europe
Kingston. Canada, teachers have
won their protest against the pro-
.
a straight salary increase.
The Kansas black powder law
OF 1907 to protect coal miners has
been held as constitutional by the
supreme court
The Textile Workers union is one
of the most powerful in England, and
practically every mill is a union shop.
The union is, also. very conservative.
The United States Bureau of La
/ Dor reports that in ten years. from
/ 1897 to 1907. wages of brcklayers in
creased II ID per cent
Every member of the Baltimore
Federation Of Labor will soon be
compelled to wear clothing, hats and
shoes made by union labor or to be
expelled from the organization
Dock laborers of Plymouth, Eng
land established minimum of 16
cents per hour, and established fifty
four hours as a uniform working
week.
In 1853, out of every 1000 persons
employed in the British mines a per-
centage of 4.3 lost their lives through
acCidentsN In 1910 this percentage
was reduced to IA per cent.
The Atlanta, Ga Federated Trades
has moved into its new labor temple
in which accommodation will be fur
nished to all of the unions in the city
Their new home is paid for.
Stokers, stationary enginemen and
haulage eneinemen engaged at the
North Staffordshire coal fields have
made an application to the colliery
owners for an eignt-hour day
TheMassachusetts State Board of
Education is sending circular to To-
cal lObOr unions throughout the state
urging members Cf unions to qualify
for positions in the state.aided vo-
cational schools of Massachusetts
Last year Wisconsin enacted an i'm
portant revision IN It's street trades
law by raising the age limit for news
boys from 10 TO II and for girls from
16 to is. and provides that in other
street trades boys shall not be EN-
ployed under Il.
The Miners Federation of Great
Britain is one of the best organized
unions in the united kingdom. 1t has
a large emergency fund on hand and
is prepared for a long struggle with
the operators.
The T. l. DUPONT de Nemours Pow
der company has decided to encOur-
age saving among its employees
throughout the country to the found
ing of a savings department. Five
per cent interest will be paid ON de-
posits.
The National Child Labor commit
tee is holding its eighth annual con
ference at Louisville. Ky, from Jan
uary - to 2S inclusive.
At Cincinnatt. Ohio. Common
Pleas Judge Frank VI. German uph eld
the constitutiona.ity of the Ohio law
making it illegal TO discharge any
workman merely because he is a
member of a labor union.
United States census figures just
issued show that during the decade
preceding 1910 the percentage of wo-
men breadwinners in this country in.
creased 4.l while the male bread
winners increased but J.
Chief Factory Inspector Davis has
issued statistics showing that the en-.
forcement of the ten-hour law for
women in Illinois has cost hotel men
not less than s5O,OOO a month since
July l.. when the law went into eff
feet
The United States Brewers asso.
citation has granted an increase of 81