The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-06

| Tor SnOltef nouIs ana tldl tucIT wages
be increased to Sl2 and $lS a week.
On June 10. Ceramic, Mosaic and
Encaustic Tile Layers and Helpers
International Union will convene.
Grand Trunk firemen from all over
its system demand a twenty per cent
increase in wages.
The Canadian department OF LABOR
has been asked to appoint a chairman
for a permanent arbitration board in
the Western Canada coal fields.
Alderman Isaac Taylor. a union
tailor, has been re- elected to the City
Council of Kansas City by the largest
vote polled by any candidate.
Mount Clemens. Mich, telephone
girls threaten to strike because tse
instruments they are compelled to use
are causing corns to form on their
ears.
DELEGATES from carpenters unions
from every part of Florida convened
recently and organized state car
penters council.
4 iourneyman carpenter who is an
ardent trade unionists, a Presbyterian
minister and a lawyer will comprise
the wonltmen's compensation commits
sion of Michigan.
John Steele of Alma, Kan, has been
selected as arbitrator in future dis
putes between coal miners and opet-
ators of the southwestern district.
The proprietor of tailor shop in
st. Louis has just been fined $500 and
costs for using illegally the label of
the Garment Workers Union
The semi monthly law, by which
railroads are compelled to pay en-
ployes twice month, which was
passed by the last Missouri legisla-
ture, is constitutional.
International Molders Union has
voted to hold a general convention in
Milwaukee in September. This will be
the first convention held by the union
in five years.
Employees of Morris & Co.. a Chca-
so packing house. who have reached
the age of 65 years may retire and
receive annually 2 per cent of their
sa ary for each year of service to the
corporation.
T. p. Shonts. president of the New
York lnterborough system, has an
nounCed an increase in the wages of L
large number of subway and elevated
employees, which he claims will total
100000 the first year.
A bill providing for the establish
ment of free employment bureaus in
all thep rincipal cities of the SAFE
has been drafted by the law and legis-
lative committee of the San Francisco
Labor Council.
The eight hour law does not apply
to the construction of bridges on state
highway Improvements outside OF
cities and towns, accot tding ito an
opinion of Attorney General Carmody
of New York
After a long contest the Central
Trades and Labor Council of ia kson-
Vile has succe5 ded in having the city
council pa an ordinance fixing tae
hours of labor for all city employees
at eight per day. the ordinance to
take effect January /. 1913.
Two thousand union bakes in Ca
Ca.o have signed new scale with |
their employers, which gives the day |
men s. more a wee'l than they were
receiving and gives the night men 5 |
more This puts both the day and the |
night men on the same basis of $40 a
week
Permanent boards of arbitration OF
cancellation for the adjustment of la
Dor disputes are proposed by the Hon !
I. w. CrotherS. Canadian minister of |
Labor. to be located in the different
industrial centers of the country.
California, Connecticut, Illinois, /
New York. Michigan and Wisconsin |
have made laws requiring physicians
to make reports on occupat:onal dis
eases. The diseases specified are an /
thrax. caisson disease of the bends.
and lead, phosphorus, arsenic and
mercury poisoning.
The Federation of Fedetations of .
Railway Employees recently organized /
at Kansas City. is to be composed of ,
bona fide national. international and .
brotherhood organizations of railway .
employees affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
Unless the Hartman lines recognize |
the system federation and grants de-