The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-02

Ho1cmahers in the steel industry /
OF China earn S. to $40 month.
The union rate of wages for car.
pout.rs i'm Toronto Can is 81 cents /
an hour
Ten states last year passed laws |
provdm2 compensation for men i'm
iwou while at work
The Free Federation or Labor in
Porto Rico represents membership !
of $4,000.
The income of the American Fede-
ration of Labor from all sources dur
ine the last quarter Of 1911 was $i2,.
$3.50
4 healthy oreanization among the
LANDRY workers of Los Angeles, san
Pedro and Pasadena, Cal, has been
perfected
N'er several months iron mold
e'~ of Waterloo. Ia, have reached
satisfactory agreement and the strike
has been called Off
a petition has been presented to
the president of the United States
asking that a federal commission on
( industrial relations be appointed
Efforts are being made to induce
the International BHckayers, Masons
ana Plastcrers Union of America TO
affiliate with the American Fedora
tion of Labor
More than 700 motormen anu con
| ducIc's in san Francisco, Cal, hayn
Joined the international Street and
Electric Railway Association within
the past six months.
The total funds OF the Boot and
Snoc Operatives Union OF Great Bri.
tam now amount to $669,OOO which
/ is q Gain in the past half year Of $2@,-
ooo. The membership of the union is
.32,q2N.
The average wage received by
bricklayers in England is $9.72 per
week for 5212 hours. The bricklayers
in Germany receive $3.50 per week
and are required to work % hours.
Formed at the time of the great
labor uphCaval in London, the Nation
al Society of Window Cleaners is now
/ over four months old and Possesses
about 1000 members
There are 10000 women and girls
in Chicago who work in factory or
shop. The 10000 who belong TO the
Womens' Trade Union League are
planning a campaign to unionize the
remaining 115,OOO
The number of volunteer organizers
commissioned by the American Fed
. crat.On of Labor in 1871 was l5aI
There are now 16l7 volunteer organ
Zers commissioned by the federation
A new wage scale hs been adDot-
ed by the wage committee represent
/ ing hand-operated window -elas, fac
tories and the National Window
Glass Workers, providing for an ad-
vance of about 10 per cent for skill
I Cd labor.
/ One hundred and forty warrants
and summOnses were issued in one
day recently for individuals and cor
poratiOns in New York City who are
charged with employing children un-
der 16 years of age from y to II
hours day.
The international Association of
MachnlSts has announced the result
Of the referendum vote on the select
ion of a place for permanent head
quarters for the international body.
The vote stood $3.50 for indianapolis
and 9997 for ST. Louis.
Builders Laborers at Toronto, can
will make an effort to obtain an in
crease in wages The present rate of
wages is 2S cents an hour, and they
desire an increase of five cents an
hour. The men claim il is impossible
10 live on the present rate of wages
According to the last quarterly
statement for the year 1917 an az,
2regate membership of the organi2a-
lions that were affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor dur
ing the last month Of the quarter
was 1,S31,57S, an increase OF 115.6&N
over the corresponding month of 1911
The bureau of industries and immi,
Grafton of the New York State De
partment of Labor has recommended
that free employment bureaus be es-
tablished in the various industrial CEN
ters in the state for the distribution
of unskilled workers from congested
centers.
1t is reproted from Los Angeles
cal, that the plumbers Of that city
have haau cuccp1sfrI i'm rn9tpri91Iy m