The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Detroits branch Of the Michigan
state free employment bureau has
furnished position Tor 2s,iO9 out Of
3l.2O4 who applied.
Instead Of wearing labor day suits
this year, carpenters OF Cleveland
voted that each member purchase
share Of labor lyceum stock.
Wage increases amounting to $50
90 annually has been voluntarily
granted by the Milwaukee Electric
/ Railroad company.
There were 1928 foundry and
machine shop establishments in the
United States employing el5.is5 per-
sons when the thirteenth census vas
taken.
The International Ladies' Garment
Workers since the strike Of two
! years ago in New York and yicin-
.,y have a membership close to 100
0Oo
The International convention Of
/ the Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers has selected Cleveland, Ohio
as the place for the next convention
three years hence.
4 Law has been enacted by the
/ Massachusetts legislature and signed
I b. the governor regulating the hours
Of labor Of street railway employ
es
AS reward for faithful service
the MANAGEMENT of the Iron Noun
tain railroad will issue annual pass
IS 70 employees who have worked
tor the company fifteen years or
longer.
Z. J. Brais, general secretary Of
the Journeymen Tailors Union OF
America, has been nominated for
congress from the seventeenth H.
inois district on the socialist ticket.
Boston. Mass, union Of the Uni
ted Boot and Shoe Workers has
amalgamated with the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor
The statute making it an offense
for an employer 70 discharge an
employe on the sole ground that he
is a member of a labor union has
been declared unconstitutional By the
circuit court OF Ohio.
The leather workers of Chicago
after a long struggle with the en-
ployers, have returned TO work with
an agreement that all differences
are to be adjusted by a committee
OF the union and the employers.
Yielding to the demands OF fifty
hello girls" of Springfield, Mo,
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company granted an increase of pay
and a monthly holiday. Better
working conditions were assured the
operators.
The Ford Motor company OF De-
troit has informed its 5000 employees
that their working day would be
reduced from ten hours to nine hours
and that the pay Of all employees
working on an hourly rate would be
increased 10 per cent.
Twenty cents an hour is the scale
agreed to for carpenters and join
ers under the new agreement with
the Manchester, Stafford and District
Building Trades Employers asso-
citation.
All crafts employed in local thea
tiers are now affiliated with the San
Francisco Theatrical federation.
which will conduct its business on
the policy that the concern of one
is the concern of all.
Whereas. in New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vanias chief competitor is the silk
industry, nearly half the employees
are men, in the Keystone state only
nine out of every hundred workers
in the silk mills are grown men.
The fourteenth birthday is now the
lowest limit for children in the nor
thern states, with the single eX-
single exception Of New Hampshire,
and in four southern states; Kentucky
Tennessee, Louisiana and Virginia.
The trades unionists of Galesburg.
Ill.,, have organized a labor temple
association, and the active spirits
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