The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-03
LABOR NEWS AND NOTES

The result OF the trainmen's vote
or the strike question will not be
known until August /
The International Ladies Garment
Workers Union proposes to do a mail
order business in union label women 5
wearing apparel
Missouri has SIS labor unions affli-
ated with the American Federation Of
Labor, covering almost every known
branch OF activity
The compensation laws Of the state
Of New Jersey furnished fertile dis
cussioa for the delegates Of the New
Jersey State Association. United Broth
erhooi OF Carpenters, just held in
Trenton
The New York employment bureau
points out that the striking differ
enoe in economic conditions now and
Z year ago IS indicated by the fact
that more than eight times as many
I places we're filled last month as in
May. 1915.
As 9 result OF the calling out OF the
members OF the national guard Of the
Tar.0us states because OF the situa-
ticn in Mexico. work viii B. furnished
10 many men who have hitherto been
unemployed. Many. unft for war ser
vice. viii b given temporary posi-
lions replacing men who have Joined
their regiments, while others will Sc
cure employment with the regiments
British seamen before the war were
paid about pounds 10 shillings a
month, and their keep. Now they re-
ceiTe between S pounds and pounds
and 10 shillings q month and their
keep. Il is said that the increased
pay has also resulted in a better class
Of men Joining the ranks Of the sea
men.
Huge masses Of salt are to be seen
in some sections Of Rumania, for the
salt deposits cover an enormous area
and have a thickness varying from
about 500 10 500 feet At Sarat there !
is mountain OF sat, and steam show
els can be used to load the waiting
cars. In other cases electric machines I
t=rn out blocks a cubic yard in size !
like great pieces OF granite.
Women are blowing, harvesting, I
driving milk carts, and running taxis, /
working as carriage starters and even /
as trolley conductors in Europe now. I
The day Of the motor woman has ar
rived Girl mattresses have invaded
the sacred precincts Of the fashionable
restaurants, where formerly none but
German and French walters with
scrambled English were permitted to
work.
A concerted effort will be made by
the Labor Day committee OF the Bos-
ton Central Labor Union to make the
parade this year one OF the largest
that organized labor has had in years.
AT a recent meeting at committee of
% was appointed, which was divided
into subcommittee to visit every
union in the city and explain the ne.
cessity OF turning out in large num-
bers.
An interstate commerce commission |
into the whole subject
Of wages and hours of labor of rail-
road employees will be urged by the
chamber of commerce Of the United
States under the authorization of
referendum of its members. A ress-
ution to direct such inquiry. the cham s
Der announces, will be introduced in ,
congress.
The Letchworth park, forest. and
arboretum, in Wyoming county, n Y,
5 using a machine which plants from +
10000 to $1,000 forest tree seedlings |
. day, according TO officials of the
orest service. Previously the plant :
ng has been done by hand al the rate 4
II 1900 to 1900 trees each day per man. {
The machine was designed TO set out
abbage and tomato plants but works .
.qually well with trees. 1t is about {
he size OF an ordinary moving ma. f
hine and is operated by three men
nj two horses. Eighteen hundred =
nd ninety-three positions are being Il
ffered by the bureau of employment
( the state department of labor and v
Industry 10 undergraduate college stu
ents for summer employment !.