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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26

This is in direct contradiction to the
claims of the company in a statement
issued at 20 Broadway that it always
has paid the prevailing wage or better.
The statement of the general manager
OF the company that the interests of
other companies in the same locality
are considered in the fixing of wages
constitutes, in effect, an admission
that the company combines with the
poorest and least generous employers
to fix the wage rate. {5-t4ss4
The men are made to understand"
the report continued that they must
seek no outside assistance in their
dealings with the management, and
that any show of independence or any
hint of compulsion will be vigorously
resented.
THE company has instituted no ma
chinery by which real or fancied
grievances may be peacefully and
promptly adjusted. The officials say
that any man has access to the general
superintendent, but the employees al
lege that they would be discharged be-
fore Teaching the office.
General Manager Clifford is not a
believer in child labor legislation, and
on the other hand, thinks the children
should be allowed to go to work ear
lier. He and Mr. Hennessy apparent
ly have little respect for the foreign
born men whose labor produce the
company's earnings and are proponen-
ents of the extremely individualistic
and reactionary industrial theories
discarded by enlightened employers
and by economists many years ago.
1.-TWO days after the men returned
to work the Standard Oil company an
nounced increases in wages. These.
increases were less than those de-
manded by the strikers and the rates.
now being paid are still below those
paid by one of the other companies
-adjoining the Standard Oil company'S.
plant, if the common labor rate can be
taken as a basis of comparison.
THE outcome Of the strike consti-
tutes acomplete victory for the STAN
dard Oil company as to its vital poll
cies: that is. its refusal to recognize
or permit collective action or to make
any concession to the men except of
its own free will and accord"
The report gives a long history of
the strike in July and of the disorders
which ACCOMPANIED it. 1t accuses the
Standard Oil company of urging the
Bayonne police to keep strikers off the
streets and asserts that the attempt
to do so caused the first riot on July
I1A
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
FIXING WAGE SCALE.
Standard Oil Takes Lowest Rates In Community
as Basis

Chicago.-"The Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey, although con-
Quoting an enormously profitable en-
terprise, pays wages too low to inain-
tam a family on comfortable,
healthy basis"
The above is one of the numerous
indictments of Standard Oil methods
found in the report on. the recent
strike at Bayonne, N. J., by investi-
gators of the commission on federal
relations.
The report says:
The company is the most import
ant of the Standard Oil group, and
this group is the principal contributor
to the wealth, prestige and power of
the largest estate in the country, il
not in the world, that of John d.
Rockefeller, sr., and his immediate
family.
Facts regarding the companys la
Dor policies must, therefore, be re-
garded as of special significance, be-
cause of the tremendous power weld
ed by the group of men who control
this industry. and because of their an
nounced intention to enter the field of
industrial relations with view to
widening their influence and activity,
and propagating what they deem to be
the proper theories and principles that
should govern the relation between
employer and employee"
The investigators say Standard Oil
uses this method in setting wage rates:
1T fixes wages not with relation to
the earnings ,of the company, but by
taking into consideration wages paid
by other companies in the same local
ity, and then fixing the wages as low
as or lower than the prevailing wages
in that locality.
I'm Bayonne it paid common labor
ers less than those of two companies
whose plants adjoin its re6neries.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
PushmObiIe Races at White City on Labor Day

The great sport of the Labor Day
celebration will be the Pushmobile
races in which some fifty boys will
take part with pushmobiles OF their
own manufacture and representing
every known factor of the pusImo-
bile industry.
On Monday last, the boys with their
machines and footing horns assembl-
ed in front of The Gem Worker Of
fee at the corner of Ninth and Main
streets and formed parade line
which led by the mammoth Kelly
Springfield truck large Studebaker
and the little Saxon automobiles of
the Folts Motor Company, paraded
the business streets of the city, under
the supervision of John Alden. editor
of The Gem Worker and chairman
of the Sports Committee of the cele-
bration.
There will be another gathering OF
the boys to receive final instructions
at the same place Monday evening at
5 o'clock and new teams may enter
on that day, which will close the en-
trance and complete the list of con-
tending teams.
Those who have entered the race.
with the driver mentioned first and
pusher second are given herewith:
Car No. 100-John Greenlee. aged
13, 213 N. ID tn street; Willard Regan,
aged II. o24 Franklin.
Car No. 10l-John Lemp. 8; corner
5th and Myrtle; Fred Carey, aged II,
502 South 5th.
Car No. l02-Cyril Estes. II, 1000
E. Washington: Ivan Thompson, l3,
1927 East Baneck.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26

amount.
The Citizens of Boise are exp ected
pui Shase 1uuV Membership Tickets
1anu .hey VII DO IT.. 50 you sef our
aI.iisI ar IS getting splendid sup
por' from the Gem CITY, and with
.ne same same loyalty IRON the farmers,
s.e GEN 81 ALE FAIR wiz bf the
biggest and best fair ever hel ID in
Idaho.
Yours truly,
GEM STATE FAIR,
by y. +. HendersHot,
Secretary.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
HOW STANDARD OIL
adjusts" WAGES

-. "The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey, although conducting an en-
ormously profitable enterprise, pays
wages too low to maintain family
on comfortable, healthy basis.
1T. fixes wages, not with relation
to the earnings of the company but by
taking into consideration wages paid
by other companies in the same To-
cality, and then fixing the wage as low
as or lower than the prevailing wage
in that locality. From report on
Bayonne strike by industrial relations
commissions investigators.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26

Car No. l03-Nohnan, Allen. IL,
1901 Grove; Harold Smith, 10, Bristol
Hotel
Car No. 104-Leo LaFrank. OH
East Jefferson; John O'Donnell, II,
zoo Mckinley.
Car No. l05-Alfrcd Maupin, 13,
1915 N. 18th; Richard Johnson. II.
Car No. l0o-James Kelsey, 10,
400 w Jefferson; Lorne Campbell, IL,
700 1-2 Franklin.
Car No 107-L NJ. Dougherty, IL,
1915 N. 18th. Arthur Dougherty, l3,
1915 N. 18th.
Car No. ioS-David Mcfarland. u.
l404 N. l4th; Everett Ruick, II, l40l
n. 18th.
Car No. 109-Lloyd Underwood, II.
208 Flume; Harold Rutherford, II,
SIS F.. Bannock.
Car No. i1o-Virgii Gerlocl. 13.
ot5 Franklin; Victor Cameron, 1918
N 18th.
Car No. 1li-Herbert Brewer, II,
1910 Hays; pusher unsolicited.
Car No. 1l2-John Blackinger, 1402
Franklin; pusher unsolicited.
Car No 113-Lawrence Hannifan,
IS. Ills Pueblo; pusher unsolicited.
Car No. 1l4-Melvin Eby. II, ol7
Pueblo; pusher unsolicited.
Car No. 115-Wm. Davis,ll. and
Buford Davis. II, 1917 Eastman.
Car No. 116-Francis Lawier, g.
zoos Washington; Albert Siron, 49,
10th and Railroad
Car No. ll7-Felix Shaffner. II,
Dole Thompson, IL. both on Bench
Car No 1TQ II ox.fa 81 AI.l1sf-au II.
AIbeTt Milliken, Z. both on bench;
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
B. & o. BUYS EQUIPMENT

Baltimore.-The Baltimore and
Ohio railroad announces that II has
placed several contracts with several
mills for 1900 tons of steel rails and
with car manufacturers for 600 steel
hopper car bodies for immediate de-
livery. The material will cost about
81, 100000. These orders supplemented
contracts placed last month for 1000
steel hopper cars. and 500 passenger
cars costing approximately s., 500 900.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
TExTILE WoRkRRs ACTIVE

Greenville. S. C.-Textile workers
in the trade union movement. In two
years Anderson Textile Workers
union. No 900, has reached a mem-
bership OF 800. 1t is predicted that
with the opening of fail business the
union will increase its membership
to 1900
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
Against the Grand ] ury

association. Pacific district. den3unc-
ed the grand jury system as "a relic
Of medieval times" which permits no
defendant to question the DartialIty of
its members.
Resolutions adopted by the cohven-
ton declare that the powers of wealth,
through their vast property rid It's.
have usurped control of the an nd
Jury system. SO that it has becoHle "a
new form Of the inquisition."
cost of production in their busind IS of
producing guns, ammunition and sup
plies, are getting more and more fear
full of foreign attack-that is, ar end
of the war in Europe and no further
demand for their wares. If the United
States would go into the preparl llness
for war idea on large scale, it y Fould
Ihe1p keep up the price of stocks df the
great munitions manufacturers either
wise there would be a pretty poor
market for long time, possibly the
destruction of the whole business.
Their patriotism and love of toun-
try revolve around the fulcrum of pro-
fit and they are the invisible spirit be-
hind most of the jineo sentiment AL
most every broker, sneculator or small
investor who has a block of this war
baby stock will join in the chorus for
war preparedness as the market price
of his securities depend upon a con-
tinuance of the sale of war material
under abnormal conditions.
1t would seem as if now would be a
good time for the munitions people
to join hands with few other rhulti-
millionaires and buy up all the lews-
papers of prominence. keep out df the
papers any peace sentiment and
whoop-er-up for blood and iroH. It
would bring results in dollars and
cents and there is a surplus OF this
class of editors and publishers whose
l-mouths are watering for chance TO
compete with each other in "shving
the country" from extreme paci6cism,
which is clearly Improbable t3 the
munitions business. and grows latter
as the man hunt becomes more des-
perate.
1t would be an interesting STORY i
| It could be found out in detail this
connection between the newspapers,
politicians and jingo orators an the
4 people who proi1t by wholesale muir
der and who are militantly fomd dntine
spirit for its continuance.
But let no one think for minute
that there are any pangs of conscience
concerning the results of their work
by such as they; such as these ele'
lment of our society are morally vas
tated and there is no limit beyond
which they would not go to intreass
profits and power at any cost
It would be amusing, however, tS
hear the opinion Of one of these grea
4 manufacturers on the question O
whether the government could manu-
facturer its own war weapons NOR
| economically. There could n Pt b
found language strong enough 10 ex
press His disgust at the idea.
! MARCUS DAY
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
INCREASE BENEFITS

Detroit.-The Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers International Aili-
ance convention increased death bene-
fits from 500 to $500 President
Hynes, General Secretary Bray and
all other officers were reelected. Bos-
ton was chosen as the next conven-
tion city. The period for holding con-
ventions was extended from two or
three wears.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
sTRTKEBREAKERs FINED

Worcester, Mass. - Two strike
breakers employed by the Rice, Bar
ton & Faies Machine and Iron COM
pany were cached fined $50 for car
rying concealed weapons without per-
naits.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-26
THE SUBSIDIZED PRESS

From the large munition ernanufac-
turer's language one would be forced
TO the consiusion that all attempts on
the part of labor to obtain a share ii
the profits is "shortsightedness." But
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ELECTRICITY AND THE HOTEL

r Electricity forms the nerve
system OF Americas great
hotels. Proprietors and man
ayers agree that without electricity
the modern hotel would he impossible.
The hotel in all the larger
cities are fun of electric marvclS,
Work In the kitchens. pantries and
laundrles in the up to date hotel is
accomplished without dirt or noise and
with the minimum amount Of waste.
How the landlord of other days would
welcome the electric machines that
now do the work Of dozens of dish
washers and by which hroakagrs are
almost unheard Of, The ncw kitchen
maid works with an electric egg
boiler. the electric broad cutter, the
electric potato scrtping machine and
tho electrical" operated machines
that never wary in measuring cups
of tea and coffee.
The housewife who laburlously COM
pounds the deliciously smooth mayon-
naise witnesses with wonder the
workings OF a little electric servant
that turns the product out by the
seilon. Another machine cuts small
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toppers The rule is: skirt twel>c
inches from the ground, fiaring TO a
circumference OF not less than q yard !,
boots reaching to edge OF skirt, the top
two inches being "a band OF fur TO con-
trast with the gown or harmonize with
the iurs. The effect il entirely dia-
concerning. especially when some per-
fectly respectable white family cat
give. up his life 10 make tho top two
inches Of fur possible.
II saw tn" limit the other day"
sighed IA mere man. 1T WAS what
the boys along Broadway would call Z
piece OF poultry. done up In n bright
green velvet suit that broke the twelve
inch rule all to smash. The suit was
trimmed to the guards In red fox fur.
wait a minute. Tho worst is OH
the way. With this ~dressmaker's de-
lirium went Il pair OF high heeled green
kid boots to match the dress. n cir
cling the top Of them were bands NJ
shaggy red fox FUR. | wonder II the
designer il still at large. I hope not.
With imaginations like that running
nround loose no one IL safe"
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HEARTS OVER FURS
Some of the Strange
Franks That Are
Symptoms of Prevail
ing Madness for Pelts

come loosened and was pulled over my
face"
Yes. they use II on nightgowns too.
The holdup of the future will not be
AZ affair of masked bandits and an ex-
press train. The business of the en-
Sineer looking down the barrel Of "a
gun in the hand of a desperate will
be old stun.
No more roping the messenger of
the express car and binding him to the
beams while the robbers blow open tho
n n -cinovc many bags Of gold
bullion. No more routing out of in
nocent passengers and relieving them
of the family jewels. No more thread
ing of perilous journeys through
mountain Businesses 10 reach the Sc
cret cave and divide the spoils.
There Is a much more profitable
holdup in sight. With the supply of
fur hearing anima.s decreasing at a
speed that must frichten ia" most
sauguine of trappc!s and traders the
time Is at hand when the little folk
Of tllc forest and the snow hills will b."
worth their weight in diamonds. In
stead Of beng sold 10y the skin they
will be sold by the carat.
Then Will the bold bad bandit VEN
ture forth To hod w the one wolf and
relieve him of his hide. This bandit
will not necessarily Ice Of the perSua-
sion masculine. Rather Will TN. holdup
person he pctticoatcd and carry a
powder puff in the holster with her
gun. And woe betidc tho unlucky volt
or fox that wanders across her path.
Crack. from behind a tree and right
away the bandit will become the
poseessor Of spells that make tho
james boys ,ook foolish and place
Capt. Kidd III the Juvenile class.
a man who sells turs wholesale So
responsible foI the statement that
never before in the history ~ dress
has fur been SO popular as Il is this
sea o II No garment H. in the least
nifty without its little dab of fur. The
sale of fur coats is double that of last
year.
Yes. and now that they have them.
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10 gong good a fad " a fearful thing.
81 Lad a nerve racking, heartrend-
ing dream last night" confessed n
ultra fashionable girl who considers
no shopping expedition complete with
out It's item OF furs. 81 wac standing
out in "A vas open space and all the
animals whose coats ] have worn \
crowding around me. weeping and
waillng and begging Tor mercy. There
were foxes and mink and squirrels and
moles n leopards and lynx and bears
and V en q big white rabbit. who cried
out that he had beer spotched with
blsc OK and sold to me for erminc.
"Of course there were lots Of other
animals ] never even recognized. OF
course | protested ] did not know how
they felt about giving up their furs
and ! begged their forgiveness. At
this their eye began to CLEAN and
they crowded closer. I felt they were
going to pounce upon me and devour
me. The leopard. c~rouched. sprung.
and Just as his hot Breath WAS on my
face I awoke with a scream The fur
on the sleeve of my n~ightdress had be-
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The Furless Girl Is in as
Sad a Plight as the
Puffless OF Beadless
Girl of Yesterday
~ JANE DIXON.

Nv
Where are you going. my pretty maid ."
I'm goinR FOX hunting. iii sir." she
said.
May I so with YOU. my pretty maid 80
To every shop Oh Fifth avenue. sir"
she gaid.
TINE mad OF the has
little tine to chase the fox
to cover. Out where autumn
has splashed field and forest
WITH crimson and gold and purple the
sound Of the bunting horn awakens
few feminine hearts 20 fiutter.
Why? Because feminine hearts are
busy fiuttering over he soft glisten-
inG coat Of the fox some far distant
trNpper caught In a steel trap and sent
70 New York 10 satisfy a within OF
fashion.
In the French gray and ivory booth.
cubist ~curtained. Of some smart shop.
the erstwhile huntress poses before
many mirrors. She tries the effect OF
fur scarfs. long and short and medium.
b Fuckers her brow over the rela-
u~e merits Of fiat nun. pillow mum
n melon muff. She %perspires be-
meath the weight Of coats Of chinchilla.
coats OF moleskin. coats of seal. She
dallies over fur banded Gowns. She
fingers longingly among the fur
trimmed hats. Briefly. she finds her
self in n treasure house OF furs. aud
SHE wants them all.
As a matter Of fact how liz one to
choose from all this riot Of ravishing
l~nreliness? II simply can't he done.
Tie a handkerchief over your eyes. put
YOUR hand in the pond. and grab the
first thing you touch. sigh. unseen.
Otherwise the cold weather may he
over before YOU can reach n decision.
The maid Of the moment is FUR mad.
Unless che can swathe herself in sew
erai different kinds of fur sne IL alto
Sether out of the picture. Unless she
y the proud possessor of n coat with
n fur band and a chin chin collar.
N is Inclined to go through the side
streets 10 hide her dowdiness.
A few sea O n back the girl who did
not possess n SGT of puffs 20 pin TO
her back hair was in the same situa-
lion. \ few OF these puffiess creatures
might have been found in remote dis
tricts. There ma he women who. at
some line in their lives did not wear
a string of beads. but uf course there
are limits to which the Imagination
will not stretch.
The furiess girl bears the same rcla-
o 10 life and fashion Of to-day as
II puff'ess and hcadless girl did to the
life and fashion of Yesterday and the
nay before. She il a poor. hopeless.
wretched sort of person, sinking along
IN the hope that she will remain M
noticed. Not to own "A. least a soupror
q fur this Season be IL nothing more
than a cross section Of an alley cat. is
nothing less than a tragedy.
d. Revcrtins 10 the fur madness. ii has
led the afflicted into some queer
franks. Take h furtopped boots TOR
example. or II you do not care TO take
them. take "A loo at their.
Skipping along In front OF you is a
pair of neat and natty black kid boots
and-as you live-what seems tn be ,
pair Of the old fashioned pantaletfes
from the wardrobe OF our grand
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trlbutions. applications for positions
and these very often are from abso-
lutte strangers.
Here ar" some extra Is from an ar
ttCle which Baron Shibusawl wrote
for the JdpnH M0Od:iRc Of las, April:
TT IL the constant hope OF every
patriotic Japanese that relations be-
tween Japan and the United States
Will ever grow warmer and warmer;
and We trust that the same spirit pre-
walls among Americans"
The Japanese are preeminently 4
people mindful of history. especially
the obligations which they are under
TO other nations. II Is IN fact a main
principle % %hushido, the war Of the
samurai I'm Japan. Even though those
Japanese who were directly under
Obligations to America are now dead
n gone, the succeeding generations
will forever entertain gratitude for the
favor bestowed upon their ancestors
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Wall street of Japan wearing his
usual bright n happy smile. lie
usually finds anxious callers await
Ing him--never less than twenty. The
kind hearted Baron seldom refuses
himself to any caller. II is said tina
he Is so very sincere in his arguments
and SO anxious to convince his visitor
hat he often walks all the way u
the door with him. discussing the mat
ter meanwhile. This great sincerity
has made him the most esteemed bust
ness man in Japan.
His interests are so broad and varied
that hardly nm evening nassos
! his having To attend two mee,inc,
He makes IL "A rule never IN ann.,r
. at more than two I'm one avenin, mo
, cause he In interested in many nhi,an-
, thropic and charitable works ard ,ho
| demands upon his tim. mr.. very. ,reot
About 10 o'c,oclx no returns 70 Ia.
home in sukayam He then reads
! the magazines &c which
hay. como from different norts of tho
country and for which no ms ro tim.
In tbs morn,ng A. mIdr,gh, ~. 10
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cubes OF Ice 10y thousands. Electrical
sWecpers and electrical busting ma
chimes do the work once performed
by an army Of woInen.
You don't have to 20 10 tho country
{" see the modern dairy maid and II
YOU did go IN" chances are YOU
Wouldn't lind Ter. You will find her
IL the modern hotcl-~the electric
dhiry maid who presses a button and
attends 10 other duties while tubs OF
butter are made.
The laundry Of the modern hotel
las electrically operated washing, dry-
lhg II ironing machines capable nf
turning out more than 10000 piecos
OF HAT work each day.
into the newest hotels as much rs
N~N"o'oo" cubic feet Of air is introduced
very h"ur for Vcnti,at.ng purnnsrs
TO lacllltatc service between kit,n.
ems, pantries and dining rooms IA,
modern hotel manager has Installed
e'ectric dumbwaiters. 4 silver plating
ana repairing department is main-
LMned IN almost every modern hotel
me electrical plating process saves
many thousands Of dollars each yeur,
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II suppose the costume created 4
sensation" / suggested.
Sensation Why it blocked traffic
in Longacre Square, and believe mo
II takes some wild work with the old
sewing machine 10 get a tumble from
that bunch of sartorial gangsters."
Combinations OF duh green with
beaver. navy blue with gray squirrel
or chinchilla, wine red with seal. deep
purple or amethyst with mole. black
with any OF these furs. are really ct
tractive when augmented by the Eur
toppers. but I will admi, the greer vel
vet and red fox Is carrying the fad
a bit too far. But why complaint
Some one IL liable TO drift up the path
way of thrills In emerald greer gar
nishcd with that weird range fur
fashion tried to foist upon us last
year. Where do they get the rans
colorcd fur? From an orang-utan
perhaps.
Have YOU glimpsed the fur trimmed
petticoats? Very smart they are and
a relief from the usual ruffies and frills
OF lace and chiffon festooned with rib