The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-08-19


Dor Day in Boise in 1915 is to be a
high record celebration.
Among the Worlds Workers
Florida labor unions demand semi
monthly payday law.
Shipwrights in Scotland earn on an
average SO week.
Half a million pairs of soldiers
boots are now being made every week
in England.
So scarce are the men in the village
of Renton, Scotland, that lady letter
carrier has been appointed.
Winnipeg (Manitoba) school board
will this year spend $150000 on new
buildings, to help the unemployed.
Fifty-four per cent of the inhabi-
tants of the state of New York over
10 years of age were working for
living in 1900.
Radnorshire (Wales) educational
committee has adopted an increased
scale of wages for all grades of teach
ers.
Japan has eighty-sevep government
Frisco machinists ask Saturday
half-holilay.
Agricultural labor is scarce in En-
gland and Wales.
Knoxville, Tenn, will have 'labor-
forward" movement.
Cincinnati, bakers union has in
creased wages 81 week.
Miners in Scotland are paid $40 a
week OF FIVE and a half days.
Pennsylvania's new child labor law
is effective January l, 1916.
Electrical workers at Vancouver B
{, are paid 62H cents an hour.
The British National Union of Rail
waymen has $2,575,00O in its treasury.
Bellingham (Wash.) unions have
opened their $4,000 labor temple.
Thirty percent of the workers in the
clothing trade of New York have the
eight-hour day.
There should be at least one woman
factory inspector for every 25.OOO
working women.
Unions on the Pacific coast are adj
yocating a universal eight-hour day
for that section.
"Safety-frst' rules have reduced the
fatal accidents 38 per cent in a year
on the Boston & Maine railroad.
The Canadian Federation of Labor
failed to hold its convention last year.
and is practically out of existence
Fancy-bag workers at Birmingham.
England are now paid as high as SIS
a week.
Until the end of the war only men
above the military age will be en-
ployed on the London (England)
street railways.
British prisoners in Germany are
compelled to improve the roads. etc.
while German prisoners in Britain do
nothing.
Florida labor unions have asked the |
state legislature to create bureau OF
labor statistics.
In some of the work rooms conduct
ed by French army subcontractors.
where army shirts and other military |
supplies are made, women get only 10 /
cents day, while many operatives ex-
change their services for board and
lodging.
Nitrade OF sodium crystals as clear
as the best glass have been made by |
Partisan scientist
Wireless messages have been sue
cessfully sent without the usual aerial.
The wires, properly insulated, were
laid on the ground.
Aluminurs/shapes to fit all parts of
the human body, pierced with chan
nels for hot and cold water circulation.
have been invented by Viennese
surgeon for use as surgical COM
presses.
In the last generation the tuhercu-
osis death rate has decreased 40 per
cent in the registration area of the
country, and the death rate from kid
ley disease has increased l3f per cent
Strasburg the capital Of AIsace was
annexed by Germany in 1870, taken bv
France in 1881. and recaptured bv
Germany in 1870.
gasoline-operator tamping ma
'hine takes the place Of a number Of
Vor,kmen and does the work Just as