New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Royal Gun Factory Idle,
While Contractors De.
liveries Fail.
SKILLED WORKMEN
SHOT BY HUNDREDS
Speeches In Parliament Heu
Back by Censor, Canadians
Complain.

Labor leaders in New York received
from Toronto labor men yesterdav a..
cusations against the British aarn,.
ment ring" and the government a.
Gals in charge Of letting arms al
munitions contracts. While ill.eoui,,.I
but grasping private firms were s,r,..
Cling with the contracts they had A.
tanned. the forty-ton hammer In ~.
Royal Gun Factory a. Woo.wich va,
idle. it was said. The thir.y.ton han.
mer was never raised. and the 2OO.,o,
press was worked on d single shif. A.,
odd jobs. In Flanders skilled workss,
were shot by hundreds.
Bitter complaints from TIE front b.
cause OF the lack OF proper amnp,,.
ton, it is declared. gave the first cl.x
to the real state Of affairs. Even the,
according to the Toronto workmen -,
government sought. through the cen
sors. TO beIittle the situation. L 80
serted that the censor5 are responEb.
for failing 70 trans u. 70 Cana,
speeches made in Parliament dese-iS.
ing the idieness at the Royal Gun Fac.
tory.
"It would also be well 20 bear I,
to New York. that on.t the news Ina,
it is desirable III people in Canada
should know is allowed 20 leak owe,
to this side Of the Atlantic. Thai /,
what the Board Of Cers,rs is appointed
for"
The armament bar0us7 who got n.
fat contracts. according DO nc Toronto
men, were rot sat Icd with Their
enormous rake-or," bur refused 70
share any part Of +. V.th their en-.
ployes in the shape of higher wages.
despite the fact that The cost OF living
had advanced from % 20 IS per cent,
Not only were their plants untitled for
the work. IL is said hI. they had %
satisfy themselves with uuskilled work.
men, es the best had gone 20 the front.
at was at this time continues the
statement, that Parliament should
have assumed control O. and national.
lied the armament and ammunition In.
dustry and filed the workshops and
factories with the best mechanics in
the nation, instead OF sending then %
slaughter on the Continental battle.
fields"
Among the members ~ Parlamer.
whose speeches are SAID 70 have been
suppressed by the cars5rs are Phlio
Snowden and VIII Crooks They are
said 20 have barred conditions al Woo
wich. 1t is asserted that the charges
that British worhmea refused 70 work
are absurd and cruel; that the lruA
was they had no work 20 10, and those
in the Royal Gun Factory did not know
from one day 10 the next whether their
employment would continue.
In telling OF the starvation" OF the
Woolwich plant Mr.. Crooas SAID that o.
an order for fifteen brcech loader inner
A tube guns only seven we're forged
of another for twerty-one only i've
were forged; Of another for thirty
only fifteen were forged The she.yci
acton hammer could have done the
forging for guns up 90 rs inches; is
smaller brother could have been IUrn.
ing out the foreings FOR ls-pounde,
gunsN
yet it is a government Mr. Crooks
is quoted. that permits and acluiesce,
in this sort OF thing frat wants IA.
tional register %. lur l.W.,, addresses
and family ties. r1 that $50 may All Be
Organized In the national interest"