The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10
Government MachiniSts at Wa
tertoWn Arsenal Formally
Voice Grievances.
NOT SATISFIED WITH WAGES
Claim Made That Scale Is Lower Than
Those of Private Concerns-HaVe
Been Granted Leave to Strike
Miscellaneous News of
the Labor World.

Trades Council OF Greater Boston en-
ployed NJ the United States arsenal at
WATERFOWL to leave their jobs unless
granted higher wages was given the
council. Arsenal employees contended |
their rates of payment were much
lower than those for similar work in |
outside concerns or in navy yards, and
shat ciVil-service regulations were not |
being observed. Fred G. Bolam, inter |
national vice president of the Brother
hood of BIacksmiths. said that in the |
last year nearly two hundred ma chin
lists had left the arsenal and were now !
employed elsewhere at higher rates |
He said orders of the government were |
being neglected or delayed through |
the breaking of machinery and the in
competency OF unskilled labor now be-
ing employed.
Five thousand New York city en-
ployes in the municipal building re-
ceived notice that Il system OF CO.
operative buying. selling and profit
sharing, managed by city employees,
had been established to reduce the cost
of living If the project proves a sue
cess, il Will be offered to all the $1,000
municipal employees Mayor Mitchell
and other city officials have approved
the experiment.
A commission appointed by Former
Governor RalstOn recommends ths
Establishment of the cOnvict-labOr sys-
tenn in Indiana. The commi ssiOn IA
the state use system for the en-
ployment of prisoners and opposes the
employment of prisoners on public
highways 1t is said that Governor
elect Goodrich favors these recommen-
dations.
Wages of six million work people
have increased about S1.5O to So
week during 1916, employment has in
creased until the demand is greater
than the supply, and the price of food
has gone up 81 per cent since the war
began, according to the official review
iof the board Of trade.
The French minister of munitions
declares the government has in view
the imposing Of obligatory arbitration
between employers and employees in
questions Of wages to avert the many
strikes now encountered.
Garment workers numbering about
B3 900, employed In independent shops
In New York went on strike to compel
their employers to fndOrse the awards
made by the board of arbitration in the
recent strike.
Brantford (Canada) high-cost-of-liv-
Ing committee has repeated its request
TO the minister of labor to investigate
the prices of canned goods and urged
the admission of oleomargarine during
the war.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has announced that 1T has insured the
dives of its 10000 employees and also
sum totaling S3OOOO.OOO-
In Germany the most plausible au-
thorities place the number of women
who are doing industrial work at 1893,
OOO-or only $4,000 fewer than men
thus engaged.
Ing at StralSistown. Ireland, To discuss
the aCivisability of erecting "A corn mill
in that district to be run on co-opera-
live lines.
Dressing the high-speed steel with a
portable grinding stone, which makes
5000 revolutions a minute, is a new
branch of munition work of English
women.
TO create n demand for union-label
goods the office of label agent is to be
icreated by the San Francisco Labor
council in conjunction with the label
section.
Frisco bread-wa gon drivers are ne
igotiating with the American baking
companies in an effort to install a sys-
TEN of daylight delivery of bread.
The American Federation of Labor
has received up TO and including Sep
TENDER 30, 1915. $157, 735 for the RELIEF
of the DanburY hatters-
Concord On. H.) Street Car Mems
union has raised wages from 23A tc
% cents. instead OF - to 20 cents an
hour. formerly
Patternmakers on the Canadian gov
eminent railroads have been granted &
minimum wage OF 461s cents an hour.
Oakland (Cal) labor unions vii
have candidate for a commi ssioner
ship in the spring municipal election.
A campaign of organization is to b,
conducted among the wage earners OF
Santa Rosa and PetaIuma, Cal
There are 263. 315 girl stenographer.
and typewriters employed in the Unitee
States.
The Western Federation of Miner,
gained 2.4OO members during the pas
year
Seven million women are employed
in business and the professions in Eng
land.
San Antonio (Tex-) electrical work
ers demand IS day and the unioI
shop
Frisco's coopers' union wants al
eight-hour day
Carpenters at Seattle. Wash. ask Il
cents hour