The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-04-12
WORKERS GAIN BY DECISION
Employees Who Contract Disease In
Course of Employment Declared
Entitled to Compensation.


sion by Judge Audenreid in Philadel-
phia unfolding an award made by the
wOrkmen's compensation board OF
Pennsylvania. An employee contract
ed dermatitis through the handling of
hides which contained a poisonous
chemical. The employer resisted the
claim and said the disease was "acci-
dental" because of the condition OF
the employees hagSis. The court said
this was impossible.
Eighteen railroads entering Chicago
have granted the demands of the
Switchmen's union and the strike that
seemed inevitable will not come. The
strike vote taken recently was annulled
by Vice President James Murdoch of
the Brotherhood of Railway Tralnmen.
The strike threat, if carried into effect,
would have paralyzed transconunental
shipping through Chicago.
Toronto (Canada) Building Trades
league has issued its first working
card. Attached to the league are the
bricklayers, laborers, carpenters. paint
ers, plumbers and steamfitters, sheet
metal workers, electrical workers,
structural iron workers, tile settlers,
granite cutters, stone masons and lath-
ers.
ut is the first time in 80 years that
England has ordered ship built in
the United States" said an official of
the Union Iron works at San Fran
cisco in announcing that the local con-
Germ had closed contract to build
three 1O,O00-ton steel freighters for
British firms.
The Sick Benefit association of Ber-
lin, Germany, in which the working
classes are insured in case of sick
ness, has come to the conclusion, after
an inquiry among physicians, that
large amount of prevailing Illness is
due to inadequate nourishment.
The metal trades organizations of
Portland, Ore, are endeavoring to Sc
cure an agreement with the Metal
Trades association of that city which
will insure them the same wages and
conditions now maintaining in the
metal trades of San Francisco.
An increase in wages and 4S-hour
week have been conceded 5000 mem
bers of the Chicago United Garment
Workers union by 10 firms in the spe-
cial-order clothing trade. They receive
the highest wages paid in that line in
the United States.
CALIFORNIA; state labor commissioner
is preparing to ask the legislature for
an appropriation sufficient to establish
branches OF the state free employment
bureau in every city and some of the
| larger towns of the state
Feminism as automatically furthered
on the entrance of women into British
industry is seen by economists, who
predict quick attainment of the suf-
frage, women's trade unions and par
liamentary protection for women work
| ers after the war.
The Master Builders association of
Lancaster, Pa, has granted its carpen-
tiers an increase in wages from 80
cents an hour to 40 cents. There are
| 30 master builders in the city and
about 200 carpenters.
Owing to the shortage of help, a
number of Belfast Qreland) shops and
warehouses have closed between the
hours of one and two o'clock each day
since the first Of the year.
Trade unionists in Colorado are
stiffening their lines for a fight to re-
peal the law which prohibits a strike
until commission investigates and re-
ports on the case.
On the occasion of the second an
nual statute hirlngs at Nation, Yorks,
| ofi M
farm laborers present most unusual
state of affairs.
Wexford Qreland) County council
has decided that the putting into force
Of the summer time act would be
against the interests of the agricultural
community.
The Canadian Lemieux act prohibits
Dominion workers employed in public
utilities from striking until a govern
ment commission investigates the dis
pute.
Steel mills and glass factories IN the
Wheeling district resumed operations
after being closed four days as a result
of the most serious gas shortage of the
year.
The American Federation of Labor
Il
in the last 81 years has formed out OF
directly chartered local unions 81 ma
tional and international organizations.
Denver (Colo.) Stage Employees
union has signed an agreement with
theater managers. Wages are In
creased from $3.50 to So a week.
Slender girls are given the prefer
ence when applying for positions as
conductors on the Vienna street rail-
ways.
Plans are complete for special new
course for women In the Royal College
of Dental Surgeons In Toronto.
Nearly 10000 British women have
registered with the board of agricul-
ture for working on the land.
A campaign to organize all employees
| of Latin baking companies in San Fran