Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-06-21

draft age will ind and accept en-
ployment where good going wages arc
paid, or be reclassifed and sent tC
France to fight, and those over 31-yrs
of age win become industrious imme-
diately or be arrested under the va
grancy law. In all these classes these
men are to be, combed out of every one
of the Il counties in the state to pre-
vent further labor difficulties.
Committee Takes Action.
The executive committee of the
state council of defense, after hearing
a report from Harvey Alfred, state
farm market director, decided on this
summary action. The director is in
possession of information to the effect
that residents of foreign countries who
have not yet become American citi-
zens, are taking advantage of the Ia
Dor shortage situation and not only
demanding exorbitant wages, but keep
ing up a onstant agitation among other
laborers to hold out for higher wages.
They are active in the sheep camps
as well as on the farms. Men within
the draft age, who in many instances,
received deferred classification on ag-
riculture and industrial grounds, have
of wages. in some instances hiring out
to farmers at the highest notch wages
and then quitting their employer sud-
denly when demand for higher wage
was refused. They will either work at
the going wage or will be promptly re-
ported to draft boards for reclassifica-
ton, placed in the first class and sent
to training camps to prepare to fight.
Men over the draft limitation age, or
81, who follow the same tactics and
refuse work when it is offered to them,
will answer to the vagrancy law and
be punished in that manner.
County Councils to Help.
Under plan adopted by the execu-
tive committee of the state council,
county councils of defense will canvass
their local labor situation under in
structions from the state council, and
report all such cases enumerated. Re-
-conmendations will then follow on in
dividual cases to the draft boards for
reclassification. The alien laborers
who refuse to work and continue agi-
tation among their fellow countrymen
or other laborers will be singled out
and reported by the proper authorities
empowered to do so, to the federal Of
fcials with the recommendation that
they be deported. County councils will
be able to lend material aid to the
state council in reporting all such
cases.
NhiIe the labor situation in Idaho is
not critical, it is recognized as serious
and every effort will be put forth to
prevent a continual disturbance of con-
ditions and the shifting of men who
can work but refuse to do so.
Gooding, Idaho, June 1s.-The fuel
budget for the season 191S-1919 has
been completed by the United States
Fuel Administration. We know the
worst of a bad situation. detailed
survey of the coal required during
the present coal year for war pur-
poses, to keep our industries running,
and for domestic consumers, foots up
aout eighty million tons more than
was produced last year. This is the
figure on June 1.
As om part in the great war in
creases, we are confronted, from |
month to month, with unexpected ad-
ditions to former estimates of fuel |
requirements and to greater demands |
on the man-power of the country, 50 |
that those responsible for the conser-
vation Of fuel do not feel safe in as
suming that the increased demand win
be only eighty million tons, nor in as
suming that it win be possible to OBJ
tain from increased production more
han one-balf of the deficiency. Con-
servation must provide for unexpect-
ID contingencies affecting both figures
If production and consumption.
One has only to remember that the
production of coal last season was fif-
" million tons greater than ever be-
ere n the history of the country and
@ reflect on the enormous added bur-
Ten the war has put on our transpor
alton system. as well as the man
,ower whish Is NECESSARY to 3roauce
md distribute coal, to und rstand
10, the fuel supply for this year Is
me of the most difficult and .hreat
r,nr problems the war has -rseeat
d.
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