SOLDIERS ARE
FINDING WORK
IN THE WEST
SPOKANE, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—With wages from 65 to 70
per cent higher than before the war,
the labor situation in eastern Wash
ington and northern Idaho is in excel
lent condition, according to B. A.
Hunter, superintendent of the federal
employment service here. Mr. Hunt
er, whose office here supplies timber
workers for the camps and mills in
this section, miners for the Coeur
d’Alene mines, farm laborers for the
wheat ranches and workers for con
struction work and miscellaneous ac
tivities, has it as part of his duties
to keep in touch with the pulse of
the labor market and inform the gov
ernment of conditions.
It is only in the woods that there
is any disarrangement in the labor
market, Mr. Hunter said, and this is
due, not to a shortage of labor nor to
a aiirnlns of workers, but rather to
the constant strife among rival organ
izations of mill and timber men. For
this reason the “turn-over” of labor
is far in excess of what the conditions
in this field justify, he declared.
The problem of the returning soldier
is not now proving to be any problem
at all in this section, Mr. Hunter de
clared. The worst of this difficulty
presented itself several months ago,
he said, shortly after .the signing of
the armistice, and now has readjusted
itself.
“We are having no trouble now in
placing all the returning soldiers who
are seeking employment,” he said.
"The fact is, few of them are hunting
for work. Shortly after the signing
of the armistice, we were receiving,
on the cards we sent to the men from
this section requests for jobs, with
two or three preferences marked.
Now these cards are coming back,
some of them from France, with the
notation across their face, ‘Don’t need
any help in getting a job,’ or ‘Have a
job waiting for me.’
“The fact is, that most of the men
who are now returning had worked
themselves into business somewhere
or were skilled in some trade. The
man who has a regular trade or oc
cupation is never long out of a job. It
was the high school students - and
graduates, discharged front the offi
cers’ training camps shortly after the
armistice was signed, who presented
the problems. Few of these have ever
had practical experience of any sort,
and yet they expected to get desirable
employment at good wages.
“Returning soldiers are being ab
sorbed by the labor market as fast as
they get back. For instance, during a
recent week we had applications in
this office from 35 soldiers for jobs,
and placed 32 of them. The week be
fore that, we had 37 applications and
placed all of them, besides four others
from the preceding week. That, I be
lieve, represents the general labor
situation as well.”
The absence of war industries in
this section and the fact that women
are giving up their war time jobs to
returning soldiers are believed by Mr.
Hunter to be responsible in part for
the lack of a surplus of labor here.
While there is a big demand lor
mine labor from the Coeur d’Alene
district of Idaho that cannot be sup
plied, Mr. Hunter said this is due to
the low wages being offered. When
common labor receives $4 a day for
outside work, men will not work in
the mines for $4.25 a day, he said. He
predicted that wages in this district
will be advanced shortly to $5.25 a
day for miners, and said that then the
men who have been working on roads
or at other employment will return to
the mines, and the demand will be
satisfied.
Another instance of labor waiting
for the sort It wants is offered in the
case of contemplated road construc
tion work, Mr. Hunter said. An im
mense amount of road construction
will be done this summer by the coun
ty, state and federal governments, he
predicted, and said there are 600 to
700 men now in this city, waiting for
this work to open to get the sort of
employment they desire.
Aside from the big program of road
building, there is little construction
work in sight, the employment super
intendent said. Few buildings are
going up and reclamation projects are
still in so preliminary a state that
they afford little prospect of offering
employment noon, he declared.
Would whoever borrowed Louis
Hile’s wagon from in front of the
tailor shop kindly phone 188 and he
will call for it. 26-tf
Advertise in the Dally Times.
PLENTY LABOR
IN NEW MEXICO
AT PRESENT
«
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 119 (by
Associated Press).—“Are you shipping
out any men?” This question is usually
the first .one. asked by applicants for
work who 'make their appearance at
the employment office of the United
States department of labor, according
to Miss Laura Tulett, acting federal
state director for New Mexico. Since
the local office sends out men to all
parts of the southwest, Miss Tulett
has her finger on the employment
pulse of a large region
“The besetting weakness of men
who apply here for help in getting
jobs,” said Miss Tulett, “is the desire
to have transportation furnished them.
It doesn’t matter much to them where
they are sent, as long as soma one
else buys their ticket for them.”
“Are you shipping out anybody now.
boss,” was his first query.
According to Miss Tulett, there is
no pronounced balance either in favor
of supply or of demand. Both men and
work are plentiful. Some of the
“prospectives,” however, are said to
be captious as to the kind of work
they will accept.
The greatest demand is for common
laborers and for house and car car
penters. Good railroad machinists
likewise have little difficulty in obtain
ing work. The poorest demand is ior
clerical help. This is explained by the
fact that many of the applicants for
office positions are tuberculous, and
the number of such health-seekers in
this state is large.
Two-thirds of the applicants for
work have no trades. Being migrator
ily inclined, many of them are ready
to find fault with any town to which
they are shipped. A Mississippian who
had been sent to a town in the north
ern part of the state, returned to the
employment office a month later and
explained that he could not “stay put”
because there was only one moving
picture house in the place. Another
applicant admitted that he had trav
eled over every state In the union
during the past year, but had not
worked more than two months of that
time.
Of the 800 persons who have sought
the assistance of the local government
employment office during the past
month, 483 have been placed. Most of
the others have been referred to em
ployers, but for some reason have
failed to get the jobs.
The Colorado beet fields have drawn
heavily on New Mexico unskilled
labor. The farmers of this state are
not making great demands for hired
help.
Living costs in New Mexico have
increased about 100 per cent since
August, 1914.
Canned vegetables lead the list of
commodities that Mars has sent_sky
ward. Rents show the least increase.
A list of percentages of increase for
the principal necessities of life fol
lows:
Canned vegetables .300
Flour .200
Butter and eggs .100
Lard and compounds .100
Coal . SB
Meat . 95
Fresh fruits . 75
Clothing . 25
Lent . 10
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LOST—At Burkhardt Flats. One Rem
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Winchester rifle. Parties having
knowledge of same please notify G.
R. Remington, Hotel Windsor. 28-3t
WANTED—To buy a canary. Apply
to Mrs. Arthur Holt. 26-tf
WANTED—Woman wants position as
cook for small crew, in or out of
town. Apply Times office. 17-3t
LOST—Ladies’ broach with Alaskan
design of pick, shovel and pan.
Finder return to Times office.
FOR RENT—Rooms over Bank of
Alaska, formerly occupied by North
land Club. Will be altered to suit
, satisfactory tenants. Apply Bank of
Alaska. 3-tf
WANTED — Woman baker. Apply
Northland Bakery. 29-tf
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Everything modern and up-to-date;
doing fine business; will sell cheap
j if sold right away. Owner must
i leave for states. Wire or write Mr.
Norman A. Erickson, Box 383, Mc
' Carthy, Alaska.
FOUND—A bunch of keys. Owner
can secure same at First Bank of
Cordova. 16-tf
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ionce. Prosecutions will be started
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iailed to do so.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
W. H. Chase, Health Officer.
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condition of the house—no heed to worry
about what daddy is to have for lunch. In
a day or two the clothes are returned— ||
spotless, sanitary. And you have the sat
isfaction of knowing they are handled in a
far more careful manner than they could
f| have been in your own home.
The laundry never rubs on an anti
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to tear or destroy the fibre. Neither do
they twist their way through a wringer.
They are washed and handled in a most |§
|| scientific, yet harmless way that adds life
to your clothes.
The heaviest pieces are immaculately
irened. The smallest pieces which are eas
|| ily ironed are returned washed, starched
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