Show REGULATION WAGES FOR WORKERS Convicted Deserters Can CanE E Earn m More Than 1 Per Day for Families I While there Is no Chance hance for the county prisoners employed on the roads J to to o go on a a. strike for higher wages there is now a move afoot to pay them thern more money that money that is those who are arefe wife fe deserters Their wages go to support their families E. E R. R Morgan state road engineer i- i is II behind the plan Plan to Increase the pay of these prisoners from 1 I to the regulation regulation regula regula- tion road wage age scale minus the exact cost of their board l lodging and cloth cloth- ing He figures that the slate state now saves eaves about 1 Jl a day by using such convict labor and that the state should not profit by the misfortune of the deserted families It Jt Is likely that a Joint meeting of the boards of county commissioners and state road commissioners will be beheld held this week to discuss the matter The county prisoners serving terms for wife an and family desertion are now working on state highways and being paid from the st state te road fund Morgans Morgan's plan is that a careful ac account account account ac- ac count be kept to determine exactly what the cost of feeding clothing and jail rooming these prisoners is each day He believes at the scale of a day for labor the prisoners earn at least or perhaps more |