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Building Labor Conditions
Considered Bright for 1924
Building: labor conditions through
out the country are considered gen
erally favorable at present, according
to a national survey of conditions In
the building crafts just completed by
S. W. Straus & Co., and made public
today. Current conditions are epito
mized as follows;
Wages generally well stabilized
with slight upward tendencies in
larger cities where prospective build
ing operations are large.
General employment at peak wages
with especially pressing demands for
bricklayers and plasterers.
Possible shortage of common labor
with the development of activities
now indicated by unprecedented
volume of building permits.
Possibility of ensuing difficulties
through jurisdictional dispute be
tween carpenters’ union and sheet
metal workers over installation of
metal trim work.
Successful and significant co-opera
tion of building trades, unions and
contractors in establishing building
trades apprenticeship schools to help
relieve labor shortage.
Report Favorable Factor*.
"One of the factors in promulgating
the generally favorable tone now per
vading the situation. ’’ the survey
states, “has been the unusual amount
of employment throughout the build
ing crafts during the winter months.
These conditions were partly due to
mild weather In some sections of the
country, but it is noted that efforts to
increase the volume of construction
in the so-called off-seasons have been
successful. It is significant that the
government has seen fit to take up
this important phase of the building
situation semi-officially through the
formation of the committee on sea
r,o_nal operations in the construction
industries, which now has in preja
ratlon voluminous recommendations
on plans and methods of equalizing
activities throughout the year.
“Current building trades wage rates
per hour show that building labor
now is getting peak wages, as fol
lows; Bricklayers. $1.1214 to $1.75; car
penters, 70 cents to $1.60; hoisting en
gineers. 50 cents to $1.6714; hod car
riers, 50 cents to $1.26; pile drivers. 50
cents to $1.1214: structural iron work
ers. 60 cents to $1.50; common labor,
25 to 871» cents. Present wage
scales In St. Louis carry the highest
r.ates in the country. In that city
wage advances ranging from 10 to
25 cents an hour have been granted
carpenters, hod carriers, hoisting en
gineers and common labor. Negro
hod carriers have signed a new scale
of $1.25 an hour. Painters are de
manding a rate of $1,50 per hour Mon
day to Friday inclusive, and $3 per
hour for Saturday and Sunday.”
Common labor Hate.
The survey reports the common la
bor rate for the nation as applied to
pick and shovel men at 55 cents an
hour, as against 54 cents for the pre
ceding month. In New York. Chicago,
Cleveland and some other large cities,
laborers are getting from 75 cents to
S7h, cents per hour.
“In many cities.” the report points
out, "the building trades have ar
ranged for renewal of the 1923 wage
scales for the ensuing season. Where
advances are being written In the new
contracts they have thus far been
comparatively light. In many cities
Michigan Park
12th and Michigan Ave. N.E.
A neighborhood of en
hancing value, zoned
and restricted. Individ
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lots and properly con
structed houses and
bungalows. Call at 4207
12th street northeast.
Middaugh &
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Dupont Circle. Potomac 2200
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where wage increases have been
granted they have only covered pre
vious bonus payments, although
bricklayers and plasterers, are in some
places getting bonuses as a result of
shortage in those crafts.
Jurisdictional Dispute.
"In addition to the rawpening of the
old Jurisdictional dispute between the
carpenters and sheet metal workers,
the existence of dual conflicting build
ing trade councils In New York, Chi
cago and Cleveland offers a menacing
note which the building trades de
partment of the American Federation
of Labor is attempting to adjust. In
Chicago the International Painters'
Brotherhood, at the instance of the
Painters’ District Council, threatened
to withdraw from the department if
it did not do something toward bring
ing about unity of the union of that
city.
“An Important development in New
York was a decision of Supreme
Court Justice Ford, who, acting as
umpire between the Mason Builders’
Association and the bricklayers’
unions in a bonus dispute, decided
that once a builder pays a bonus on
an operation he is obligated to con
tinue such payments for the life of
the job. The bricklayers adopted a
resolution last year asking contrac
tors to stop taking men away from
each other by bonus offers in times
of labor shortgage.
Co-operation Shown.
"Co-operation of the building
unions and contractors in the estab
lishment of building trades appren
ticeship schools during the past year
is aiding to some extent In reliev
ing the labor shortage. Announce
ment comes from Carnegie Institute
of Technology, at Pittsburgh, that of
the 1,200 night students enrolled for
this year, 50 per cent have signed
up for courses in building construc
tion. The report indicates that a
large number of the young men en
tered for these studies formerly were
interested only in clerical and other
commercial office positions. A branch
• of the International Lathers’ Union
is co-operating with Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology in offering even
ing study courses to lather appren
tices. Other unions have taken sim
ilar steps.
"In Chicago the citizens’ committee
and a number of contractors operat
ing under the Landis award are de
veloping one of the nation’s foremost
building trades apprenticeship
schools. Instruction of building me
chanics will begin this fall in the
Techinal and Commercial Higli School
of Omaha- Neb. In Dallas, Tex., the
chamber of commerce is raising a
fund of $500,000 to establish the
Dallas Vocational School, which will
train boys to become plasterers,
bricklayers, machinists. plumbers,
etc. Similar schools are now being
established and operated in many
other cities, with the co-operation of
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C„ SATURDAY. MARCH 29. 1924.
the various trade unions. Almost
every labor organization is aiding in
this work and their efforts have in
creased their membership through
apprentices.
New York Negotiates
“ln New York negotiations have
been completed which may Insure
peace between workmen and em
ployers for the next two years. Prac
tically every Important union has
demanded and obtained a two-ysar
contract which calls, in a majority
of cases, for an increase of 60 cents
a day in the basic scales. Among
the recent contracts are; Carpenters,
$10.50 per day; cement masons. $10.60
per day; housesmlths. $10.50; painters
and decorators, $10.50: slate roofers,
sl2. and metal lathers, $10.60. The
average base pay in New York Is
now $10.50 a day. Bricklayers are
now receiving 11 and $2 bonuses
above the agreed rate of sl2 a day
on many jobs, and a similar bonus is
being paid to plasterers on many
Jobs, but not all. Practically all
building mechanics are employed at
present.
"Tn Chicago most building trades
are reported satisfied to continue on
the present basis of $1.25 an hour.
The bricklayers, plasterers and paint
ers have indicated that they may
ask a 25 cents ait hour increase when
their present agreements expire on
March 31. Skilled mechanics are In
great demand. Excavating teamaters
recently threatened to atrike for $1
a day more and an eight-hour day.
A compromise was affected on a
fifty-oent Increase and the continua
tion of the nine-hour schedule.
Same Wage Scale*.
"Minneapolis, San Francisco. Balti
more, Philadelphia. Cleveland and
Denver are among the principal cities
where the 1923 wage scales are ex
pected to be continued through 1924.
In Cincinnati. St. Louis. Pittsburgh,
Nashville- Kansas City. Youngstown.
St. Paul. New Orleans. Houston and
Sioux City Increases either have been
granted or are pending. A fairly
ample present supply of building
labor is reported in San Francisco.
Los Angeles. Philadelphia. Kansas
City, Atlanta. Minneapolis, Oklahoma
CIO.-, New Orleans and Baltimore.
"In IjOs Angeles bricklayers’ bo
nuses haw been eliminated and the
$lO a day wage scale is the minimum.
Employers are opposing demands of
a large group of workers for slight
wage increases.
Bricklayers’ Pay (lat,
"In Memphis bricklayers Viave been
cut from $1.50 to $1.37V4 per hour,
although many firms are paying the
former scale. Plumbers there were
raised 7>4 cents an hour. Nashville
carpenters secured an advance of 70
cents an hour, while lathers’ wages,
varying from 8714 cents to sl, have
been standardized at 95 cents. There
are indications of a general building
strike in Omaha April 1.
‘‘Columbia, S. C., skilled metal
workers and roofers are getting $1
an hour, or 20 cents above the scale.
New Orleans contractors in the car
penters’ strike won with their offer
of 90 cents an hour and the open
shop.
"Reports from Canada indicate that
the situation there is particularly
bright, with no marked tendency to
ward wage Increases. In Montreal
the current scale Is expected to pre
vail throughout 1924. and there Is no
unemployment or tendency to strike.
Building trade wages in the Domin
ion are much below' those In the
Lnlted States, as Indicated by the
following per hour scale recorded at
Montreal: __ Bricklayers, 90 cents; car
penters, 65 cents; hoisting engineers,
60 cents; hod carriers, 35 cents; pile
drivers, 60 cents; structural iron
workers, 65 cents; common laborers.
25 cents.’’
Shot in Leg Accidentally.
Earl M. Stewart, colored, twenty
one. 2363 Bth street northwest, ac
cidentally shot himself in the left leg
yesterday afternoon while cleaning
a rifle. He was given surgical aid at
h reedmen’s Hospital by Dr. Barber.
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DAUGHERTY IS INVITED
TO SPEAK AT CLEVELAND
City Club, Leading Forma, Telia
Former Attorney General
He Is Welcome.
By the Associated Praia.
CUSVELAND, Ohio. March 29.—Im
mediately upon receipt of the :tfi
nouncement of Harry M. Daugherty s
resignation, officials of the City Club,
Cleveland's leading forum organiza
tion. telegraphed the former Attorney
General an invitation to appear before
it “at his earliest convenience and
make any statement you care to
make.” , ,
Charles B. Ryan, secretary of the
club, pointed out that some time ago ’
Daugherty made the assertion that
he "would have something vital to
say when he stepped out of office,”
Will Address Veterans.
Maj. Gen. Anton St«phan, command
ing the District of Columbia militia
and the 29th National Guard Division,
and Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, adju
tant general of the District of Colum
bia militia, left Washington this aft
ernoon for Baltimore, Md., where to
night they will speak at a dinner
given by the Department of Mary
land, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Gen.
81-ett is commander-ln-chlef of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Gen.
Stephan senior vice commander-in
chief.
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U Completely Furnished by the French double doors from dining room to living ■“
PI Hecht Co room and breakfast porch. * |»
pu * High white-tiled bath, with shower and built-in m -
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Modern equipped kitchen, with white enameled
Take Chevy Chase car to end of range and cabinet.
Calvert street bridge then walk Two roomy and screened rear porches.
one block north or drive out Separate service porch.
■■ Connecticut avenue to Calvert Large yard to paved alley. —j
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