New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-08
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

GENERAL REDUCTION IN LABOR PRICES.
FALLING OFF IN WAGES IN THE BUILDING TRADES
FROM LAST YrAE-cOMMENTs OF EMPLOYERS ON
TIE TREATMENT OF TIE BOULEVARD LABoRERs
Owing to the interest created In the subject
M aborers wages by the reduction OF the amount
paid daily TO the Boulevard laborers by the city autno
ties INQUIRY was yesterday made into the subject OF
wages paid by contractors and architects to their work
men. All whom the reporter saw united in stating that
there is marked decline in the price OF labor this sea
son. Brckayers who last received on the average
g to IS so per day. SO to ST. with the excep
zion OF who lay front bricks who being more skilled
ret a. So Carpenters from 81 so to So 20, against
On average Of SO so last year. Hodcarrers get u TO-
where last year they earned 50 so per day Painters
only get So to 80 rs against last yea OF S
Pasterers do hold strictly to the society rules ana
are slowly giving way 10 the demands OF employers
There difference of % cent in the estimates OF
those whose adhere to the rules OF the Plasrers
Society and Of those whose men do not stonenasons
are satisfied with reduction of per day. atnoueh
they are not 90 numerous this as last very Few
Americans enter this line OF labor owing TO enc eNceeu
ingly hard work required OF them Men engaged Ill inns
work are nearly all German Irish stoneeu'ters take
this year all they get, from 50 90 TO ~ Oh per
against 81 to s. last year. In many OF the s'one!auS
the Society rules not needed at ALL the men WORKING
regardless previously made schedules OF prices
One OF them stated TO the reporter that ne a
the Society long enough his wife and children were SUI
fering and 10 Worb, not haNiuS
davis labor ia six months This was said to be one
of the most dmouthed strikers last year. ana now Is
one of the fret to succumb 10 necessity Ceardgeers
have submitted TO reduction of 25 cents per day. their
wages now ranging from 81 80 to 81 10
Notwithstanding this general decline In the price oi
labor contractors and others interested in the building
trade do not approve Of the policy OF the Department OF
Public Works reducing the wages OF Boulevard iapo
rers from So to 81 CO. They state that most OF the men
employed there are drawn from various wards OF he
city where they obtain labor tickets through the lnn
ence of ward politicians They have TO pay 70 cents
half in going and from their work In the mornings
ana evenings II is also claimed that TIE WORK on th
boulevard Is better done at This time Than IN e DAYS OF
the Tweed Ring There IL no loungng nor skuking as
IN Ring times and while public laborers generally ex-
meet TO work less than those employed by contractors
the boulevard actually work more hours az saer
paw 1t generally believed In the building trade
that the new rules OF the Department VI iuoho WINS
will be adhered TO. ~, ,,,
The report circulated yesterday that the federal
authorities ordered reduction OF wages OF the labor
rs in the bonded warehouses This Is incorrect so fr as
Ioyernment is concerned. Bonded warehouses are
owned by private viduals firms, who control all
she public stores West and Iaigh SITS. the Govern
ment employs labor beyond the clerks and ORDINARY
officials labor contractor takes charge OF all tne men
employed there and them out OF his own pocket
There has considerable talk for some time past
about reducing the wagcso men thus employed ana Id
an likelihood other labor interests suffer reducuo
changes will be made there. The labor contractor Is
held responsible for supplying all the necessary to
do the work and around the public stores and nc can
hem iuat Xl at