The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28

Walters (whitel meals included...... 1900
No return.
Well organized.
<*> None.
The bakers lack organization, cons:d-
ering the large number engaged at the
business. Their working hours are con.
sequently leng thened
Basket workers are composed mostly
of boys and girls. The work is light. but
as it has to be done standing, it is con-
sidered very injurious TO girls.
The BARRIERS main issue is the Sunday
closing question, which has been taken
up by prominent ministers of various
denominations, and promises to eventual
~ meet with success, as viewed at the
/ present time.
The bookbinding industry is very fiuc-
tuating, and necessarily numbers among
its following a large number of girls,
larger concerns employing in dull times
! fifty girls, while if business was good
the number often reaches 200 in a few OF
the mammoth binderieS.
The bricklayers' scale of $40 per day
seems large compared with other skilled
labor, but the numerous delays and stop
material, etc, shows decline in yearly
earnings of nearly one-half.
! Owing to the present financial crisis
affecting the building trades, the car
] penters voluntarily reduced their. scale
/ from 40 to IS cents per hour. and even
then averaged but half time.
! ne composition IODl6IS IdlSS OCOiC eiSCh
fully one-third as result of the business
depression, but they still remain strongly
organized.
of women: the work, mainly by the piece
is quite laborious, but the environments
are excellent.
1t is estimated that three-fourths OF the
clothing made is done under the sweating
system, which means small wages ana
needs regulating by law The cutters
(male) receive from $40 TO ~ per "SS EEK
this branch of the trade is an exception
as regards salary. $500,
The cooks are divided INTO seFer 81
specialties. viz: Head cooks, 80
per week: second cooks, SIS per week;
broilers. sic per week; pastry COOKS, 80
to S25 per week There are TWO COOKS
for every position held.
lied and control their trade at handsome
wages, with steady employment.
The laundry workers have been eene-
fitted by the well equipped and sanitary
devices at present used in the undermined
public laundrieS. Washing machlne men
$50 a day work being done by machin-
ei.y except the finishing touches, done by
hanD; finishers, S1.25 TO S1.fo per uay
Starcher This d bnsine s9r' has Increased
Wonderfully during the past rev years.
Iithographers. generally, secure all Lns
work they want. owing 10 me niSI Sf For
about one-fourth less wages, anu o!4e
hour more per week. ca
The paper-hangers generaily Iilu III ~
employment in other lines of business be
tween intervals Of their busy seasons,
When business is good, they f ayeFFags :
from 50 to s. d day piecework)' LOT TOUR
The pIasterers are well organized at
good wages, but owing TO the snort aura
zion of their busy season. they seIooni
earn over half the wages computeo
The plumbers also are enjoying fair
wages. and short hours, owing 70 tIleir
splendid organization. They average over
half-time.
The English Printers union, as also the
German branch. received strong blow
numerically. speaking, on the introduction
of typesetting machines on the dally Pa-
pers, the force of men DelnS cut uoWn
over one-half, while the system mas peer
changed from piece to tme-work. WheIe
the piece-hands formerly earned from s5V
10 S45 a week, il is now changed 10 ga
night and 81 day work. During the Try
Ing crisis incident to the introduction or
machines, nearly S4,UOO was dlstrlDuteu Dy
the English unions TO alleviate its as
tressed members, and great many were
The lob branch has in its told nearly an
the Skilled mechanics in its line. The 81. /
Louis Typogra phical union has a nve-
year contract with all The English dalIy
papers at the following scale: NiSnl |
scale, 81 a day-forty-four hours Weehly. !
S2f per week. for day Workooforty,edSHi |
n ,pGt and one-half. Nearly all operators !
work more or less overtime, SO tney re-
ceive extra from - to 50 y, wee aa,;s+o InS |
in Missouri, with a penalty OF SlOO Tor IN
fraction thereof. An ordinance Will pc |
introduced in the council ana mouse OF /
delegates having for its object the letting /
of municipal printing and supplies TO OF,
fees employing only union help, salo
printing to bear the label. The German
union has an out-of-work beneht OF 80 a |
week for three consecutive weeks, at any |
one time, and not more than sou allowed
to any one member during the, year.
with machines, and the piece
work done by girls and boys IN the TWEEN
ty-six factories located here.
Slate roofers receive little enough, con-
the hazardous occupation in
which they are employed. Apprentices
receive 20 cents an hour the first ana sec.
ond years, and 80 cents per hour the thiro
Painters are enjoying a boom in bust
ness and are now more thoroughly or
ganized than ever before, wnlch TACT cam
rot be said of many trades.
The saddle, harness and collar-maKers,
feel keenly, the competition or labor-Sav-
ing machinery operated by boy labor.
Piece-work is the rule
Shirt factories now operate their ma
chimes by steam or electric power, Wnlcn
possesses some advantages in regard TO
Der the men and boys 10 TO l. Piece-work
The stair-builders adapt themselves.
when their line is dull, to the various
other branches of carpentry.
Of the 1.5OO stationary engineers. only
{ 200 to 1900 are licensed according to law,
and they protest frequently against I'M
licensed engineers having charge of
plants claiming they arelnot qualified to
assume the responsibilities of SO serious
an undertaking, and that many lives are
thereby placed in jeopardy. Engineers
receiving the larger salaries are generally
in breweries and the
arger manufacturing plants, and are
1aid such large salaries for the knowledge
hey possess of the business.
The stone maSonS are well organized,
out owing to scarcity of work their num-
Der has fallen off over 1878 per cent. The
;tone-cutters also have a strong union at
good wages. They allow two apprentices
o each employee, who pay them rs cents
/ day for the first year; 81 for second
year, and 81 a day for third year. They
,nly work about half-tiIne.
The marble cutters are poorly organized
Ind work long hours at small pay. The ,
narble-setters, though small in numbers,
ire strong in unionisn, and consequently
eceive fair salaries and reasonable
lours.
The granite-cutters are insignificant In |
strength, but they earn fair