The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-04-29
LABOR WA|VTS.UN|0|I
SHOP. AND. M0RE.PAY
st. Paul Building Trades Unions
In General Demand For Bet:
ter Conditions.
WAGES HIGHER IN MOST =.
CASES THANIN DULUTH
Believed Employers Will Readily
Agree To Claims For
More Wages.
ST. PAUL, April q. Especially

ST. PAUL, April 81. Especially
The near approach of May day has
awakened in this community a very
general interest In the attitude of the
labor unions, the demands they are
making on the employers of their
members and the prospects for peace
or war in industrial lines of activity.
1T is gratifying to be able to state
definitely and positively that the
outlook is altogether cheering and sat
isfying. Everything is serene. Not
one cloud darkens the sky of st. Paul.
and all the building trades unions are
we'll pleased with their present status
and their prospects for the coming
year.
The building trades are united in a
determined effort to obtain union shop
conditions for the members of their
several crafts and this is all some of
them are asking for. The carpenters,
the plumbers and the steamftters are
asking for nothing more. and will have
no new demands to make for some
time to come. These and all the other
building trades unions will, however,
keep on working for the union shop
without any abatment Of their energy.
Plasterers Ask for Liberal Raise.
The plasterers are striving to get an
increase of 60 cents a day in their
wage scale, which will raise their pay
from 81 II to 20 cents an hour. They
work eight hours day with a half
holiday on Saturdays.
Cement workers have made a. de-
mand for an increase Of 40 cents a.
day, and they and the plasterers fully
expect to get what they are asking
for.
Union painters in. this city are now
getting so cents an hour. The union
has put in a request for a lift of
cents an hour, which would make
their scale $40 a day. The matter
has not yet been settled and negotia-
tions on it are still pending, but it
seems probable that the new rate will
go into effect next Afonday. -. -:
Sheet Metal Workers Ask 6e1x Cents.
A raise, of 7k cents an hour will
satisfy the sheet metal workers, and
they are making earnest efforts to get
it, with good prospects of success.
They now are getting IS cents an
hour. !.
BY vigorous and judicious efforts
the hod carriers have already obtained
a wage scale: of So a. day and union
shop conditions, which are decided
gains for them, as heretofore their
pay and working conditions have been
rather irregular and uncertain. f.
The metal lathers have made a de-
mand for wage of IS a day, and the
demand has been granted by all except
two of the employers. These are ex-
pected to yield to it and probably will
do so by the time the new building
year starts The wood lathers are ask
ing for $3.50 a day and they have
every reason to believe they will get
it without trouble.
Tile Settlers Good for Two Years.
Everything is pleasant for the tile
settlers for the last two years. They
have made a. two-year agreement with
all their employers with a wage scale
of 1925 a day for 1916 and $3.50 Tor
1917.
In accordance with a three-year
agreement made two years ago inside
electrical workers will advance 25
cents a day from May I, making their
scale 56 II cents an hOur