Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-12
UNION SCALES
 SHOW INCREASES

The union scales of wages and hours of labor for 1O1 of the principal trades in 4s of the leading cities in the United States prevailing in May, 1916, are published in bulletin No. PA, just issued by the bureau of la Dor statistics of the U:.;-c.,. cto.tes de- partment of .labor. The scales shown are those of the baking, brewing, building, freight handling, stone, met al, millwork, printing, soft drink, and 1 teaming trades.
 1 Reports of weekly wages were re- ceived from 99 trades. In 80 of these trades the average rate of wages, taken collectively, was higher on May l 15, 1916, than on May 1, 1915. In 19 trades there was no change. and in no trade was the average rate lower. The bakery trades, collectively, received an advance of 2 per cent. All but one of the IT brewing trades listed in this report received an increase rang ing from to 8 per cent. Thirty of the 37 building trades listed received an increase of from 1 to II per cent. Chauffeurs, teamsters, and drivers re- ceived an increase of 3 per cent. Freight handlers received the greatest increase in any one occupation-14 per cent. Granite cutters had an increase of per cent. All of the metal trades gained an increase of from to 10 per cent. Millwork painters Hardwood finishers) received on increase of 12 per cent. $n book and job printing 9 of the II tardes received an increase, in no case, however, above per cent. IV@ Nf% rrssr, .%O1 scl, the increase was from to per cent in the several occupations.
 Considering the rates of wages per hour as distinguished from rates per week of the 1O1 trades, 83 showed an increase, IS showed no change, and for none was the rate lower. Taken collectively, rates per hour in 1916 were per cent higher than in 1915, per cent higher than in 1914, IA per cent higher than in 1910 and 19 per cent higher than in 1907.
 The highest scales per hour paid in May, 1916, in a few of the principal trades. were as follows: Bricklayers, S7:5 cents in Dallas, Houston, Denver, and San Francisco; carpenters, 70 cents in Chicago; portable and hoisting engineers, 75 cents in Chicago, De- troit, Newark, New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco; bod carriers, 50 cents in Portland, Oreg., St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Spokane; inside wiremen, 75 cents in Chicago and St. Louis; painters, 70 cents ill Chicago; plasters, 87.5 cents in Dallas, Houston, and San Francisco; plumbers and gas filters, 75 cents in Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Hous- ton, Kansas City, Portland, Greg. St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle, structural iron workers, 75 cents in San Francisco; granite cut ters, 75 cents in Boston; stone cutters. 70 cents in Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Spokane, compositors on book and job work, 54.2 cents in Den Yer and Salt Lake City, and on news papers printed in English (daywork) 1, 1 75 cents in Seattle. linoytpe operators on book and job work and on newspa- pers printed in English (daywork), 75 cents in Seattle.
 ] As to changes in hours of labor, 3l ]! trades showed reduction of hours be- tween 1915 and 1916, and 69 trades had 1 no change. Only one trade, machinist operators in book and job printing, had