San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28
SKILLED LABOR
SHORTAGE |SNOW
BECOMING ACUTE
uilding Activity Causes
Upward Trend Of
Wages.
JIG ELECTRICAL ORDERS
or First Time January Is
Big Automobile
Month.
IG ELECTRICAL ORDERS
Ry j. C. ROYLE.

hight, 1898. by The San Antonio Light.
New York. Jan. 27.-The upward
hdency of wages in the building
hdes, which for time was halted by
asonal slackening of outdoor construc-
In work, has been resumed. Dis
tches received today from the Pacific
hst report that carpenters have just
wed a demand On the master build
for an increase in wages to So u
h. The present scale. both in open
d closed shops, ranges from S6.4O to
Painters, plasterers and bricklay-
are expected to demand similar
,certages of increase. Building in
BIT section is active and skilled labor
at q premium.
similar demands are expected in 9th
sections of the country as soon as
weather permits the 1923 building
bsrams to get fully under way. This
3dency, experts here declared today,
have a very decided effect on costs
Il on rents and may serve to check
nc, operations because Of the addl.
nal financing required, especially OF
uptrend in lumber, cement. and oth-
building materials. .. --....
Lumber still is in acute demand,
gely because railroad buying of car
terial, bridge timbers and other va
ties has more than compensated for
falling off in needs for building.
Labor Shortage Increasing. ar
.abor shortages are becoming more
tie in other lines. Increased pro-
etion has made many vacancies in
steel mills, merchant tailors and
-ment manufacturers are on a still
ht for skilled men, shoe workers are
good demand and miners are being
led to payrolls in the metal mines
RAPIDLY as they can be secured. Farm
throughout the great grain states oil
Middle West are putting in a part
their spare time this winter urging
hpaigns to force federal legislation
viding for a price fixing commission
powered to adjust prices of farm
ducts TO the current prices for mer-
ndise, to7adjust the tariff to protect
N products and TO- take over sur
SEES of farm products at the world
re. AS there appears little .oppor-
ity for Congress 10 take up such
tiers before next December, when
ther crop will have either made the
ner n profit or shown him loss.
agricultutalists who have planned
are not letting this program of
Station interfere with projected trips
southern California and Florida.
Expect Oil Goods to Advance.
The advance in wrought iron pipe
welded steel boiler tubes we're taken
by to forecast general advance in
prices and oil country goods. Pres
for deliveries is increasing and
sumers are inquiring about steel de-
ries for the second quarter. Pro-
srs are turning back orders more
b 90 days in advance in many cases
ough books could really be filled
strip steel, full finished sheets and
r products. Tinplate is expected
|dvance above S4.75 a base box.
he electrical equipment companies
rh had such "A remarkable year in
are doing even better since Jan.
1. Westinghouse is booking or
at the rate of nearly S12,500.000
honth, according to late reports.
stern Electric has orders on hand
far more than S50.000.000, and IS
Pcted to surpass the 1922 record.
ch was the best in the history of
company. Adjustment Of telephone
in New York City and state may
be even greater congestion in install
pn Of new phones. The New York
(phone Company is far behind fill
applications for installment and
deduction in resident telephone rates
Expected to increase the waiting list.
phone companies in other sections
in in the same shape and equip.
companies are being rushed to
utmost TO furnish these supplies.
70 Develop Old Comstock Lode.
announcement today that British
ing interests will join with AmPri-
capitalists in DEVELOPMENT of the
= Comstock Lode at Virginia City.
has romantic and sentimental
yell as an industrial interest. The
stock not only developed great for.
s. but was the birthplace Of many
frn methods of mining land treating