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Show The Pen sylvnnln and Redding railroads rail-roads havo increased wages 10 per cent Amalgamated Copper anil Standard Oil havo done tho same, nnd it 5s reported that tho great steel corporation with its 187,000 employees will grant an increase in-crease of 10 percent in wages. Other great onccrnsiind corpora t ons will possibly pos-sibly follow suit in an effort to make wurs commensurate with the increased increas-ed cost of bed, board, rent and extras. Prices of food, rent and clothing havo gone up considerably in tho last ten years. Thero would be more cause for alarm If it were not for the fact Unit with this increased cost work was never so plentiful nnd tho country never so prosperous. Prosperity and plenty are in part the causo of Increased Increas-ed prices. In viow of thenbo.ve facts, why can't tho job printers of Utah County get together and ask living prices for the product turned out by them, Instead of underbidding each other ui.til It is im-jtosslblo im-jtosslblo for tho printer who gets the job to give good work or first chibs material, ma-terial, jny t me a printer can't make wages in his own ollice when he has all the work ho can do. ho Is not getting onough for the work. |