Show I Ii i i LE 2 I I m m Pictures of Indians taken at First South and Main streets 50 O years ago I TIME WILL DECIDE LABORING DISPUTE Real neal Estate Men and Unions Locked Horns Over Im Important Important Question WHAT 1910 MAY BRING AMOUNT OF BUILDING PLANNED IS THE REAL REA ISSUE Tile he discussIon ot of routine business In real estate circles was relegated to a aback back seat during the tho past week The con controversy controversy with the labor unions over the labor situation In the city occupied the center of the stage to the exclusion sion of everything else Both sides are still standing pat and both are kept busy advancing arguments in support or of their contentions Advertisements A Inserted by the Salt Lake Real E Estate tate association In some ot of the eastern magazines of general mUon lation asking workmen to come to this city and promising them plenty or of work and good pay on their arrival stirred up the resentment or of the local Building Trades counciL The rhe latter iatter claims that there Is not work even for the union workmen at present in inI inthe the city and that with the addition of hundreds of more laborers the situation would become serious for all clas classes s of f skilled and unskilled labor On the other hand the local Real Estate association maintains that there are not enough workmen In Salt Lake to supply the de demand demand mand during the building season Beason E A Dansby secretary or of the Build BuildIng Building Ing Trades council states th that t about carpenters 76 7 plumbers half haIr the painters ally all the cement workers ana and the Iron workers and hoisting ell en engineers are out of at work Secretary J L I of the Salt Lake Real Estate as association speaking for the majority of the dealers says that there Is no denyIng the tact fact that just at present there are Idle workmen but that as aB soon as opt ii weather comes there will not be enough to adequately carry on building opera operations operations Advertising Fight On OnAs OnAs As the result of the action ot of the local Real Estate association In advertising in inthe inthe the eastern magazines for more workmen the unions lO in the Building Trades council have Inaugurated a campaign in many of the labor journals of the country Instead or of ad adVising unIon men to come to this city to tomake tomake make their home these notices ten tell them to steer clear or of Salt Lake as there are plenty ot of workmen here to fill all the jobs that will be open With the opening up or of the building season and the resumption of construction tion activity proof of the contention ot of otone one or the other will be forthcoming Much 1111 depend say those these not directly interested In the controversy as to whether er the building operations ot of 1910 wIll eclipse tho those e ot of 1908 With greater ity more laborers will be needed Is the claim A prominent real estate dealer who at attended attended tended the meeting of the Wednesday when a reply was ls issued to the statements of the labor unions ns stated yesterday that Salt Lake Lak was great to assimilate ten thousand fam thirty days without caul causing ng sear scarcely ly a ripple to in inform Interra terra form people that anything out or of thE or M ordinary had happened A little sharper harper competition In all lines would result he but that would be for tM the benefit of the city as a whole Needless to say ay the labor unions view such a proposition as this thi with alarm F Work Is Now Tied Up It lb Is conceded by both In the con controversy controversy that building during the past palt week has haA been tied up to a great extent Practically an all or of the work that has be bedone bert done has been on houses the outside walls and roofs ot of which have been corn com completed Wherever It Is possible to dri do work on the Inside contractors are using all the carpenters painters and plumbers they can Contractors generally are as anxious to get through with the build buildIngs ings In course or of construction as the thA owners themselves They realize that with the openIng of at good weather In the will be more mOie active adin I i I I I I P perhaps than ever eer before The Inside carpenter and work ot of the building Is wU wit under way war Within a few weeks now this building should be ready for the lessees of 01 the stores on the ground floor Contractors on the two mammoth ho hotels the Utah and the Newhouse are employing only a small force of men at t Not much progress is possible with the present weather conditions With the coming of open weather a ra will be on In construction work such as Salt Lake has hal never seen Ifen bp be before fore Little has haR been n saId b by the Thomp company general company for t the N Newhouse hotel anI and James Stewart Co general contract contra contractors ors for the Utah hotel with revard to to this phase or of the situation People who have watched elo elY the various moves of at tit the two companies on thc checkerboard are convinced iJ that there wilt will be a lively race on hn en spring up At titer thee Is a slight advantage In favor of hotel as ast s 1 t more work has b been tn done on the More BuIlding Coming It Is known that negotiations are on for a number of of p rop op rt In Indications are however that these deals t a t will not be consummated until aft after the first or of the vl year ar It is iR that en an amount a over h half a million dollars Is I involved In these The ih largest deal during the past rast w week k was that of the tho purchase by bv the Realty and the Exchange e Real company of two pieces of prop rh arty an fronta frontage of 1 n t on Fourth South street between Vain Main and amI t from IM Isaac C BroK hanT hak an Dr A S Bow Bower for an amount RId raid to be The Continued on Page Four j TIME WILL DECIDE LABORING DISPUTE Continued From Page One property was purchased for tor speculative purposes While the past week was not charac characterized characterized by any great activity of the mar market market ket still it If was a amuck much better week than is usual at the close of December All the dealers got their hands In the business pIe Contrary to the experience of past years ears the dealers handling suburban ad additions found a fair market for lots Many persons are buying lots now with the Idea of building homes as soon as the weather opens open up |