Show QUESTION QUESTON OF LIVING WAGE WAGES Subscriber S Thinks Sewer Laborers Are Unfairly Treated and sewer contractors are referred to in a letter written to The Herald by b a subscriber who seems in In the present labor situation in alt Lako He lIe asks whether it is right for or the sewer contractors to re redu du due dut e wages because work is 9 scarce and takes tal es The Herald to task for or hav hay having havIng ing in said sald the men employed on the sewers were being paid a living wage The Herald did not say that the men W were ero ro receiving a living wage but rd hI I an informant to the effect that such iQ was as the ease case t The letter signed A Subscriber is as follows I 1 read in your our paper that the Amer Ainer Americans hans knos with families woud would be given glyen preference rence over oyer foreign labor on the sewer sever work in the city After Investigating Investigating Investigating gating I must say you have either been bren misinformed or you refuse to publish the true conditions The Her Herald Herald ald aid said the men employed on the Ewers were being paid a living wage Do you consider a day of eight hours a living wage Those digging on First North street are making even een less working for 25 5 cents a linear foot toot tootI I also noticed that there thore were two for foreigners eigners to one American who were working on the excavation of the pro proposed posed new depot yesterday morning Do you think it Is right for these sp sewer r to refuse to pay 25 2 and a day which is what they paid during the summer and tall fall Imply Imp because work Is scarce Living its is high as It was last summer and would like to know how you figure It ct that a day da Is a living wage |