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Show LOUD IS THE CRY FDR MORE MEN California Needs Forty Thousand Thou-sand Laborers, and Will Pay Good Wages. RAILROADS ALONE ARE SHORT FIFTEEN THOUSAND Grape Crop of the Coast May Go to Waste Before Help Arrives. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. The demand for labor in Calitornia promises prom-ises to exceed the supply for many months to come. Tho railroads want a large number of laborers for prospective prospect-ive -work and that under way. Tho Southern Pacific needs 3000 men, tho Western Pacific 7000, the United Railways Rail-ways of Sau Francisco 3000; tho outside out-side electric lines building in the Santa Clara, San Joaquin and Sacramento val-levB val-levB and southern California want 2000. The steam railways report a demand for switchmen, warehousemen and even clerks. Tho reconstruction of San Francisco, tho very large railway extensions ex-tensions and improvements, the unusually unusual-ly heavy .crops, and development work in national ancHocal irrigation-projects, and in mountain power plants, have worked together to create a tremendous demand. Vineyard Men Needed. Tho vinoyardists of tho San Joaquin valloj', alarmed at tho harvest outlook, have appointed committees to canvass all available fields for help. There are 350.000 tons of grapes to be gathered and, by piece-work, good men, with tho wages offered, will make from $2.25 to $3.o0 per day. The beet crop3 along the coast lino and in southern California Califor-nia aro very heavj', and the prune crop in the Santa Clara valley is double that of last year. m Tho greatly increased demand de-mand forjCalifornia lumber, both in tho East and locally, causing mills to run night and day, has doubled the demand for mill men. Contractors Need Help. A thorough canvass by a local committee com-mittee in San Francisco shows that subcontractors sub-contractors in building trades are having hav-ing either to throw up contracts or secure se-cure postponements because of scarcity of workmen. The Building Trades council advise that there is a great shortage of men in the building trades. There is a strong demand for 20,000 houses to be built in Sau Francisco immediately, im-mediately, but the artisans necessary to do tho work are not here. It is estimated esti-mated that nearly one-jhalf of u billion dollars is to bo spent in reconstructing ban I'rancisco in the next live years. This work is already being delayed on account of actual and prospective lack of labor. Fifteen thousand more men can find read' employment in reconstruction recon-struction work at good wages. Wages Are High. A minimum wao for laborers on railroad rail-road work and in warehouses in San Francisco is now $2.25 per day. Bricklayers Brick-layers are receiving $7 and $8 for an eight-hour day, with a minimum wage of $13. Cement workers get $5, hod-carriers hod-carriers $4, plasterers $6, stone-cutters $4.75, carpenters $4, cabinet makers $3.50, mill men $3.50, lathers $6, shing-lers shing-lers $4. painters $4, fresco painters $5, paper hangers $4, plumbers $5, machinists ma-chinists $3.75, tinners $4, sheet metal workors $4, glaziers $4, stationary engineers engi-neers $4. There is a very strong demand at high wages, varying according to tho work, for teamsters and electricians. Altogether, California offers employment employ-ment to not less than 40,000 men at the highest wages on record. |