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Show DEPARTMENT HEADS DRAFTSAGE SCALE City, County and State Workers Suggest Uniform Uni-form Schedule of Pay. To discuss questions which have arisen in previous years regarding the variance in wage scales of the city, county and state for road work, engineers from the j three road commissions met yesterday at , tho office of the state road commission. ! At this meeting a uniform scale of w'ages i for the coming year was drafted. Tins scale needs to be approved by the execu- t tives of the different public departments. . Charles F. Stillman, county commissioner, 1 who attended the meeting with George i F. McGonagle, state engineer; Ira R. Browning, state road engineer, and Sylvester Syl-vester Y. Cannon, city engineer, stated after the meeting that the county would probably approve the schedule. , The "engineering department monthly wage scale is as follows: Principal assistant as-sistant engineer, $225; bridge engineer, $225; district engineers, $200; office engineer, engi-neer, $175; chief draftsman, 175; resident engineers, $175; locating engineers, $150; draftsmen, $150 to $160; tracers, 100 to $135; lovelmen, $120; rodmen, $100; chain-men, chain-men, $S5. Mr. Gonagle said after tho meeting that state engineering parties would re-ceive re-ceive their board in addition to the wage scale. The scale proposes the following da Uy wages for other employees: Foremen, $5 to $7; strawbosscs, $4; common labor, $3.50; night watchmen (12 lifiursi, $3.50; teams and men (with equipment), $7; tool sharpener, $5; blacksmith, $6; drillers, drill-ers, $4.50; powder men, $5 ; steam roller men, $5 ; mechanists, $' ; shovel engineers, engi-neers, ?S. Earlier in the' day a conference was held in the governor's office, relative to the work program in Utah to care for the returning soldiers. No definite plans were adopted, but a general speeding up of all state and county work was promised by I he officials. - Governor Bamberger asked .that all state work' be expedited to create immediate employment for the greatest number of men in as many lines of work as possible. The meeting was attended by Major Fred Jorgensen. adjutant ad-jutant general of Utah; Xephi L. Morris, of the state council-. of defense, represen- ! ta tives from the city, county and state road commissions, and Harden Bennion, secretary of state. j |