Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-26 | Page 5 | Recommendations on Wages Being Studied

y Recommendations on Wages Being Studied i The state slate industrial commission ad ad- of Utah's prevailing wage law soon roon to b become ome effective had i under tinder advisement Friday n of a special committee on pub pub- lie lic works wages and the reactions s of f various groups to the suggested scale At a hearing at the capitol Thursday Thurs day afternoon the commission pr pro pre the recommendations to various vari ous Out groups At the instance of M. M t P. P Bales the unemployed council moved that the minimum wage for tor unskilled laborers be 1 1 an hour and the motion carried The recommendations are for a ain in mum unskilled labor laber wage wag of 50 cents an hour and the scale ranges lip to an hour for skilled workers work work- ers such as hoist engineers plasterers plaster plaster- irs ers bricklayers and md shovel operators Enoch Smith contractor expressed S all n opinion that the minimum wage should be at least 5 a day The The commission under an opinion Ii lVe Ilven by Attorney General Joseph Ch Chez is under a direct mandate to fix I b pay definitely on all classes of labor Bi 1 en n public works in the state The TheP f P tw adopted by the 1933 legislature s Is effective In the revised code which is 1 3 to be proclaimed opera opera- I ve some time in July