Show Asks for Wage Hike For Capitol Workers Editor o of The Telegram Justice where art thou Our state industrial commission today to too day decided that all aU common common- labor will be increased to 60 cents or more mOl per hour This will affect about 13 13 men in Utah This decision was wa decided on by all three commissioners commission commission- ers s after alter carefully investigating liv liVing fly liV- ing conditions in Utah and is fol fo- lowing out the wishes of President Franklin D D. Roosevelt who said that every man has a right to earn a living wage Now I would ask our state slate Ind industrial indus trial commission to Investigate conditIons conditions condi condi- that are existing at our state capitol May 1 1 1933 the janitor force torce was cut to half halt time or 15 days each month at 45 each There are four lour men working at a time and each man Is supposed to do what took two men prior to May I 1 1933 These 1 men besides putting In eight hours hours' each day perform the duties o of watchmen Saturday afternoons and Sundays Sunda's which averages aVerage about hours In 15 13 days das and the pay averages average 37 2 1 cents per hour or 22 2 2212 2 1 cents per hour less than the state industrial commission says common labor should get Since May 1 1 1933 when the janitor janitor jani jani- tor force torce was cut in two robberies at the state capitol have increased to toan toan toan an alarming condition as there are not enough men to properly perform the duties of janitors and watchmen of a building I would ask that the state industrial d demand mand the janitors of the state capitol be employed four weeks each month and proper wages wages- be paid them FAIR PLAY |