Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-14 | Page 9 | Labor Opposes F E R a Wages

LABOR OPPOSES I FER 1 E R A. A WAGES Increase to Minimum of Last Year Asked by Utah Chief Various Utah Jabor unions Saturday Satur- Satur Saturday day joined in a protest against existing ex ex- F FER E R A wage scales and I sought increase in wages to the min mm- I established last December by bythe the state industrial commission M. M 1 I. I Thompson president of the Utah State Federation of Labor pre the protests to Robert H H. Hinckley Hinckle state FER F E R A administrator adminis- adminis and reque requested ted reestablishment reestablish reestablish- ment of the cent 65 minimum wage for tor unskilled laborers and 2 1 1 minimum for skilled laborers The F FER E R A has established a r minimum wage for unskilled laborers laborera labor labor- ers era In industrial centers at 50 cents cent an an hour and 40 cents in rural areas According to F. F A A. Noller of the Salt Lake BuildIng Trades Trade council the relief agency has set sd 2 1121 per hour as the maximum wage scale for killed laborers instead in in- stead of the minimum as provided by the industrial commission The Salt Lake Federation ot of Labor La- La Labar bar bor in session Friday night passed a motion favoring reestablishment of the cent 65 schedule This resolution resolution reso- reso lution was included in protests filed with Mr Hinckle Saturday Designation of at SevIer county asan as asan an industrial area and increase or of wages there equal with those of other other oth- oth er industrial areas was asked by bv Mr Thompson The Pioneer local labor union of Sevier county telegraphed Mr Thompson Saturday aSking abolition of the F FER E R A practice there of paying unskilled laborers in orders on grocery stores instead of cash