Show carpenters union says no decline in building costs during the past few months there has been an increasing tend ency on the part of both home builders and commercial builders to hold back on construction in the mistaken belief that construe and such various rumor spreading this type of reasoning is fostered by newspaper columnists and radio commentators who have conati buted themselves as experts in the build ng field although they do not know a joist from a truss these self appointed prophets an a decline in building costs and such various rumor ding is doing the construction industry and the nation 1 as a whole a great deal of harm the true facts in the case are that building costs will not de crease in the immediate future more likely the chances are that they will increase instead secondly wages in the building trades have advanced less than wages in almost any industrial field you can mention As a result the building tradesmen are in a poorer economic condition than al most any other kind of worker As an illustration in the august is sue of the carpenter there was an article dealing with the matter the article showed that the 10 house of 1939 now costs 14 to duplicate today it showed that the farmer has to produce 40 per cent less wheat today to buy the 14 house than he had to raise in 1939 to buy the 10 house it showed that at today s wages the factory worker has to work 30 per cent fewer days to baythe buy the 14 house then he had to work at 1939 scale wages to buy the 10 house on the other hand the carpenter has to work 10 per cent longer today to buy the house than he had to work in 1939 this being the case it is obvious that build ing trades wages probably will go up rather than down the same things hold true of other items wh ch enter into the construction costs some build ng materials are lev ley eling off in price but there is no indication that they will decrease d crease in any appreciable amount for years the same thing hold true of land prices the prospective builder who Is holding back for lower prices is playing a losing game if pros builders continue to hold back in anticipation of lower prices a terrific strain will be thrown on the construction md ind astry when the dam finally breaks this is what happened in the late 20 s and that is the sort of thing that we must try to avoid today the people who are saying that building prices will come down in the immediate future are mistaken unquestionably they are do ng a great deal of harm the only way we can straighten out their mis leading talk is by quoting a few facts and figures like the forego ing if someone in your community says that building costs are soon to come down put him right on the matter compared to other commodity prices today building costs are still bargains and bar gains don dont t last forever signed local carpenters union reuben secretary the thoele tooele To oele eagles held their first fall dancing party last satur day n and reported a gay and enjoyable evening the next dance is slated for fot oct and will wil be in n keeping with halloween en it has been brought to my at that the victory cafe dance hall is s under the t h e direction ecta 0 n of 0 f mr M r jooa wood instead 0 of f dir the e two w 0 th that a t I 1 mentioned men toned last week on sunday evening october 12 the th e grantsville Grants ville 1st Ward Cofer ence was held at this meeting the ward bishopric was re organ iced R sterling halladay W les ter boyer and don W |