Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-03 | Page 7 | Up Goes Price of Diamonds

UP GOES PRICE OF J S New York Feb retail price of oC diamonds Is to be raised from 5 to tono no 10 n a carat be of an advance or of 12 per cent in wages ages Just granted by bythe bythe the Maiden Lane diamond merchants to members or of the American Diamond Cutters Protective The wage paM paid to polishers Is GO O P week ck The workmen known as who shape shap the diamonds a week Cc Cleavers ot of whom there are arc only two In this coun countr country tr try make a week The Tho union has nn an Iron clad agreement with tIme the merchants whereby no at may be put at work In the tho factorIes except sons or brothers ot of otmen men flieR now employed In the work iter chants asked the union to sign an agreement that no further advance In wages would be required for Cor two years hut their re denied rIme rhe union has lias member in this his city