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Show should co-operate to that end lumber lum-ber and a few sane labor leaders have pointed the way. Revival of a great industry like that of building will have a good effect, ef-fect, ramifying throughout all our ec. onomic structure. Micheal Artery ol Chicago said a mouthful to his mates. HIGH WAGES AND NO WORK Micheal Artery has issued one of the clearest and most logical bits of common sense on a matter of importance impor-tance to .the nation's reconstruction program that has been heard in this land for weeks. Speaking on the contractors' proposal pro-posal to cut wages 12 per cent to a Chicago building trade union of which he is secretary, Artery summed the situation up as follows: "What's the use of making a dollar dol-lar and twenty-five cents an hour if you can't get work? The cost of living liv-ing has dropped 29 per cent in the last year. We are asked to make a cut in our wages to correspond to this decrease. The carpenters' union has rejected the proposal The result is 80 per cent of them are out of work and are not drawing a cent. At the reduced wage they might be working and making a living. Let's trim our wages, boys, and we'll all eat." The union served b Artery unanimously unani-mously voted to accept the wage cut. High costs are killing the building Industry. Materials are too high, with the exception of lumber; labor is too high In relation to the cost of living. All those engaged in the building industry producers of material, ma-terial, employers and workers |
