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Show THE BUILDING DEADLOCK. Building traces east and w est con-j tinue to block revival of houses and i business buildings by radical de-J mands, j In many states the building .trades' back the Request of plasterers for an i increase in wages from $1 to $1.50 per hour for the coming year. The situation in the east is complicated by dema:.ds of plasterers' helpers for an increase from S7-90 cents to $1.25 per hour. u .Builders refused to grant their request re-quest for $1.50 per hour for 1921 and .they stopped work, and There are no indications of an early settlement of the dispute. Present rate of $1 per hour for j journeymen plasterers is an increase j of 54 per cent over the rate in 1914,1 while hourly wage of helpers has in- j creased over 94 per cent. I If present dem-'.udo of plasterers j and helpers were granted, the wage of the helper would be but 2 5 cents I per hour less Uian that of the journeyman. jour-neyman. I |