Show U r F FARMER IER AND LABOR DE DEMANDS 00 00 In the face fac of the demands of the y h bricklayers of New York for an additional additional ad ad- t increase in wages backed up 1 by the threat of a strike which would tie up two hundred million dollars worth of construction within a ar r month a comparison of the cost of construction at present wages translated trans into food at the prices the farmer gets which was recently printed in The New York Herald assumes unusual interest The fol fol- lowing examples were ere included I It takes take 63 dozen or e eggs n s to pay a plasterer for one day of c I eight hours work j 1 It takes 17 1714 4 bushels of corn com or ayears a years year's receipt from half an acre t to 1 I pay a bricklayer on one one day r R rt takes twentythree twenty chickens r weighing three pounds each to pay paya a painter for one days day's work in New rk I It takes two forty pounds of butter butter but but- ter ler or the output from t fourteen I cows COWl fed and milked for Cor twenty twenty- I four hours to pay a pl plumber 14 a I day r rIt It takes a hog vei bin 1 pounds representing eight months' months I feeding reeding and care to pay a carpenter I Ifor for one days day's work The question arises Do the Hie plasterer plasterer plasterer the tile bricklayer the painter the plumber lumber and the carpenter give any anything any nn thing like adequate returns for the demanded t too oo nn |