Show Wood and Kunz To Submit Bid For Federal With bids for the construction Of bt the federal building In Cedar City to be opened next Tuesday in Washing Washing- Washington ton the federal building committee of the chamber of commerce Is s working feverishly to complete arrangements and get a local bid in for the job Meetings have been held almost daily daily dai dai- ly to complete the arrangements for fora a bond that must accompany the bid with two plans being worked on the securing of a bond from a Surety company or getting local people to supply the bond George Ceorge A. A Wood and Hyrum Kunz who are doing the figuring for the organization spent the first of the week In Salt Lake City obtaining figures fi figures H- H gures on materials etc and the bid should now be ready for In the meantime many have been received by Postmaster H. H H. H Lunt and the chamber of commerce from out of state contractors regardIng regarding regarding regard regard- ing the prevailing wages here and the possibility of letting sub-contracts sub obtaining obtaining obtaining ob ob- material etc Just what the prevailing wage will willbe willbe be placed at In this locality is not definitely known at present but it should be somewhere near the wage I schedule now being enforced by the federal government on the construction construction construction tion of the federal building in Salt Lake City The scale there is as follows follows fol fol- follows fol- fol lows Bricklayers and stonemasons 11 U per day plasterers 10 10 carpenters Iron workers plumbers steam fitters tile setters and electricians 9 cement finishers painters and sheet metalworkers metal metalworkers workers 8 bricklayers' bricklayers tenders 5 roofers 6 plasterers plasterers' tenders common laborers 4 and lathers 0 II cents per yard The schedule might be lower than that In this section because because because be be- cause in sections where there are labor labor la labor la- la bor unions such as in Salt Lake wages are usually kept at a a little higher level than in sections where there is i no such organization |