Show ROAD commission SETS WAGE SCALE ON STATE PROJECTS 4 the plans under which the state j will expend on emergency construction highway projects before befaro next july 1 I setting forth wages that must be paid and conditions under which contracts must bo be taken was announced by the commission the first drat ot of the week in accordance with regulations gated by the federal government the work to bo be furnished in this man ador will be widely distributed over the slate and a a amount ot of that first stage construction erwi vt t must tic be included in tle the program contractors Contract oia will bid Bu baublet blet to pro r they aliey will 11 n employ skill ed or unskilled ailed labor more than 30 hours a week that the unskilled labor will be selected from lists to bo be fur fished by local committees designated by the state road commission und and that hand labor will replace machine labor under certain specified condl eions and in general so far as possible contractors Contract ora may not pay their un skilled labor less than 48 cents an hour nor skilled labor loss less than GO 60 cents an hour they must pay a mw mini mum ot IT 17 cents co hour per horse for or teams where hore boarding campa camp are necessary they may not charge more ulan than 90 cents per day tor for b board ard ii an keeping with tho the spirit ot of tho the emergency unemployment act and to show abow entre cooperation with the tha federal government in the object sought to provide employment and to afford af ford as many as aa possible a chance I 1 to sustain themselves and their tarn fain I 1 alles it la Is reported the state borki corn com irU islon la Is contemplating making similar regulations to cover all state projects undertaken during the same period considerably loss losa than one half of tho the nillo ago on tho the state elate road batem Is on the federal aid system and the tha federal moneys may be ex mended vended only on federal aid highways li it Is also reported that tho commis slon might even go farther mid apply the same system on a 30 hour wook an other as aai tar far as pos sible bible to tho the regular work which la Is done by the state entirely out of 0 state funds at 43 cents lor for a 30 hour week it was waa pointed out by henry 11 II blood chairman of the commission a corn com inon laborer would be able to provide 1440 a week lie ile will ivill have available ot at least IS 18 hours ot of a 48 49 hour week which ho he might be able to turn to some advant ango ange to himself should lie ha be able to make such auch period worth an all avenge ot of 20 cents an hour his work would yield 18 1 but it the work woric li is such that a road construction camp is necessary the work belne being far remold from the homes ot of the local la laborers borem he would have no way of 0 turning such lional time to advantage on the other hand neither he ha or the contractor would want min him to spend so much additional idle time in camp rna cind lils his board charge would bo be going on regu barly hence it la Is argued perhaps an altow allowance alto mice ol of 37 t la 12 2 cents an hour for 48 hour week under such special conditions might tie be found advisable it would yield the 18 a week less the board chrame and so BO be somewhat equivalent to the 1440 received by the common laborer on a n project whore a camp visa vis a unnecessary iron county record |