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Show COST OF LIVING PAY BASIS ASKED Indianapolis Unions Claim ' Idea Would Simplify Negotiations. ,:, - New wage settles to replnce the agreements of various trades unions of the Indlatmpolls district, which expired ex-pired April t, are helng sought by the building trades unions with the Gen-raJ Gen-raJ Contractors' association. The union crafts are seeking auto- imatlc wags increases mid decreases rcorillng to the cltHttges In the cost of living. The unions point out that If these pluns gd through It .would do away . with negotiations each ' year. Union leatlers said they hoped to get a settlement without a strike. ' , Settles of the asltestos workers, ce-s ce-s " ntent finishers, electricians. Iron workers, work-ers, lathers, plasterers and carpenters expired April t. ; , r , , Clutrles Wilson, presldetil of the Building Trades council, said the crafts, would ask for a five-day week. He added that while the five-day week htay not come now It will eventually be a part of the wage agreement "We tiad a hard time getting the eight-hour day," Wilson said, "but as surely as we got that we will get the five-day week." I Wages of asbestos workers are now $1.10 an hour; cement finishers, $1.05; I electricians, $1.25; Iron workers, $1.35; I lathers, $1.25; plasterers, $1.50; car- penters, $1.13. |