Show THE PRICE OF LABOR advances made in the recent past in prices all branches of labor Enjoy liff belter prices on account of the prosperity of ahe country has labor advanced in utah during the past three years this Is a much mooted question nowadays the fact that the price ot labor has been advanced is so patent that it seems strange anyone can state the contrary the advance is in all lines too and Is not confined to a single industry in conversation with a prominent builder recently a standard reporter learned that the wages in the carpenters trade hava advanced from per day to 3 in this connection it is but fair to state that there has not been a time when carpenters would come out and offer to work for per day as carpenters but they were glad to cover the matter of wages by taking a contract at which they could not make to exceed per day today the price of carpenters is 3 per day and during the season just past the demand has exceeded the supply and it has been difficult to obtain the wages of bricklayers has advanced from per day nominally to and there has been good employment at the latter figure during the past season brick masons have received a similar advance and common laborers have been advanced from to 2 per day and it has at times been impossible to obtain workmen at the advanced figure an incident wilt illustrate this proposition ion at one time jast summer or rather fall the state school for alie deaf and blind wanted a man to do ome work digging mr metcalf asked the supervising architect to furnish the man mr smith caroe down town and asked la number of contractors to furnish the mail he applied to an employment agent and exhausted every resource even to advertising before help was finally obtained then there has been the employment agents there has never been a time when they have been so thoroughly employed as they have been the past season they have had unlimited orders from the lall road companies tor workmen and have been shipping out as many as 40 and 50 men per day tor a long time together besides this the railroad companies have been compelled to ship a large number of men from the cast it has been a notorious fact noted frequently in the standard during the past summer A fair estimate of the number of men imported places the lowest estimate at or men the work for next year i that is now under contemplation looks largely to the labor question as to prices railroad contractors figure closely upon the probable supply of labor in making their figures for next years contracts builders also consider this question and it enters into the contracts ot factories in all lines and la one of the live questions of the day there is no doubt but thol price of labor has been advanced and it will be further advanced for the coming season |