Show KILLING oll OFF ol l BUILDING THE agreements recently made in several northwestern cities between contractors organizations and building trade unions will reduce the volume of 0 building to a minimum la in several cities these wage scales are as high as five and six dollars a day for common labor on building work and mechanics from eight to ten dollars a day for or 8 9 hours this seems satisfactory to the contractors and so called master builders who figure that they get a percentage on all labor and materials and are indifferent to high scales but what right have they to tie the hands ot of the community to keep down building operations by frightening the average citizen out of all notions of doing any building whatever that is what it amounts to as only big corporations big manufacturers banks and departments stores who can add the cost to the tha consumer can undertake any building the common run of citizens still count their money closely nine tarn fam alies out cut of 0 ten belong to the working class and cannot shift their burdens and cannot build fair wages after all are wages at which the most workers are employed and not the least and present wage scales are almost prohibitive and tend to kill building enterprises tile the manufacturer |