Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-11-26 | Page 27 | Local Workmen of High Class

lOCAL WORKMEN Vt OF CLASS Mechanics and Architects of This City Rank Among Best in World NO NEED TO IMPORT MEN Salt Lake Labor Organizations Can Furnish Craftsmen for or Any Sort of Work ITI tho the erection of oc many modem modern modern mod mod- W WITH em ern bun buildings s in Salt Lake both large end and small the question has arisen wh why so many of oC the bund bund- ers cra have gone to outside point points not only for tor architects but also for contractors contractors con con- tractors and even cven labor That there thore Is no justification for favoring outsIde outside outside out out- side artisans In preference to local people is the belief bellet of ot many Salt Lake Lako men who are prominently identified with building operations operation That there I is of ot labor in Salt lt Lake Lako both holh skilled 1 and unskilled ant and always S has hns been Is la the tho statement of E. E A. A Dunsby secretary of ot tho the Building Building Build Build- In ing Trades council There Is absolutely no reason why any ono one should go outside of oC Salt Lake lor labor he said V e Ie have under our control here hero more t than tn n 2000 skilled laborers There Uro re Just as good men here in every lino line of oC the building industry In In- In a as can IJ be found anywhere in tho the United States State There here arc are about GOO COO unskilled laborers In our organization organ organ- IZ and of oC these fully seventy per percent percent cent are Idle hUe There is certainly no I saving saying In bringing outside men here In fact tact it co costs ts more The Tho builders of or course must pay the thc transportation and other expenses and in addition must pa pay the local scale I If it the tho rate here I is higher than that which prevails In Inthe Inthe inthe the city from which the tho men were ware brought If the scale here is lower It will wUl cost the builders still more for lor thc they must pay 13 the wages that obtain In the outside point Outsiders Get Work ork The builders themselves do not bring outside men here but so many of them let their work to outside contractors contractors con con- tractors who in many cases bring part or all their cro crows crews s 's with them There are contractors hero here who are entirely competent to construct any kind of ot a structure and they should be given the I preference instead of discriminated I against In favor of ot outsiders as ha has hu been heen done In several notable instances I This Is the case principally lly In the tha erection of ot large business blocks and and I public institutions Not only are local contractors competent but there are ars j several who are aro equipped to handle any kind of a Job no matter how big We Ve have already made a protest against letting so much work to outside men and especially we do believe belie that public public pub pub- lic lie institutions should be given over 01 overto overto to local people Tho service will b be fully tully as good the cost even less lUJ and I the community Itself benefited Craftsmen n Are Axe Ample Of Ot the skilled laborers there ate e about SOO carpenters 5 pla Ur n. n Iron Ironworkers workers bricklayer BO 10 0 stonecutters 76 15 stone stono masons fOO 60 athers lathers lathere 75 15 and mixers 65 sheet metal workers 76 ce cement cement ce- ce ment meat workers and finishers 30 gins glaz glaziers lore lers f CO O 0 hoisting engineers 1 plumbers plumb plumb- ers ens 25 26 and helpers and 25 5 marble workers The percentage of oC those employed now range from twenty to eighty per percent cent Th The Iron workers are ore better off oft offin offin in that respect at present nearly all of ot them being employed in Salt Bait Lako Lake and th the surrounding country I 1 have never seen the time when we could not I supply all the thc help wanted in any any I i branch of ot building labor For none of ot the large structures r i erected or about to be bo erected In ml t Salt Lake has a a. local architect been I called caned upon to to draw the plans This is also true of ot a n. number of ot bungalows arid oth other r residences built this summer When asked the reason renson for tor this ono one of the best known architects in tho the city said There can b bp but one reason reMon and that is A prophet hath bath no honor in his own country Not only the tho architects architects archi arch 1 but the tho builders also lose by going Inside In nearly every Instance where tho he work has been done outside there have been mistakes and mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes which a 0 local man would in all probability have avoided Knowledge of local conditions has a Do great doal deal toI todo to todo do with drawing up satisfactory plans I What might be Just the proper thing in New York or some gome other city might be greatly improved upon here hc-e. Light temperature surroundings and any number of ot strictly local conditions are taken into consideration by the architect architect archi archi- in drawing up any comprehensive l plans lans With these conditions a local man is familiar and acts accordingly Good Local Talent There are good architects here bore just Juit justas as good as can be found anywhere but they lack the reputation A man who contemplates tes building a fine structure thinks he has hns to go SO cast east to get a competent com corn potent man mall lie He seems to think that b because an architect lives here he has not R n reputation but that anybody from some somo outside point has hns Also in erecting a skyscraper he goes east to get a u. man who has already been successful suc sue In building other sJ skyscrapers But Dut while the thc local men have not had experience In drawing plans for real big skyscrapers they would v naturally give inch Mich a Job their whole-hearted whole attention attention atten atten- tion which would not be the case with the big bl- architect of tho the east cast who has hall hasa halla a large amount of or big ig work v on his hands The local manis mans man s reputation would be at stake he lie would attend to every detail etall minutely since he lives Continued on Following l Page