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In concrete work, carpenter locals often claim the
right to strip the forms from completed work although in
most cases this work, as well as unloading and carrying
lumber, is still within the province of the laborers. Even
in the finishing trades as painting, there is a continuing
demand that the cleaning up of the job be done by skilled
men.
i
Each of these has been evaluated and the proper distribution
between skilled and unskilled made for the particular
year and trade under consideration. It Is, therefore,
not possible to obtain exact percentages; however, we
do know that some of the apparent decrease in common labor
onsite manhours results from jurisdictional demands of the
skilled crafts.
III. KATE OP WAGE INCREASE--JOURNEYMEN
AND LABORERS
The trend of actual hourly wage rates for union
journeymen and laborers together with real hourly wage rates
based on 1913 as one hundred is shown in Figure l£. With
the exception of a brief post World War I dip in 1922 and
the more prolonged drop of the early 1930fs, actual construction
wages have risen steadily although, in terms of
real wages, gains have been somewhat less. This trend was
noted in Chapter VI; however, here we see that journeymen
and laborers have each experienced a somewhat different rate;
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| Full text | 88 In concrete work, carpenter locals often claim the right to strip the forms from completed work although in most cases this work, as well as unloading and carrying lumber, is still within the province of the laborers. Even in the finishing trades as painting, there is a continuing demand that the cleaning up of the job be done by skilled men. i Each of these has been evaluated and the proper distribution between skilled and unskilled made for the particular year and trade under consideration. It Is, therefore, not possible to obtain exact percentages; however, we do know that some of the apparent decrease in common labor onsite manhours results from jurisdictional demands of the skilled crafts. III. KATE OP WAGE INCREASE--JOURNEYMEN AND LABORERS The trend of actual hourly wage rates for union journeymen and laborers together with real hourly wage rates based on 1913 as one hundred is shown in Figure l£. With the exception of a brief post World War I dip in 1922 and the more prolonged drop of the early 1930fs, actual construction wages have risen steadily although, in terms of real wages, gains have been somewhat less. This trend was noted in Chapter VI; however, here we see that journeymen and laborers have each experienced a somewhat different rate; |
