Shawnee County KS Archives News.....Cost $.150 An Hour: Electrical Labor: August 7, 1919 August 7, 1919 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Laird jlaird@bellsouth.net December 29, 2009, 11:38 am The Topeka Daily State Journal, Thurday, August 7, 1919 August 7, 1919 Cost $1.50 An Hour. Electrical Labor Rises Since Settlement of Price. Electrical labor costs the consumer $1.50 an hour since the settlement of the electrician's union strick Monday. Before that time the same labor cost the consumer $1.35 an hour. The electrician's local, No. 226, went on strike last Friday alleging that the local association of electrical contractors wished to insert an objectionable stipulation in a new contract with the union. This stipulation was alleged to provide that the electricians would refuse to work on any jobs which were not being done by the members of the contractors' association and that they would refuse to install wiring or fixtures not furnished by members of the contractors' association. The contractors' association, thru H.S. Lee, secretary, denied that this stipulation had been offered the strikers as one of the terms of the new contract. The strike was settled Monday morning, when the union men returned to work. The new contract with the union gave the men an increase in pay of 17 1/2 cents an hour. The old scale was 70 cents an hour and the new scale is 87 1/2 cents an hour. Additional Comments: KS-FOOTSTEPS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/newspapers/cost150a487gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb