Carpenter . on ofthis body have almost unanimously voted tomake a demand upon the contractors for arate increase from $ to $ per dayof eight hours. We feel that consideringthe greatly increased cost of living and theconsequent impossibility for the carpentersto decently subsist on present wages, willappeal to the employers, and we anticipatelittle trouble in getting our reasonable de-mand acceded to. The increase is to takeeffect April 1, 1910. ??? ?J* »?? District Council, Kansas City, Mo.—Thevarious Local Unions of Kansas City andvicinity, by an overwhelming vote, decided todemand a
Carpenter . on ofthis body have almost unanimously voted tomake a demand upon the contractors for arate increase from $ to $ per dayof eight hours. We feel that consideringthe greatly increased cost of living and theconsequent impossibility for the carpentersto decently subsist on present wages, willappeal to the employers, and we anticipatelittle trouble in getting our reasonable de-mand acceded to. The increase is to takeeffect April 1, 1910. ??? ?J* »?? District Council, Kansas City, Mo.—Thevarious Local Unions of Kansas City andvicinity, by an overwhelming vote, decided todemand a half-holiday on Saturdays and awage scale as follows, to go into effect May1, 1910: foremens wages shall be 65cents and journeymens wages 55 cents perhour; half-holidays on Saturday, to be ob-served not later than sixty days after thetaking effect of the raise in wages. Jour-neymens wages at present are $ perday. Prospects for gaining our demand arevery favorable. (Continued on page 53.)36. Some Problems in Stairbuilding.—X. (Morris Williams in Carpentry and Build-ing-) Our next subject for consideration is astairTray starting -with a large curve of 32in. radius, the curve containing eight risers,as shown from the newel at A to the spring-ing line at C of Fig. 65, which represents a We show in Fig. 66 how to lay out theface mold for the wreath over and above thecurve at the bottom from the newel on thefirst floor to the hight of the eight risers con-tained in the curve. The first process is todraw the elevation of these risers, as indi-cated from c to c, in Fig. 66. From thepoint c draw a few of the straight stepswith the pitch board, as indicated by the
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