Carpenter . ll our mem-bers from surrounding towns to supply thefair contractors in this city. Our calls for eight hours per daj and$ minimum per day. * Prince Albert, Sask., Can.—Our move-ment for a nine-hour workday and 45 centsper hour has been successful to a certainextent, ten of the master builders out offourteen having signed our agreement forone year. However, since we entered inthis movement we have found that someof the builders are employing non-unionmen and working them ten hours per day,while the union men quit at 5 p. m. andonly work nine hours. They pay all men45
Carpenter . ll our mem-bers from surrounding towns to supply thefair contractors in this city. Our calls for eight hours per daj and$ minimum per day. * Prince Albert, Sask., Can.—Our move-ment for a nine-hour workday and 45 centsper hour has been successful to a certainextent, ten of the master builders out offourteen having signed our agreement forone year. However, since we entered inthis movement we have found that someof the builders are employing non-unionmen and working them ten hours per day,while the union men quit at 5 p. m. andonly work nine hours. They pay all men45 cents per hour; the non-union men re-ceive 45 cents per daj^ more than the unionmen. This is a matter which now remainsfor us to straighten out. A country becomes great not on thebasis of the accumulation of property, buton the basis of the distribution of prop-erty. A country with plenty of wealthowned by a few is poorer than a countrywith less wealth owne^ •^v all.—HoraceTraubel. 46 CRAFT. LEMS C 3 Practical Architecture and Drawing (By Prof. A. Edward Rhodes.)Lesson 9. Many architects do not show the cornicedetails of tlie smaller houses, leaving thecarpenter to follow his own free will inthe matter of shapes and sizes used. Thisis all right, sometimes (when the carpen-ter feels that it is up to him to make itright). Some architects do show the fram-ing for the gutter, if the honse is box-guttered, in a Vi inch equals 1 foot scale,sectional view, and depend on this sec-tional view and the exterior elevationsto show the carpenter all that he shouldbe told about the construction of thecornice. In talking over this matter withsome of my friend architects recently, theyall took exception with me on the groundsthat the architect cannot take the timenecessary to show all these smaller detailsfor the usual percentage allowed for mak-ing the plans, etc., for smaller houses. I do not agree with them, because inmy own practice I have proven that it ispossible to show these deta
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