Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 20

* Contractors of America. ‘small change mnoted last month to have been the effect of scattered wage . EUST OF BUILI]ING DROPPED IN JUNE | ‘@nalysis " Shows Scattered Wage Reductions Are Cause of Decrease. Costs of construction decreased alightly during June. . The average for the month was on a plane that bas been held quite consistently for / .meveral months, according to statistics compiled by the Associated General An analysis of the cost of building 8 various large cities shows the reductions. The prices paid by con- tractors for materials remained at : the same average they held during May. Study of the relative trends of ywages and costs of materials shows them to be widely divergent. Whereas the costs of materials have constant. 1y been dropping since June, 1923, the average of wages pald in the conm- struction industry is shown to have been steadily mounting since that| time. The building costs, composed main- 1y of these twa elements, have thus maintained a virtually single level. The effect of the upward trend of wages, the statistics show, has been balanced during the past three years by the steady downward _trend of material prices. The result is.that the total costs, following a line at all- times equally distant from the cost of labor and the cost of materials, has shown but small fluctuation. Since August, 1925, the costs of con- struction have remained within a range of three points on an index based upon “conditions in 1913. ‘The {ndex number held at the end of June on this scale was 198, The most recent peak was 208, reached in June, 1923. LABOR WAGE POLICY OUTLINED BY GREEN A. F. L. Head Says High Pay Is Sought on Basis of Increased Productive Ability. Willlam _Green, president of the American Federation of Laber, in his @rticle in the June issue of the Miller ‘Builder-Economist, summed up organ- ized labor's new wage philosophy, in these paragraphs: “The worker's real wages must be increased in proportion to his increas- ing productive power.. “Any wage based upon the cost of living, upon the mere term of ‘saving wage' or upen any similar uncertain |. hypothesis, is unscientific, illogical and transitory. “Organized labor is committed to a peliey of high wages and increasing purchasing power, as Ameriean pros- perity cannot be maintained on any other basis. “Wage reductions produce indus- trial and soclal unrest and low wages are not conducive to low production coets. “It is a historic fact that high wages and prosperity are inseparably associated, while low wages and in- dustrial depression are affinitive. “Real wages of the workers must equip them to buy the commodities which their skill, training and genius produce. “It is obviously necessary in order to avoid a period of ‘overproduction that the purchasing power of the great mass of wage earners must be maintained through the payment of high wages, so they may buy their share of the output of lndustry - SKYSCRAPER IS SAFE ‘DURING EARTHQUAKE Best Place to Be, Says Noted Pro- fessor, in Address to Cali- fornia Builders. 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Moderately * Priced With Terms Individually Arranged 1516 K Street Frk. 5678 M and Builders REAL ESTATE. L Wil Sell ABSO UTE AUCTION "300——CHOICE BUILDING LOTS—-300 In That Beautiful Subdivision | GOOD HOPE HILLS OnNaylorRoud,LyhagPuflyhthoDhtflctandParflymMuyhnd ,WEDNESDAY JULY 21, AT 10 AM. ‘Rainor Shme, on the Grounds Themmaudaof&udunbhmmhldmdybmmbdwidedmdanumberof fine homes built and in course of construction. The Maryland side is now being subdivided and developed, mdahmihdnmbcofcbokohdldh.lflvlflbeo‘endmbotbpnrhofthembdivi-ion,euhlot mg..ldwidltheprivfla.o of uw; adjoining as may be desired, so that unmuke of your homesite to suit you—and REMEMBER, every lot offered will positively be.sold to the LOCATION. AND ADVANITAGES—GOOD HOPE HILLS is just three miles from the center of Washington and is as near the business section as the Million Dollar Connecticut Avenue Bridge. 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