The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1906, Page 1

over 2 penod two generations 2 new Vflrty Crafts Will Sharc‘ ¢ men in men will s, making of 200 1en we ¢ a great co| people. There are nd men of various now employed in the reconstruction wo many who are co Francisco will be rebu years. They do not that the burn over with shac terspersed w scraper or d structure, nently witl more beaut its streets be In such ever about Should su between the t now hathmering a the rebuilding the aver each laborer would a year. Here is New York the ave of the lawyer is $30 from one angle for several thousand m New York bar to cast sheepskin tomes and ings and trek to the Pacifi where the men w the b trowel can live upon the { land while acquiring a c nest egg for the day of rain In San Francisco today mum scale is unive This table shows t! per diem and the a paid 1 wages, being Mintmum Wages Trade— Scal Being Pald. Carpenters . $4 $4.50 and §§ Bricklayers 36 $7 Electricians . $5 $6 and$7 Hodcarriers ....34 $4.50 and $5 Plasterers $7 and$s Ironworlkers (structural) ..$4to $450 $5 and$s Cement Workers ....$2 $3.50 and §4 Cement Finishers .....$5 38 Teamsters (two-horse) ..$2.25 3 Teamsters (four-horse) ..$4 $4.50 and $S Laborers . 32.50 $2.50 Plumbers 38 Lathers to$s 36 to $19 Shinglers $4to 3450 §5 Labor statistics show that the San Francisco workman is receiving the highest wages paid generally any- where in :‘!‘z: w:flin;id:::}fi" 1:"every m t the e will con- e throughout the recon {efiod. There were scarcely uilding trades union men employed in San Francisco before April 18 Secretary O. A. Tveitmoe of the Building Trades Council says that more than thirty thousand are now engaged in’ the rebuilding. thousand workmen have been a ed to the city during the past three months and as they are still coming in. at the end of anot fully ty thousand men will haring the millions to be poured o the re- construction work. Unskilled laborers alone are now receiving $24,000 2 day in San Fran- cisco. As far as it is possible to o accurate estimates at the pre the workmen in the build at present employed are di as follows: Laborers, penters, 10,000; cement plumbers, 1000; hodcarr eIccmu:ms, 1000; painters, %m plas< terers, 250; masons, 3 shinglers, 80; iron workers, sters, 2000. There are many nt"er tr: derrick men. cngx ts in various branc struction work. A Fortune Every Wee The thirty-odd thousand in the list receive in wages $108,000 a day or al most $650,000 a week, when they da not work overtime and on Sundays. In the present rush of temporary con- struction and the beginning of many permanent buildings contracted for completion within limited time, a great deal of extra money is being made. As an example, carpenters working on Sunday have been receiv< ing as much as $25 a day. Just ag resent the full week’s earnings by San Francisco’s army of workmen iy nearer $700,000. This weekly sum will perhap! ba exceeded in the first year because of the vast.amount of em yment thay will be afforded in clearing the deb'u from thousands of lots. n - th sites are cleared and only actual bui Ld ing operations are under way, the most conservative estimate of labor's yearly ‘payroll for the: reconstruc period is from $20000,000 to $2 000,000. If-the city is rebuilt in f years, of course the total annual waga will be much greater. A classification of the earnings of labor presents many interesting feas tures, even though it can only be ob- (Continued on Third Page.) -