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cliaracter of the work, in part because wages in other employ- 

 ments were rising even more rapidly. 



The employers' associations both at Bedford and at Blooming- 

 ton have attempted to establish maximnm wage scales ; and at 

 Bedford, owing in part, it is believed, to the organization of the 

 workmen, the effort has resulted in a practically uniform scale. 

 There remain some variations, but they are few and relatively 

 unimportant, and although the employers claim to exercise the 

 privilege of paying according to the workman's ability, except as 

 they are limited by the maximum scale, the actual rates of pay 

 obtaining in that district appear to prove the tendency of a pub- 

 lished scale, whether maximum or minimum, to become the act- 

 ual scale. 



The producers in the Bloomington district, on the other hand, 

 have not been forced by outside agencies to maintain a uniform 

 scale, and so far as a scale can be said to exist it is the result of 

 custom, combined with a local scarcity of labor. The Monroe 

 County Stone Club has as yet developed no means of enforcing 

 its recommendatious. Its proposed scale is little more than an 

 approximation to the norm of the actual rates obtaining, and, 

 though adopted item by item, has not yet been accepted in its 

 completed form. For purposes of comparison, the scales of both 

 the Monroe County and the Lawrence County (Bedford) associa- 

 tions are given: 



Class. 



Monroe 

 County. 

 RatelPer^Honr. 



Lawrence 

 County. 

 Rate per Hour. 



Head sawyers 



22*c 



22ic 



Sawyers 



17ic 



18ic 



Traveler runners 



27ic 



27ic 



First hookers 



22ic 



22ic 



Second hookers , . . . . 



17ic 



18ic 





15c 



15c 



Planermen 



30c 



28ic 





25c 



25c 



Ingersoll runners 



25e 



25c 





15c 



15-16c^" 





22*c 



22ic 





15c 



15-16c^" 



Steam drill runners 



... 21c 



21e 





15c 



15c 





21c 



21c 





15c 



15c 



Head power men 



18*c 



18ic 





17c 



15c 



Firemen get 16c. 



