And then the material really hit the fan! In 1967 34.9 68 49.6 The 1968 settlements in construction were over 3 1/3 times higher than those in oil, trucking, and rubber and 5 times the size of settlements in the automobile and cannery industries. And there is every indication that future labor demands will be even higher! Present guesses are for 53 in the skilled crafts and 43 for the unskilled, but some are predicting even more. Certainly we cannot consider construction workers among the disadvantaged. On the average they receive with fringes $5. 85 an hour. The recent settlement in the building trades in Buffalo brought raises totaling $3.35 over three years - 75 June 1st, 25 December 1st, $1.10 in 1970, and $1.25 in 1971. By 1971 bricklayers will be receiving $9.67 an hour and the driver as low man on the totem pole $8. 52 1/2. Nor will the wage increases in the construction industry be offset in any large measure by increases in productivity. The earth movers, like the miner, have been able to utilize larger and more efficient equipment and hold their prices reasonably well. But they are a small segment of the total industry. In the building segment of the industry, the productivity gains have been minimal. While the nature of the work limits to some extent the progress has been needlessly thwarted by archaic building codes and union resistance, supported by the courts, to the use of more efficient methods and advanced technologies. (The Supreme Court has upheld the refusal of the Philadelphia Carpenters