Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — CONVICT LABOR CONTRACTS [ARTICLE]

CONVICT LABOR CONTRACTS

State to Get 65 Cents a Day From Chair and From Stove Companies. Indianapolis, Sept. 28.—Two ten-year contracts for prison labor at the state prison have been let by the board of trustees at an Increase of from 10 to 17 cents a day over the price paid in the present contracts under a short term period. The labor of 400 prisoners is to be disposed of In the two contracts. The first of the contracts was with the Ford & Johnson Chair company, which is to employ 200 men at 65 cents each a day. The second contract was let to the Mount Ayre Stone company, which receives granite in the rough and manufactures it into grave stones and monuments. This company also bid 65 cents a day for 200. There remain a number of other contracts to be let, but the board has a year in which to make the disposals.