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Show A LESSON FROM THE BOOM. The Standard has never been in favor of false booming. This paper has advocated a sane policy of upbuilding, but nothing bordering bor-dering on an inflation. As a consequence, Ogden today is growing steadily, regardless of the depression in such towns as Salt Lake. Here is an item from last evening's Deseret News wrhich discloses dis-closes a regrettable condition of the boom in that place : That there arc at the present time at least 2,000 idle men within the ranks of organized labor in Salt Lake, and more than that number in the unskilled trades, was the statement made Tuesday night by representatives of the building trades council. That the number of idle men is increasing almost daily and will continue to do so from now on during the winter, was the further statement. Speaking of the local labor situation Jack Munsey, of. the building trades counoiL said: "The lists of idle men in the different unions embraced in the trades council show a conservative estimate of at least 2,000. There are 16 trades represented in the council, coun-cil, and each union is carrying a list of idle men that mil vary from 20 to 200, and in one or two instances the figures will go to 250 men. Building operations are on the wane, each few days see the completion of a building that has been under construction during the summer, but there are practically no new buildings being started to offset this, and consequently the idle list is being constantly added to." The foregoing scarcely needs a word of explanation. Salt Lake has been building oastles in the air. Suddenly there has been an awakening and the investors have come back to earth the chimera has given way to stern reality. The sufferers are the laboring labor-ing people and merchants of Salt Lake. Let us hope Ogden will continue along present lines, gradually advancing, and expanding as business and the great natural resources re-sources of this section warrant, so that at no time will we be burdened bur-dened with our own unemployed, nor otherwise distressed with the evidence of wild speculation. |