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Show workmen, through their journals, have begun to protest that the employers are plotting to increase hours of labor. Labor can be made more efficient and its cost reduced without any increase in the hours of work. The workman can produce more by a loyal devotion to his task, by giving the best that is in him for high wages, but that is not the sole means by which efficiency can be increased. The introduction of labor-savin- g machinery was a revelation of the power of the workman to increase his efficiency ten, twenty and even a hundred or a thousand times. Increased wages for each workman, after the introduction of labor saving devices, often resulted in astonishing decreases in prices. More and more the work of the world is to be done by machinery. When labor runs short, as it will continue to do for many years, the manufacturer will be compelled to add the best new machines to keep production up to the level of demand. Sometimes an invention, which is the inspiration of a moment, reduces the cost of production without reducing wages. Moreover, it often builds up an entirely new industry giving work to millions. The telephone, the telegraph, the steam engine, the automobile, the electric light, electric power, the airplane, the motor truck and a dozen other inventions have given work to millions, helped to raise the standard of wages and, at the same time, have not increased prices. Electric power, for example, has so reduced the cost of production in many lines that the manufactured articles have been sold in recent years at a much lower price than they brought before electricity was applied to industry. We must not be deceived by the phenomena of a few months or years. Our losses in the war period have been so vast that we are under an abnormal strain to keep production up to demand. A great hole has been made in our stock of wealth and we are filling up the hole. While that process continues things will be out of joint, but in a few years better because more intelligent labor and better machinery will have made up the deficit and production will begin to gain notably on consumption. The standard of living will rise everywhere and our descendants will live as much more comfortably than we do as we live more contfortably than did the pioneers.. TMB MOMS OF THE BIO O SHOWS Mighty Production That Swept Crltlen In New York and Chicago to the Acme of Motion Picture Praloe A GERALDINE FARRAR with Co-Htnrr- lng LOU TELLEGAN lm Th. WORLD and ITS WOMAN A powerful CSoldwyn (5 drama that will Ntand no an epic In entertainment hlotory STARTING WEDNESDAY High-clas- s, snappy acts THE MOST rORTHflfASl-AlWACfST- BEST HT .1 t LJ (jM best 1 OP travel gifts 'H, box O F Sweet's ASBRIDGE IN THE RACE AMONG the last to file for city commissioner was Otto E. long prominent in organized labor councils. Born and reared in Utah, Mr. Asbridge is thoroughly familiar with civic conditions and problems. He has set his face resolutely against Bolshevism and wild radicalism and it was largely due to his influence and earnest activity that organized labor refused to put into the field and support a ticket that would raise a class issue. As a conservative force in the ranks of labor he has been a potent factor in upholding a wise and sane administration of labors affairs. Undoubtedly he will receive the strongest support among the labor voters. r A thirty-tw- o foot giant has been dug up in Mexico. s. have been one of those roe He must high-liver- We trust the superhen will not prove as much of a failure as the supermen. The men in the bomb industry are striking for recognition. DAnnunzio is a poet of passion. Sweets CHOCOLATES SALT LAKE Popular Here -- The Belgian ruler was welcomed to Salt Lake with a wild acclaim that could be heard almost two feet. The kaiser tried twice to commit suicide and failed. Evidently he is trying to eat his Christmas dinner this year in a. warmer place than Paris. Sold From Alaska to Australia |