Show up BUILDING i WORK WOR SA SAYS Cabinet 11 Member Appeals 1 f for Quick Resumption of o All All' Construction Construction Activities No Now War T ar Is Finished I I BOSTON BOSTO DOST Dec Dee 30 An An appeal l for I 1 tho immediate r resumption of I road building pu public lic works works and anti construction construction con con- I I in general tb throughout tb the United States is contained contain d in ill a n meSsage message mes meS- I sage sent by y William B. B Wilson secretary see sec cc- cc of la labor or to a conf conference of I state officials and industrial representatives I tatins at nt the state house toan Secretary Wilson had expected a to attend the conference but as he ho was unable to reach rench here in time lime he lie incorporated in incorporated in- in his views in a n telegram to Koger Iger W. W B BabS s represented tc him v O Ov I Jo Ju support of ot hiM appeal the secre secretary's I I tary's message said Building Is an m industry which Is not inflated and which has not been put on n an artificial basis by the war It employs all classes of or labor llo lIow COt Cost Gen flack Building enables most of ot the cost costlo to lo get Set back into the tho workers' workers profits it makes little dIfference difference dif dIf- ference to the worker who builds If It the cost of oC building should bo ho 20 O per cent loss a few years cars hence for tor then through Idleness hl hh his Income would be corre correspondingly cut down Building creates permanent wealth Increases the taxable property of or the tho community and Is a form torm of at wealth subject to little depreciation Building makes for tor good citizenship and It is tho only safeguard a Bolshevism As some ono has asked Did Phi you OU ever er see ice tho red flag of or an anarchy anarchy an- an arch archy flying over a mans man's own o hearthstone hearthstone hearth hearth- stone ton e I 1111 n nn be tabulated and regulated regu regu- We 0 khow know Just how many are arc being built hullt as an permits must ho bo secured for all We can caa allot bull building to communities com corn as ono one would allot quotas Ii Iia In Ina a Liberty loan campaign Th The construction construction con con- on Industry stands out almost alone In Its ability to be regulated and andS S stimulated t I n u I a ted De Deferred erred construction construct i Is really apart apart a apart part of oC our war ar debt it should bo be ono of the first accounts to be paid unless the tho country Is to remain in a state of ot arrested development Inasmuch as the tho building industry Is H regaled ed by many manyas as tim the means ol ot facilitating tho the general gen gen- eral cral Industrial transition from a war var to toa toa toa a peace basH tasis It should have o the encouragement encouragement en en- of all ail Interests For ul ul- ul all Industries must suffer and prosper alike Next to placing private funds Cunda In governmental go securities it ft Is desirable that they should bo be invested In enduring wealth Ilku construction Hc for tor Slow SUm crT Ht cry Tho The main reason wh why rl h cl Ii construction construction tion Is bt held hel up Is because tho tIo public has been Instinctively educated against It it Other factors which arc aro retarding the tho reco recovery ery of ot tho the industry are arc difficulty Will Will- I cult culty 30 of or obtaining capital tho uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty of the market as regards supply and distribution of capital and labor and the problems of ot price supply and Irregular and expensive transportation of ot building material The new ne attitude of at tho the government gO toward toward- building and the tho work thus started must be bc given hen a as much favorable favorable favor or able oble publicity as all the government di directed directed directed di- di unfavorably toward construction during the thc war var A campaign to en encourage encourage en- en courage owning home and homo build ing has already alread h been en inaugurated by bythe bythe bytho the tho department of ot labor lubor under tho the di direction direction dl di- of ot Roger V. V W. W Babson and Franklin Frank Frank- lin T. T Miller |