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Show ' What a Working Man Says. Salt Lake City, March "4,71. Editors Herald: The question of the day being scantiness scan-tiness of work for mechanics and laborers, la-borers, and the howl of the bummers thrown in with the cry of the working work-ing man, I thought I-woukl ask space for a view from another side of the question than was presented at the meeting on Monday night. Times, this Winter, have been very dull; business men, with an appearance appear-ance of doing something, have been driven to the extremes of running without any pro fits, borrowing money, or many of them becoming bankrupts: bank-rupts: and they have consequently sufiered, in commun with the work-in work-in c man. There is ene fact, patent to all observers, ob-servers, whatever may have been the hard experience of working men here this winter, but few of them have been compelled to beg for bread, as artizans and mechanics have been obliged to do in other cities; and another an-other fact is also patent, that many of the Ivitd men on Monday night can find money every day to frequent saloons, and keep J'rcjitcnliiu until they go home far from sober, which demonstrates that if they do not earn much now, they must have earned considerable while they were at work. As one individual, I will state that 1 have paid somo of thoso masons present on Monday night, $8 and $10 per day, and they did not blush to ask it; I have paid painters and carpenters 3 and $6 per day, and they thought they wero making very low wages. One of them, a plasterer, last Fall asked over $11 per day, aud his days were not very long either. It is a fact, also, that one of the men who took a ' prominent part in Monday's meeting, "earned" $25 on a recent Sunday. In reference to your statement '. made about the Tribune, I am relia-' relia-' bly informed that the managers are j. ayiiuf the lowest ica-jcs of any employing employ-ing printers in this 'city. I read the article in tho Herald, which some of the enemies of the interests inter-ests ofU tah aic blowing so much about, and, taken in a general senso, it , can be justified by facts. I do not justify an undue sensation lo import mechanics, and I do not think tho exaggerated statements I made on Monday night can bo justified justi-fied either. Least ot all, would many ' of thoso men present at that meeting pander to tho unprincipled propcusi-" propcusi-" tics of the Tribune men, if they knew as much of their cheap labor action.1 in Kansas and Utah, as I do. Kespectfully, A Wouklng Man. |