Show WHY SOME SOl ROAD I JOBS EMPLOY MORE LABORERS Two Tso highways ays under construction construction tion may have hate working directly at the tho site of the work w v ork very ver d dif dif- different dif different ferent numbers o of men x set Sect ct the Job that sho shows shoes s the smaller amount of direct employment v which m in inmost inmost most cases canes is a high type of road may be furnishing more work to I labor indirectly than the other Job JobI For example a road on which I the surfacing is of l local l materIal w ith a relatively large amount of I earth gradin will sell usually have more men working at the site of the road building operation than a road on which the surfacing is of materials prepared in m factories quarries or cement mIll mills at other poInts But the total of employ employment employment employment ment of labor for each of the two roads may be practically the same s This evident fact was as emphasized ed in the re results of a study mode made by the United States Bureau of PublIc Roads to determine the amount of money that went to la In labor labor bor employed d on highways It was vas determIned that for a concrete road about 80 or 90 per cent of the moneys money money ultimately is 19 paid nud out as alanes and wages ages but only about one seventh or approximate Iv 15 per cent is 18 paid to those em- em employed em employed plo ed on the site Elite of the pavement cori Further analysis showed hoed ho ed that I for a concrete road about bout one third I IS paid to producers of materials mother nother third is paid to railroads and other transportation agencies for the collection and d Iv of these materials and a t part of the remaining cost goes to producers of equipment Labor in m turn IS employed in the production of ma in m transportation andin and m in inthe inthe the manufacture of equipment |