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Show FIFTY THOUSAND MEN TN MICHIGAN AUTO FACTORIES "The total capitalization of Michigan's forty-five automobile factories Is noarlv fifty million dollars and those factories glv employment lo about 50.000 men. In addition lo some 20.000 emplovod In the manufacture of automobile parts and accessories." ac-cessories." said Gi-noral Manuger F. u Holmes of tln .lao.k.son Automobllo company com-pany of Jackson. Mich. "It Is dirrii'iilt (o realize the crcnl benefit bene-fit this industry lias already brought and will routinuc to bring lo tho slate of Michigan. It has become necessary to build now nnd larger hotels In Detroit and other cities which oven now are Inadequate In-adequate to caro for tho thousands of visitors, and what helps the hotels helps nil mcroantilo establishments of whatever what-ever nature. "In thf matter of workmen's wace. M Is a well-known fact that tho ordinary laborer need no longer .slarvc on mjHr-ably mjHr-ably small wages, but if ho hns any ability abil-ity at all he ran cam much more than formerly, and no one need remain uiiem ployed, as iho demand for competent workmen already exceed the supply. "Homes of nil descriptions arc In grcnt demand and residence properly, which has long remained vacant, is now finding a ready market. Tn fact. It has already been -predicted that within a few ye Detroit'.: population will have reached Mk million mark and this city become thr greatest commercial center of the middli west." |