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Show ABUSE OF LABORERS Labor Commissioner Suggests Sug-gests Remedy in His An-- An-- nual Report. MEN ARE IN DEMAND Wages Are Advanced by Mines and Mills at the Camps of Utah. A review of laboring conditions in I'tah the past two years, showing the advance In wages and the fact that the demand exceeded the supply in many Instances In-stances and at many times, together with recommendations for changes in the labor laws, is the feature of the biennial report of H. T. Haines, state commissioner of the bureau of immigration, labor and statistics. sta-tistics. Mr. Haines also goes on record as again favoring the establishment of free employment agencies for local needs and in order to exchange labor with other states when there is a special demand for large constructive projects. Mr. Haines, in part, says in his report now being prepared pre-pared for submission to Governor Simon Bamberger: I again recommend that the legislature legisla-ture provide for two free public employment em-ployment offices under state control, one to be located in Salt lake City and the other in Ogden. Kindly consideration should he given by the state to those who are so unfortunately situated that they must seek employment through private pri-vate employment agencies, and are obliged to pay fees ofttimes far in excess ex-cess of the value of the services actually ac-tually rendered. Sometimes a Job is obtained only for a few days and the applicant must return time and again and pay on agency's fee for information leading to the obtalnment of other jobs. Misrepresentation Practiced. Where employment is obtained with railroad, construction, mining and like concerns, the applicant is also obliged to pay a monthly hospital fee or surgeon's fee and possibly also other small fees, all of which are deducted de-ducted from the first pay check given the employee, no matter how lean the check may be. During the course of the year a large percentage of the wages of persons thus seeking employment em-ployment Is eaten up in this manner. As a general thing we have found the proprietors of private employment agencies well within the law, and quite willing to sacrifice any fee obtained ob-tained by them from applicants who were sent to jobs were conditions were intolerable and other than had been reported to exist by applicants for employment. There have been and are many abuses practiced upon those who secure se-cure employment through private employment em-ployment agencies, the responsibility for which, however, docs not rest with the employment office managers. The public employment office act should provide means for properly dealing with persons who misrepresent misrepre-sent conditions relating to the employment em-ployment they offer and the amount of wages to be paid. Our prerent private pri-vate employment laws should be amended to provide easy recourse against, those who, in seeking to procure pro-cure help, willfully misrepresent the character and conditions surrounding employment which they offer and the ' wages to be paid. ; Seeks State Co-operation. j j A large number of states, and cities as well, now maintain free public em-i em-i ployment offices, which appear to be meeting with great success. Besides ! serving a local need they assist in the distribution of labor over a wide held. For instance, if any of our neighboring neighbor-ing state having free state and mu nicipal employment offices are in need of laborers in any enterprise of an extraordinary character, such as railroad, rail-road, canal and other construction work, harvesting, etc.. and are short in help, and I'tah should have a surplus sur-plus of such labor, by communicating with the state-controlled free employment employ-ment bureau hero we would be able to furnish employment to perhaps a small army of men needing jobs, and vice versa when our enterprises needed need-ed men. , The general labor situation has been most satisfactory during the past biennium, so far as employment was concerned. During the latter half the demand for building trnden-men trnden-men was grea ter than the supply, and the employment offices have nover at any time been able to supply sup-ply the demand for common labor and for farm help during the harvesting harvest-ing season, especially the latter part of (be summer nnd earlv fall. Wncs for some kinds of construction work advanced from ??, to 75 cents a day, and some railroads increased w;ii:ph nf section hands from Sl.fiS to S1.S5 and better a day. Men in Great Demand. Mine and mill men wei c in great demand, and during the bionnlnm w:iges advanced o cents and more per day for hot h in t he Park Ci ' y ;ind Tintic districts, and 25 cents and I better in Hinyh;im nnd at tho Utah ! Copper company's mills at Magna. Over 1 n.Ocn inr-n pa i ticifat ed in 1 jies advances of i hr labm wag. Smelter- j men also :d:arei.l in the increase of wages from 2a 1o !" cents per d;iy. base.i on the prices of metals at arl-oiis arl-oiis periods during the biennhun. The mmiufact uring industries of this stnt.e imv now assuming surh importance im-portance and providing labor- for fo laine a pi. rccmlacc of its worker? that . the lime i-'e.-m- n-aiiy ripo for the ri-ai tment of la ws f -r the ins pet Urn rinil reguia : ion of sm -p ej M y, inc. 't torirv, workshops an 1 otNr estab- 1 li.h'T'cn's where. n many laborers are ernployi d and n.acninery used, Pr the purpose, of proif"'ti:ig the rm-plo' rm-plo' ees and oi he rs against damages ; arising from imperfect nr da i i::ei ms '. inn cb inc ry, now i u i L'na 1 . ' 1 ' simple ' safetv devi '?. and provi'br.g for sof-f'"-joi!L pre esi apes, eleva t or reuiri . tion and" .--anitai v con'.;! ifiii- for i h sa:Y-tv and health of employes ;iik1 other.. ( |