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Show LABOR SURVEY OF UTAHGOMPLETED P. J. Moran Declares Conditions Con-ditions at Present Are Good in Salt Lake. Report of General Situation Situa-tion in Nation Received by Officials Here. Fifty-six of trio larger concerns in Salt 1 .a.ko employ 15,27 men, according; to a report re-port Just made by the Salt Lake bureau f the United States employment service to tho federal department of labor. Tiie report is baaed upon a survey completed com-pleted last week and made at the instance of th') department of labor, which, for the purpose of obtaining definite figures upon I he employment needs of the country, coun-try, has requested such reports from district dis-trict em ploy men t service centers weekly. The data, thus obtained will be utilized in i ho rial ion-wide. scheme for the placing of soldiers returning to civil life in positions posi-tions of employment. According to 1'. J. Moran. director of the local bureau of the employment service, ser-vice, thero is no immediate prospect of need fur workers in Utah, and. small chance that many soldiers can be placed in positions, unless they bo returned to the jobs they left to enter the service. Tn many instances, lie says, this will be done. I Ie Fcom mends it sy sternal in oo-opera-Mnii of all commerei:i.l agencies with state, county and city heads, looking to the opening of public work for tho advantage of the soldiers. Yesterday Mr. Moran Teccived a lengthy report from the labor department in Washington describing the general situation situa-tion in industrial centers rendering request. re-quest. -l reports as showing a fairly healths condition. "Tn many Instances,' the report says, "the demand for labor either equals or exceeds the supply." Plenty of Work. This statement succinctly intimates t ha t w hen the time- arrives for the yoi-diers yoi-diers to he cared for there wiil be plenty of work for them. It is the purpose of the government labor department to receive re-ceive by wire each week a condensed statement of industrial conditions in each commercial community, relying upon community boards and agents of the I'nlted States employment service for , these. The reports will be accepted as a! barometer in making replacements, alio- : eat ing labor, curtailment and cancella- : tion of war contracts and the demobilization demobiliza-tion of the army. The last report, 'in-' volving about GUOO employers, indicates the employment of more than ,,000,00'.) men in J0:i tenters of thirty-four states. While the department's report speaks wdl of employment conditions in the eastern, east-ern, central and middle states, with one or two exceptions, it does not speak so w oil of the extreme west, saying: "In f.os Angeles there is a seasonal shortage of work, with conditions .quite unsettled, 1 while at Oakland the situation is acute. In San "Francisco the available positions ; about balance the demand of workers, penver reports a good condition, with the i .-a me sort of reports from Washington and j Oregon. There is no demand for men I :n Utah." I The report proceeds: i "Conditions in New York state (includ- ! in- Greater New "iork) aro reported as1 good everywhere. In Buffalo there Is an ! excess of about 6000. duo probably to a tapering otf of airplane contracts, but ! t his surplus will be absorbed by other ! industries in Buffalo region. The Pierce-Arrow Pierce-Arrow factory, in particular, reports that instead of laying men off it is adding to the force. Shortages of Labor. "Pennsylvania, which has many war end-acts of groat magnitude, reports the ' 'nation good everywhere. In big industrial indus-trial centers like Philadelphia, Pittsburg Mid 1 larrisburg. there is reported a heav Mtortago In labor, with tho supolv nowhere no-where equaling the demand. South Beth-bhem Beth-bhem reports a surplus of 16S in skilled lahor, but a big shortage of common labor. la-bor. Seranton, in the heart of the anthracite anthra-cite mining region reports a shortage of "Kenorts from New England, especially Connecticut, show a healthv condition. New London, New Britain, Meriden and I'crby, Conn., show heavy shortages, whUe other centers report the supply equals the demand, with the exception of Stamford, where thero is a slight surplus. In Massachusetts there is a shortage in Boston and a slight surplus tn" Lvnn. ''her sections report the supply equals i he nemami. Maine and New Hampshire : court that the supply equals the dc-tnand, dc-tnand, with conditions generally good. "In New Jersey there is a heavv shortage short-age of labor in Trenton. Jersey Cttv and Klisaheth. In such centers an Newark, 'aterson and New Brunswick the supply about equals tho demand. Surplus in Dayton. "In Ohio the situation is generallv good T'"-re is a shortage of labor in Youngs-mwu Youngs-mwu and a slighr. surplus in Da v ton and Toledo. At Akron a v.-l increase t!i re-ciiifonu'rns re-ciiifonu'rns of :;civ,i workmen is expected u::;'i;i t!n- coming week. , '! ref joii. M.-h.. the center jf the c.-rus. cpiployii.g i;0.m0 'nic'ii. reportHie .-i;;c..i;. of labor Ju;-l equals tiio demand. cral or tin- large automobile mann-i'a mann-i'a turers say that msiead of laying off men on account, of the cancellation ot war contiac:s tney are rumiug to add to t heir forces. In Flint there" is some s'ight disturbance, due. tio doubt, to the Co"; that the KuicX machinists are out. "In tho middle-western states, including includ-ing Illinois, Indiana. Minnesota and Missouri, Mis-souri, the supply equnis the demand with the exception of South B-md, Ir.d., where there is a shortage. n Chicago 175 em-:-iovrs, emplo ing j-M.h-. ni0nI,e eiuals the demand, but a heavy in-. in-. t-a-.e in r-'quivcuients is exn.--etoi during turning w-'t';. Mimv apoli- xplcis a f"tsc. in j-cmu1 paits nf t'.v soutiiern j o:' l.i nor. B;rimi:gi'a'n. A la., renoi tb a lu.ivv shortage, while at Mobile the sup-r:y sup-r:y just ahout equals the demand. At At'auiu. Ga.. there is a heavv shortage. In florida there is a heavy shortage, wiUi shipyard conditions at Penacoia unet-t'ed. unet-t'ed. Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Wesr Virginia and Tennessee all report s'nortage. although general conditions are rroA.j. Charleston. S. C., and Dallas, '! eas, report the supply equal to the de-m de-m i rd. At Norfolk, Ya ., there 13 otoo h"-.d liN' ',ir':;i'i"C, ov. ing to a sn-ike |