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Show SURPLUS OF LABOR .- PRESENTS PROBLEM Influx of Unemployed Men Giving Concern to Bureau Bu-reau Officials. i i "What to do with the surplus of labor- I crs now .drifting into Salt Lake is a ) cmcstion I'. J. Aloran, director of cm- J ploy ment in Utah, and his working forces at the U. S. employment service bureau are concerned over. Air. Moran says the demand for work at laboring occupations just now is greater than w lie 1 1 reoruititiK for munitions plants in tho east and south was at its best. The influx of laborers is due, according accord-ing to Air. Alomn. to the closing down of railroad, h it; hway and ,renera 1 con -strnetion camps ihroujrhuul the state on account of cold a eat her. He says that at least Sun men have drifted into the employment headrpiarters in the past two days seeking em ploy ment. "I haven't the faint est notion what to j do with these men. for there is scarcely a job of any kind In sight at present." Mr. .Moran says. "As a general rule the applicants for "work have saved something from their summer's earnings, earn-ings, and will be able to live some weeks even without steady employment, but when their bit of money is gone they will be facing a tough proposition, for returning soldiers will Vie given first call on jobs that open up as the winter proceeds1." pro-ceeds1." Air. Moi a n entertains hope that, with the lifting of the embargo on building ma t eria !s to eon t factors and pros pee t ive builders, work will start early on prep-aral prep-aral ions for erec (ion of the many struc-tu struc-tu res which have been held in abeyance the past two years. Mr. Moran says yah .Lake "ill ho a general center to which pract ieaity all unemployed men of the state will gravitate during the winter, win-ter, and he expects many will experience com id cranio hardship before spring" work is at hand. |