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Show PROTEST HALTS MEN'S DEPARTURE Service Reserve Volunteers Delayed in Start for Shipbuilding Work on the Coast. A party of eighty-four volunteers in the public service reserve, who were to have started to San Francisco yesterday yes-terday afternoon for shipbuilding work for the emergency fleet corporation, were detained on receipt of a telegram from J. B. Densmore, collector general of the United States employment service. ser-vice. The message from Mr. Densmore Dens-more to P. J. Moran, state director of of the public service reserve and the United States employment service, followed fol-lowed a protest sent .from Salt Lake emploj'ers- to Secretary Wilson of the labor department, D. A. Plumly, special agent of the employment service, said last night. The protest was explained and the ban will be lifted by Mr. Densmore in a message from Washington during this morning, Mr. Plumly believes. He does not know the identity of the employers em-ployers sending the protest to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Plumly said. The protest asserted that the workmen composing the party leaving for the coast are essential es-sential to Utah 's industry. Composing the party are forty-nine machinists, six pattern makers, eight boiler makers and twenty-one ironworkers. iron-workers. Business agents of the trades represented repre-sented sent a message to Secretary Wilson protesting against the order haltiug the departure of the party, Mr. Plumly said. 'Utah's quota, from the registration registra-tion conducted by Mr. Moran last February, Feb-ruary, ij 1660 men. Naturally, this number could not engage in shipbuilding shipbuild-ing without their absence being felt," Mr. Plumly said. "With the party to go, this is 5 per cent ftf the quota. -It is patriotic service andmost necessary to winning the war. Local employers should consider this and be willing to make a sacrifice." ' |