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Show ERA OF PROSPERITY " AHEAD. EXPERT SAYS Earl Constantine Tells Salt ; Lake Business Men of ! Industrial Problems. "A:.;e."i uri-'o-bt'.-dly fn--? the pr.'-ot-le-t i":.-:i;d of r rosi .-ro'-i.-i b"js:r:-ss and in-j in-j a'-sti'';! a-'ti'. :f.y in Its history." Karl t'on-sutritmc, t'on-sutritmc, r.aU".".al fie! 1 a-jreiary for th.e iiiiiio'ia ceunci; for industrial c-jiL-nso, de-:a:ed de-:a:ed yeslerday noon to local manufac-, manufac-, tuiers and busin. ss r.:.-n at a lunclieoti ! I.--M at the liop-i Ui.::. iff sa!..l the j gf'uat war ch-inands nad pr.n -t ioahy depleted de-pleted t.,e indusinal sto' k.- of Ihs coun-lr, coun-lr, and r:iat the foreign demand 'or goods w o;i!d s rnp toe rouuiry. If.- ce la:a;d toe co-nnry lai-cd a period of readjustment, readjust-ment, latner ro;iu a day of re mstr action, ac-tion, and point. -J out that th-j givaT de-fian.:s de-fian.:s for goods, tin: building program ami the "empty slu-ives" u wv c-ausinii a I jioortage of men in tiie labor market. lit disousMn t'.p: -.'."rid war, Air. i'oii-stahtine i'oii-stahtine point. -d oMt tiiat out of ti.e S'JM,-iiijo.rHii'i.HMj S'JM,-iiijo.rHii'i.HMj spent. Anu-ri'-H had given i.nn)iii'y,0"O, a little more than 11 per cent of the otai co.-t. out of OlU'OO.aun inohil-ized inohil-ized for war purposes, America had sent into the great ana only I , '.'). u'ju, not i. iore thwn T:a p--r cut of t:.e total. Other figuies he cited Mimvil that America was not reai'.y in need of reconstruction, but m;rei- going through an age of readjustment. re-adjustment. Air. i.'onstantine said America, was facing fac-ing many serious labor problems. He discussed dis-cussed the Huruet t bill before cungi ess. aiming to stop jmmigrai'on for a per:-;".! o: five years. He declared this would cause a labor shortage, as more than two and one-half million men were hindered from coining to this country during the war, and that many were, now returned to foreign ports. May alone witnessed the exodus of Ko.OU'j jrom New York alone. In spi te of this fact, lie declared, the American federation of Labor had insisted in-sisted thai, there was an oversupply of labor and had asked for a working week of forty-four hours instead of forty-eight in order Lo give opport unities for more men to work. Mr. i 'onstantine branded such a recpipst as ridiculous, in view of the impending shortage of labor pending. To offset this labor shortage. Air. Constantine Con-stantine offered a solution to the problem. prob-lem. He said this condition could be offset off-set by incrPTsed invention and the following fol-lowing out of more practical steps to make labor more effective with larger production produc-tion as a result. He- showed that the problems weer beyond the control of any one organization, and urged careful cooperation co-operation with all bodies for the solution of the joint industrial questions. Mr. Constantine will leave for San Francisco Fran-cisco this afternoon to speak to business busi-ness men and industrialists of the Golden Gate metropolis. He will make a careful survey of industrial conditions in the west for the purpose of reporting his finding to eastern business men. More than seventy-five attended the luncheon. |