Show 1 Utah Utah's Industrial Pay Roll May Top lop 1942 Record Possibility that Utah's 1943 industrial pay roll may ex- ex peed eed last years year's time all-time record rec rec- ord and of was seen Monday in a summary for the fir first t half of 1943 appearing in the Utah Employment Digest This was forecast as Utah's individual pay roll from January January January Janu Janu- ary 1 to June 30 1943 19 exceeded exceeded ex ex- a figure more than the total total to to- tal in any prewar year This first half total with a third quarter pay roll is expected to add another exceeding r record e c cor o r d breaking total A A. tendency is shown for Utah's pay roll curve to level leveloff leveloff leveloff off at an unusually high level with indications being eing that such leveling will leave the pay roll in the I bracket during the the I fourth quarter of 1943 the digest reported The pay roll wa was stabilized in the bracket by quarters in pr prewar war years The state pay roll curve dropped from froll approximately to during during during dur dur- ing the first quarter of 1943 which figure remained constant constant constant con con- stant during the second ter S Numb Number r of In Utah industry has al also o shown a tendency to level off the report showed During the first quarter of 1942 there were workers with the number increasing to in November This total dropped to in January and between February and June The average for 1942 was as compared compared com corn pared with about for the first half of 1943 The construction industry showed the thc greatest drop in number of workers declining from in the last quarter of 1942 to in the second quarter of 1943 A high peak was reached by manufacturing ing concerns in June of this year while trade has been holding about even at the report indicated Possibility of d distress 1st res s samong among several million men and government war workers because of unemployment in the postwar period was also noted in the digest Practically Practically cally none of the government war workers rs and only a percentage percentage percentage per per- of returning service servicemen servicemen men will be entitled to re receive receive receive re- re unemployment t com compensation pens pen pen- s tion because neither federal nor l law w provides for Unemployment unemployment unemployment un un- employment insurance for perSons persons persons per per- sons employed by the government government government govern govern- ment the digest explained |