Show a Reconstruction y Under Way ay I Ig g is accumulating sh showing that the leaven of reconstruction constantly y work ork in one direction or another and andor i ui ii nore or less effect upon the situa- situa ti lion llon n as IS a whole with the result that there Is a slow but persistent trend of f financial j Industrial and general business busine s affairs in indirection inthe th the direction of the previous norm normal 1 The The latest evidence of this description Comprises reports from many industrial cen- cen the he country that the peak of the Q seems to have been passed 1 r. r t cc to these r ports reports employers as have plenty of men and applicants or or Di positions are more numerous than at any previous time since the war boom sorted It It is stated that Vestern Western farmers who through the spring months expressed fears of a labor famine at harvest time have an and have adequate supply of labor even turned away some applicants The later lateri i S applicants are arc those who have journeyed out of the East as a result of stories of high d wages during the harvest se season son and this s naturally has resulted in a shortage of farm 1 labor in some sections of the East This f demand however is being filled to some someS S extent by the material reduction In the forces of several Eastern shipbuilding yards g S The situation at one big concern rs ls in in- in 8 of the general condition In respect g to labor affecting industries generally The C F Baldwin Locomotive works reports that d t there ere Is no difficulty in securing all th the men meni i needed while the men show a much imi improved unproved im- im i proved attitude As recently as six months al 4 ago It Is stated that the attendance average j of workmen was about 85 per pcr cent this now has been brought to 94 per cent which compares favorably with th the best records bf prewar times while the turnover at pr pres pres- ent nt Is only 5 3 per cent which is regarded 2 as a a. most unusual showing It Is considered by numerous numerous Interests that they have felt the effects of the work of ot reconstruction The operation not only Is natural but absolutely necessary ry if the i affairs generally of the country are to resume resume re re- re sume a normal and safe foundation and the fact that labor seemingly has passed its peak should not be received as a surprise or as unnatural movement i |