| Show HOME WORK AND WORKMEN the NEWS to ie informed of the following actual incident which occurred to ID front of the county court house last monday the day of the school bond election A couple coupie of aged aided and unemployed laboring labo men struck up acquaintance and were soon in ear ht debt vi conversation ou on the subject ot of the prevailing hard times low wages and scarcity ot work the show to get anything to do in this tufu asked 0 one n e that all de penuel said the other are you an old resident aident re here or a newcomer an entire stranger im sorry to fay eay replied the firel 1 I giuly came into the territory yesterday beat my way P on the railroad from colorado and I 1 a place to go to or a friend in the whole country youre all right theol then li l I rejoined his oom panion being a stranger have no trouble im an alu resident have been here many 3 ears eare have a little home and a family but no income I 1 cant get work as aa a laborer and I 1 have no trade but as a newcomer you can get worl work in one or the other of the city departments if they have bave to lay iby off an old hand to give it to you the way they fulfill their election promises prom ieee the way they keep their forces up for the next election that comes along about the same time that this in aident was brought to our attention complaint reached the NEWS that workmen bad be been 4 n imported to work on en the school buildings the report seemed to be well authenticated in fact it was as much as admitted in some quarters t being urged that the 4 men imported will be made citizens of as soon as the law will permit such pleaders plea ders altogether ignored the fact that the necessities of the case make it mandatory that those we already have be taken care of and their in ability to fill all requirements demon before sending elsewhere tot for bep but we did not then believe nor do we now that any intention of import jug ing workmen exists in the minds of the school board or those who will have the expending of the money derived from the bonab we were in favor of the bonds and said so but certainly would not have been if the work resulting from the given was not to go to salt lake or at least utah workmen so long as they are capa capable ble of doing it As to the other coni complaint plaint that strangers and hobos hobba can get city employment in preference boand to toab the t exclusion of local residents resident we suspect that it is too well founded if true it is lamentable in the first placa there is no inore work on hand band than can be done by the force alrea already dy employed and until new avenues of employment are opened we need no DO increase iu orease of laboring population ID the second place we can furnish in the territory ail the labor skilled and unskilled that is needed heie for all present wes or immediately prospective purposes it goes without saying theo lore fore that this paper will consent to no such sot act of double injustice as iu in dicing others to come just now would be and it will now nod and always put furth forth its best efforts to emph emphasize asli a and insist on the fulfillment of the wise and patriotic doctrine doo doc crine that to home workmen shall be given the home work |
