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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, DECEMBER 23. 1938 LOW-COS-T HOUSING PROJECTS nt (Continued from page 2) automobile industry, the cement and rubber industries, and countless other contributions to our national prosperity have been without good roads ? Likewise, in a public housing program, many different kinds of .private enterprise participate directly or indirectly. The various types of individual initiative should be examined one by one, in order to consider exactly what their particular stake may be and what they stand to gain or lose by a large scale public housing program. One thing which becomes evident immediately from such a survey is that only a very small part of the entire public housing program is actually pubic enterprise. Manufacturers are outstanding representatives of the business community. The participation of productive industry in the housing program is simple, direct, and entirely on the profit side of the ledger. Of the $889,000,000 which constitute the immediate public housing program ($800,000,000 in USHA loans plus a minimum of $89,000,000 raised by the local authorities), about $338,000,000 will be spent directly for materials and equipment. This means large in- - Seasons Greetings UTAH U- ENGRAVING COMPANY - jyf itf Color Plates - Zinc Etchings - Half Tones Utahs Leading Engravers jf 113 Regent St. Was. 5184 Jj Meiry Christmas Gordon Kenning Agency GENERAL AGENTS Insurance of All Kinds Bonds 204 Beason Building Phone:: Was. 9313 . Res.: Hy. dividual purchases of standard first grade goods, with no risks about the payment of bills. And these orders wil displace no other orders, since the low-reprogram will service families who would otherwise be entirely outside the market for new homes. Wages and Materials The contractor derives an even clearer benefit from the housing program. About $689,000,000' will be spent for construction alone In the first few years. This sum will be paid directly to private contractors, who will in turn use it for wages, materials, equipment, and their own profit and overhead. The builder of homes for sale or rent is the man most often thought 5f whert private enterprise is mentioned in connection with the housing business. Will he be hurt by public housing? As long as the new dwellings are rented at levels far below anything he can reach, and as long as the tenants are drawn solely from income groups who cannot aspire to new homes housprivately built, the low-reing and slum clearance program offers no competition of any kind to the private .builder. . . . "Far from being injured, the private builder is substantially helped by a public housing program. Last summer a partial survey was made by the Public Works Administration of the new building going on in the neighborhood of the PWA housing projects then under construction. It was reported that a total of $3,000,00(1 worth of private real estate improvements in the vicinity of the projects has been traced directly to the reviving effect of the housing developments on their surroundings although in many instances the Federal improvements are not yet completed or occupied. One small project wa3 built in an obsolescent neighborhood where the total value of improvements constructed in recent years would probably not amount to $1000. Immediately after the project was started, the neighborhood was benefited by the construction of 4 filling stations, nine store fronts, 15 stores, 73 houses, and one swimming pool. In addition, eight stores and 15 houses have been remodeled. This case was typical of many. . . . 5965-- W R. F. Twelves C. T. Stoker Dentists - Brooks Arcade Bldg. Wasatch 7782 jf nt Better Homes Another thing which public housing can do for the private builder is to raise the standard of demand. There are today thousands of middle income families living in homes which, although decent by contrast with the slums, tre inconvenient, inadequate, and out of date. As families living in the slums are gradually moved into modem dwellings these other families will look to private builders to build evn better homes for them. tftl In reviewing the unusual success achieved in driving down cony struction costs the pamphlet points out typical examples of low costs as follows: In New York the net construe tion cost per home will be about and in Buffalo, about $3350; These are both cities where $3500. costs are usually relativebuilding ly high. In Austin, Texas, the average net cost of constructing families will homes for be only about $220jhper puit. Why are the costs so low? For one thing, the agreements with the building trades unions remove low-inco- many of the uncertainties and pos- sible delays In big housing Jobs and have most assuredly played a part in the reasonable bids submitted. Also, these new projects will be built under normal, local building conditions, from local rather than Federal specifications. This is only one of the many ways in which the policy of decentralization is working out with great suc- cess. Terms of Economy And finally, a technique of g, Jane Apartments Publix Realty Cprp. 726 So. 9th E. rt' Little Bobby came in the house at noon looking very distressed in front of his mother. he said, is it true Mummy, that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? my dear, replied his mother. Why? Well, Ive kept 10 doctors away this morning, but Im afraid one will have to come this afternoon! Yes, Ily. 7899 (Continued from Page 1) professionals. Orchestral and vocal numbers will be provided by the migrants themselves. Music, songs and dances that have been part of the lives of these people and their forebears for generations will be combined in the program. Underlying Purpose The underlying purpose of all groups interested is to present to the nation the current authentic whose problems picture of a people with one of living are inter-twine- d national of Americas gravest rural poverty. The miproblems in general, it workers farm grant is pointed out, are dispossessed farm families who have been attached to the soil as owners or tenants in this and preceding generations since the earliest days of American settlement; and the crea tion of a growing class of migrat ing, unattached families following the crops for a livelihood, with only the most precarious hold upon social advantages and economic security, is held to be a matter of grave public concern. As Melvyn Douglas puts it: We realize that Christmas is a season of gaiety, and these new of pioneers, who are descendants are the older American pioneers, not going to throw a down-in-thmouth party. Theyre men and women of fighting blood and by adtheyve not been whipped, to recognize versity. Were going their personal dignity and their rightful status as workers and Americans by a program that fits into the general spint of America s Christmas, with a festive rather than a somber motif. But we are also going to seriously present the d of this nathoughts that and tion is and that the migrant farm workers typify the rural lj. $7. Labor When You Think Ttl of Plumbing Think of ; Jj. $K&K & Jjf (j: Plumbing Denting Co. & ny. 2036 So. 11 E. 1096-- 7 3 SEASONS GREETINGS FROM H. C. MORTENSEN, MANAGER DESERET GYMNASIUM CALL WASATCH 1424 Salt Lakes Only Complete Recreational Center SEASONS GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS OF LABOR LIME RICKEY y SEASONS GREETINGS Lumber Co. Robinson-Romne- y WHOLESALE LUMBER Wasatch 1830 Dooly Building SEASONS GREETINGS WINTER SPORTS HEADQUARTERS l Everything for the Outdoor Man or Woman The Road to all Salt Lake Winter Resorts Passes Our Door .Tj 1080 . l A East W . GOASOTE rJAElT Twenty-firsw. et.l w t t. Hyland 210 South, Sugarhouse A W . . 14 A 14 . 4 W .l W Merry Christmas GE. 51 Happy New Year , 1939 N & (GH&AY CONTRACTORS West 3rd South , Phone Was. 4383 : one-thir- ed ill-fe- d, one-thir- d. Frank J. Kunick Great Lake Timber Co. Upholstering and Furni-tur- e Made to Order AH Work Guaranteed Extending . Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and ' Happy New Year To the workers of Utah . East.' Hy. 5787 J Jh I, V KikJrfi er 1988 S. 11 fl : Merry Christmas Happy New Year J sj Manufacturers of the Famous Treating Plant and Stock Located on Highway Between Park City and Heber PARK CITY, UTAH SOS Bigelow Beverly Dixie Anna - Dixie ACE HIGH LITHIATED LEMON, GINGER ALE, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR or an PARTY Creosote Treated Lodgepole Pine Poles, Railroad Ties and Mining Timber Salt Lake City South Main Merry Christmas Peter Pan - Parkway-Broad-mo- YELLOWSTONE BEVERAGE CO. Great Lake Timber Co. 246 Non-Partis- A MAMMOTH CHRISTMAS Supporting Organizations Committees in both southern and northern California are actively at work obtaining funds, toys, clothing and other material on a scale sufficiently large to provide gifts for every guest. The Shafter party is expected to attract attendance from all of Kern county and some adjoining areas, and estimates of the crowd run into the . thousands. Groups sponsoring and supporting the program include: National Youth Administration, New York Save The Children Fund, American Newspaper Guild, Womens Com Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Our Labor Friends For Recreation Its lcace and One-Thir- de- signing community housing projects is now really being developed in the United States. For years there has been talk about the economies of large-scal- e operations, the importance of neighborhood and the value of escertain simple' minimum tablishing standards of design and equipment in terms of real economy rather gadget salesmanship. Valuable experiments have been made, many of them by the Federal Government. But it is only now that the architects and technicians of the USIIA and the local authorities are transforming this experience into a sound, scientific practice. This is still only the beginning, Even greater improvehowever. ments and economies may be expected in the future. Costs are low, but they must be driven still lower. site-plannin- mittee of the American League for Democracy, The League of Women Shoppers, The John Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization, Farm Security Administration, California Federation for Political Unity, Labors League, United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America, and the Simon J. Lubin Society. Headquarters of the Christmas d for of the Nation Committee are at 4950 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood. Page 3 and their families Cominon George Abbott Commissioner W. D. Hammond, Chairman Preston G. Peterson, Commissioner |