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Show THE CITIZEN 4 commercialcity?', Instead of breeding mosquitoes which cannot be ized, let us turn the land over to industries. Utah can supply the induscoal, iron, lead, zinc and materials and electric power for all tries, even to the production of furnishing the entire world, and there is no reason why this state should not be rank and file above any other western state in the union. If there are any reasons why such industries should not come to', this state, we ought to know what they are, because with our untold wealth laying idly at our feet, many of us are tired of waiting any longer for them to develop themselves. A start must be made. It should have been made when our coal and iron was first discovered, but now that we know we have it in untold quantities let us go to bat as the saying is. The Columbia Steel is with us and will no doubt make the first iron history of the state. It is just a beginning. The subsidiary factories which should now be encouraged to come in would give employment to thousands of laborers.- It is the big payrolls which makes a prosperous city. If all incoming factories are allowed to go to Provo the time will come when Provo will be the largest city where all the business is done and Salt Lake will be the place where only the laws are made. Competition is keen and the bashful are left in the rear. - at that time were out of work. On April 25, 1921, a little over a month after the Republican administration" came into power, but before any of its policies could possibly be put into effect, Samuel Gompers himself issued a statement in which that 2,350,000 wage earners he estimated the number of unemployed to be 5,000,000. That wa's but a few days over two years ago. Today there is states of the union, an actual shortage of workers in twenty-thre- e while1 in twenty-on- e other states unemployment has been completely' wiped out. In only four states Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and South Carolina is there any general unemployment. This survey of the present labor situation is according to statistics and reports gathered from every state and every community, from labor organizations and state and federal employment agencies. Not only is there a scarcity of labor throughout the country, but wages are' at a higher level than at any previous time in American history, with1 the possible exception in some industries of the year 1920. In many industries, however, wages are higher today than even the peak of' 1920. Such, in brief, is the transformation in the labor and industrial world that has come about in the two years that the Harding administration has been in power. The present controversy as to which shall be the main highway According to the survey made, fourteen states report serious before the aired is now California west from this city to being shortage in farm labor. They are Illinois, Iowa,' North Dakota, in the Some erred one far. have that nation. It should never gone Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Virginia, South Caro- it makes blunder the only beginning and to endeavor to cover up lina, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. final for decision, worse. The matter has been taken to Washington The following states show a scarcity of skilled workers (both and after this decision is rendered, then all parties will not be satismale and female), there being more jobs than there are people to fied because some will be injured. fill them: New York, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Which shall it be? The Lincoln highway or the Victory highMaryland, Montana and Mississippi. and the feasible is most is the road Citizen for the that The way. In the following states the building trades are paying fabulous least expensive for construction and upkeep and the' best suited for and yet are unable to secure enough help to carry on contravel. If these questions had been considered at first, a great deal wages struction under contract : New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Louisof time, money and labor would have been saved this state. Now iana, Ohio, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Misthat we are in the mud the only thing to do is to get out the best souri, Tennessee, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, California. way we can, but it must be done in an honorable way. The following states report no unemployment, the majority of The Wendover road parallels the Western Pacific tracks and industries being normal and in some industries there being a scarlies between the tracks and the lake. Part of this road is to be of help; Maryland, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Massabuilt over the mild flats which at high water during the year is city Rhode Island, Kansas, Wisconsin, South Dakota, covered with water for a distance of about forty miles and twenty chusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas,. inches deep. If this road is completed it will be a break water for Michigan, Texas, North Carolina, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nevada. the railroad going through this section. A man from Tooele who Notwithstanding farmers are offering wages higher-thaany. worked on the road said that after they got through and had reached previous time in the history of American agriculture, with the exWendver, they could not go back over the road just made but had of the war period, they are unable to secure necessary help. to ship from Wendover to Tooele by rail, all their equipment, teams ception This is also true farther west of ranch hands, and in the northwest and wagons, etc. This Tooele man stated that he thought the of lumber men. road was a joke and one that could never be made a success except Common labor is at a premium in many states, being paid 70 by a great expense and then it would have to be ballasted every year on account of water erosion. However, it would be a source of to 80 cents an hour. A report just issued by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revenue to the railroad for hauling material for upkeep. different industries and 5.453 different plants Our public officials who have this road in charge should be covering fifty-thre- e careful in hanging a debt on the state which cannot be wiped out or shows that in the month of March, 39 of those industries increased the number of employes and 41 of the 43 increased the total paywhich will be out of all proportion as to actual cost and upkeep. The Lincoln highway goes through the lower end of this same rolls. As compared with a year ago, the increase in number of em- mud flat, where the expense of construction is enormous and where ployes and amount of payrolls is stupendous; The iron and steel industry, as compared with a year ago, already a fortune has been sunk in the mud. A road by way of Ogden and around the north end of the Great shows an increase of 34 per cent in the number of employes and1 Salt Lake would have dodged this big mud flat, and to those who 86 per cent in wages paid. look at the map would make the best road west. However, Ogden The automobile industry shows an increase of 53 per cent in' and Salt Lake pulled in opposite directions, and when the first roads the number of employes and 84.5 per cent in the amount of wages were laid out it seemed to be impossible to get all factions together paid. and united on any one definite course to pursue. The boot and shoe industry shows an increase of 5 per cent in the number of employes and over 12 per cent in amount of LABOR. wages paid. Car building and repairing shows an increase of 43 per cent in On .December 28, 1920, the U. E--. employment service of the the number of employes and 51 per cent in amount of wages, paid. Cotton manufacturing industry shows an increase of 46 per department of labor, then under Democratic administration, estimated that 2,000,000 workers ordinarily employed were idle. On cent in the number of employes and 65 per cent in amount of wages January 6, 1921, the Plumb Plan League, composed of A. F. of L. paid. unions and railroad brotherhoods, gave out a statement to the effect The leather industry shows an increase of 13 per cent in the 4 , . n . . .' q . q |