Show CONVICTS CONVICT'S BROOMS i ARE SOLD IN UT UTAH Al I Prison Labor of Nearby States Adversely Affects Local Manufacturers MATTER NOT OF SENTIMENT j i i. i I V fi f V BI Out of ff In and Labor t f f f I Is I. I Injured 4 That Thal manufacturers o of the state slate ol ot of oti i Utah Ulah are ire competing In certain lines Jnes with wih convict labor of nearby stat states stales and that tho the output of or c certain factories factories fac fue- tories of or th the state Ial is being crowded out o of the thu market b by convict con lct labor Is not hot fot generally known tint tHI that this I state of affairs exit exists was wn brou brought ht out outI I v yesterday by Charles of Ogden Og Og- den who ho was vas a visitor at al the headquarters head head- quarters o of the Manufacturers Merchants Merchants' Mer Mer- chants chants' n association Mr Ir who owns ji t oom l factory factor at al Ogden was seen at al the he headquarters of the association during durIn the tho day It I Is not general generally known he said Id In in the tate state that more than one half of the brooms sold SOil solI in the markets of ot the tho state stale are the product o of the prison factories s of other othel stat states A lA large percentage o of the brooms that ar are found Cound for sale In the meal local mark markets ts are manufactured by convicts con con- In the lw penal Inal Institution nt at HawI Haw Rawl- I ins ns Wyo yo yoA yo A large larg factor factory Is IR operated h by the tho prison on management and the thu goods turned out find their wa way vay to tho the Utah markets and anel to Utah homes homeR Fully I hilt Half Made In Iii II P I Another convict factor I Is con factory operated at Lincoln N Neb Nob h. h and a n great quantity of If the brooms room used here come from Crom r I there Il It I Is estimated by hy men who are art familiar with wih the business that thai fully one half and f 11 possibly two thirds of the brooms sold In this state arc are manufactured man man- in convict con lct factories That the brooms are made b by convicts convicts con con- Is a feature that should not be bp forgotten and II it I Is not miot a 3 matter mailer of sentimentality ta Iy It I is a matter moler of the Illness of things thing The rhe people eople of the UI state should bear In mind that In usIng using us us- ing big a broom o of this kind while it I Is Isas Isas as good ool perhaps as any other broom I so fO far as us workmanship and material go to make It I good they are patronIzing patronizing patron patron- izing Ing an Institution that is antagonistic tie tic tc lo to the tIme welfare o of their own people peo peo- I 11 and their own state stat The prison mal made broom Is manufactured manu menu at a labor cost of fifty cents l la a da lay day as compared cl with wih a labor labO cost costor of or from 2 to 2 n a day for fOl the Ow 1 broom that Is Ig made In iii a competitive J j labor free factory I ft Sells a nl nt t Sn I r c The made convict con broom sells ls to lo lothe the tho retail trade at exactly tho the same samo price UK as fR the th competitive factory made I broom The factory does doc not miot got the difference In profits hut but the middlemen middlemen middle middle- men g get t It It H. The local dealers dealErs are not aware rl perhaps that the lie brooms tlc they handle are fre prison mot made hut but th the profits for them aro Ire In many many cases casesa a n greater than the tho on in J the hl Utah Ulah artIcle The natural r result 1 Is IK that the Uw made convIct o broom Is IR In Inmany 1 many C cases H pu pushed to th the front an the tho Utah article artcle In Is 11 relegated to th rear I f r The Iw customer can cnn readily rall tell the convict broom from the local loal broom 1 by hy th the label The label of 0 a Utah manufacturer I is that a guarantee only J. J free rN labor I Is employed The prison prison- made broom does dog not bear benr a label to indicate that It I is of or prison make malte The safest fest way for tor the th purchaser to determine this tills is to see that a Utah label Is on the goods goots The Tillotson has a capacity capacity capa capa- city of fourteen dozen brooms 0 11 S per ea day hut but because of or The hold holt the convict convict con con- vict lct broom room has on the market the average output is now no only four dozen dozen doz doz- en fn per day If l only mado made brooms W wore re used in the state stale every very factory factor In the state could work worl at full ful capacity capacity capa capa- el city and then all al orders could coule not b be t filled A As good goot a quality of oC broom corn can be bo grown here hero as In nn any other state but hut the growers have not yet e been heen able to devise devIe a method of curing the corn properly because of climatic reasons When hon this sterl s I Is devised cl It I will wI mean macan that there thre will wJ probably be he a n slight reduction In cost to the Iho consumer |