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Show OPPOSITION TO THE EIGHT-HOURBILL EIGHT-HOURBILL Ab a preliminary campaign toward increascing the membership in Ogden of the Manufacturers' Association of Utah, a number of the manufacturers of Ogden met with B Y Mendenhal1. chairman of the association, and D F Collett. secretary at a luncheon In, the Weber club this afternoon. Mr Collett stated several reasons why the association should have a i larger membership and pointed out 1 the beneficial effects secured by becoming be-coming a member Those who attended at-tended the luncheon were enrhusias-tic enrhusias-tic and agreed to take active measures meas-ures at once to increase the mem - i bershlp. The members of the association In Salt Lake have been divided into two 'earns, the "Red Sox" and "Giants The members outside Salt Lake City i compose a thud team All will com-pete com-pete for the record of securing the most members, the winner to be presented pre-sented wi-h a silver cup. 'In the association on .January 20, ' there were 100 members. said Mr Collett today, 'hut those 100 members represented $50 OOO.O.in of invested, capital in Utah manufacturers. On January we began a campaign to increase in-crease our membership to 250 and at the present time the indications point that our hopes will be fulfilled. 'There are 600 manufacturing establishments es-tablishments in the state and, up until un-til .Tanuars 20 we had a representation representa-tion of only one-sixth Tho work done by the organization has bene- fited all manufacturers of the s'ate, , whether they be members or not. but if our membership Increases much more effective work can be done. 1 Since the campaign for members has been started we have secured forty-two forty-two new members, two of whom are from Oeden ' At the nrent time the dues Just j about pays the running expenses of the organization, but. with an Increase In-crease to 250 members there would i be a surplus with which to put many of our advertising schemes into operation op-eration " Mr. Collett declared 'nt the association asso-ciation was fighting the bill recently recent-ly introduced in the legislature to limit the factory- working dav to eight ho'irs s reasons against the pass-aao pass-aao of that law Mr. Collett gave the followinc Opposes Fight-Hour Law. 1 Utah factories are now struggling strug-gling to compete with 'he lon hour and cheap labor of well established manufacturing centers. 3 Adverse freight rates add to the Utah manufacturers' difficulties in met ting the outside competition 3. An average of 75 per cent of the products of Utah factories must find a market outside the state, where they are compelled to meet the long hour and cheap labor goods before-mentioned before-mentioned 4. Owing to our limited population. Utah factories are all but Idle ruri'iq certain portions of the year When the buav season comes It is cry difficult dif-ficult to obtain the necessary laborers. labor-ers. In many cases i' is impossible impossi-ble to secure on shift to say nothing of two or three shifts necessary to keep the machinery going day and night. 5. Less than 1 per rcnt of Utah's population Is engaged in manufacturing manufactur-ing In New Jersey, for Instance lt per cent are thus employed Such a condition makes it obvious that Utah factories need to be helped, rather than to be hampered 6 Utah's greatest need iR more factories and mills. The welfare of our present population demands more adequate means of furnlshlug employment employ-ment and a greater population by immigration im-migration can only be secured by the Inducement that we can hold out alopg these lines 7 Manufacturing i Utah's greatest. Industry, leading Its nearest competitor competi-tor in the ratio of nearly 2 to 1 No other Industry give a greater prom ise for growth and development It, would be suicidal to palsy the hand that feeds. 8. In the year 1512 the output of Utah factories was $75,000,000 Employment Em-ployment was given to 15,0.i0 people. The factory pay rolls amounted to $11,500,000. More than $22,000,000 was paid out to Utah people for the raw materials to keep local factories running. run-ning. fj w ill the legislature "kill the goose that lays the golden egg b adding to the burden of the Utah manufacturer1 Boosting Brings Results. In explaining that the association is at all time boosting the purchasing and consumption of home products he explained the latest method of urging the patronage of home industry. One hundred thousand cards and envelopes have been printed and will be given to the manufacturers who are members of the association The envelopes are io be vised for pay containers con-tainers and bear the statement "You have earned this money in a Utah factory When you spend it, do not fjrget I tab products" Within the envelope are several small cards which are to be used by j the receiver of the envelope whel he purchases goods from the market or paya his butcher or grocer. The cards state that the money has been earned in a Utah factorv and it ould be to the benefit of the merchant to patronize the home factories. |