Show Dam Projects Could Create A Million Milion Jobs Material lakers l Makers as Well As Actual Construction Workers Would Benefit Jobs for thousands of skilled and unskilled workmen will be created in every part of the country when congress approves approve plans and provides pro pro- provides provides vides funds for building more than irrigation and power projects proposed by the bureau of rec rec- reclamation reclamation reclamation in its postwar post post- postwar postwar war inventory Although these proposed irrigation and power projects will be located in the 17 western states where the bureau of reclamation since 1902 has been responsible for the conserva conserva- conservation conservation conservation tion and wise use of water re re- resources resources re- re resources sources their construction will cre cre- create create create ate job opportunities from Maine to California Behind every man on the construction con con- construction construction job there will be one or more helpers who may be thousands of miles mites away An employment analysis of the bureaus bureau's postwar inventory i reveals that of the man-hours man of labor required to construct all the projects about man-hours man will be re re- required required re- re required at construction sites Materials from 31 States The materials needed for rec rec- reclamation reclamation reclamation work of which such basic products as iron and steel cement electrical equipment and supplies foundry and shop machine m products and lumber are of primary importance importance importance tance must be obtained from widely separated sources Much of this ma may material and equipment will come from the 31 states outside the arid and semiarid regions of the west If funds are made available for construction of all ill the projects bureau officials estimate that more than men could be put to work the first year less than half of these at construction sites At peak employment in the second or third year almost men could receive reee ve pay envelopes in dif dif- different different ferent parts of the country as a re re- result result result sult of this mighty effort Agricultural and industrial enter enter- enterprises enterprises enterprises in the West will help to sup sup- support support port and give homes to servicemen and others who have expressed their desire to settle on irrigated farms Of the westerners in the armed forces it is estimated that will want to return to the land Jand Veteran legislation authorized and pending gives servicemen priority priority prIority of settlement on bureau of rec rec- reclamation projects On some projects eels public lands will be open to homestead entry |