The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-02
WORK FOR THE WORKERS.
Homes for the Homeless and Prosperity
for All.


To the Editor of THE HERALD.
How can Salt Lake city become a great
manufacturing center?
How can it surpass Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Plttsburg and Lowell and un-
like those cities, never be afflicted with
hard times, strikes and locllouts?
How can it provide beautiful homes for
the workers and the blessings of advanced
civilization Tor each and every one?
How? Establish credit clearance
agency, under the autpiceS of Salt Lake
city, and employ every idle worker.
What has been done to promote the
copper smelter. vault and safe works and
the boulevard, and to encourage the es-
adjustment of tile and pottery works
! and the erection of sugar refinery here
shows what can be done by Salt Lake
people when they become thoroughly
aroused.
These are very important enterprises
and deserve every possible aid and en-
couragement, and for these purposes
more than $3.50, 600 in money, besides
valuable franchises will probably be do
mated.
Their value to the city will undoubtedly
far exceed the donations and subsidies
and yet, with all these industries in full
operation, there will be great many I'M
employed laborers in the city,
1t is to give employment to these unem-
ployed, and to make improvements and
to develop Industries that would never be
undertaken without it, and to guarantee
perpetual prosperity, that such an agency
should be organized here. The S150, 0OC
would be free and voluntary gifts to cap
italists, and not one dollar to labor. The
agency, like labor, would not require the
donation Of a solitary dollar.
Let parties who are anxious to make
this great manufacturing center, forever
free from strikes and lockouts, free from
anarchists and dynamite fiends, free from
vagrancy, vicious idlers or even an ex-
cuse for being unemployed, deposit $780,
600 in the city treasury to be used only
for purchasing raw material, machinery.
ETC., that cannot be produced here and
could not be dispensed with.
Start at once every useful industry that
could be carried on with the machinery.
material and appliances at hand, and that
would be turned in for credits and that
could be leased on favorable terms
Give employment to every person who
applies, at such work as he OF she is best
qualified to do, at the regular wages for
such work. and give credits TO every en-
ployee, from the highest to the lowest.
! Do all kinds of merchandising and
luiHiSA ali employees ana InGlr families
with everything they wish at actual cost
sell goods to outsiders at regular market
prices for spot cash or agency credits.
Make contracts for cheap lots and lands
in ali the suburbs and districts in all direc-
tions adjacent to the city and have deeds
put in escrow. Build and equip electric
street car lines and make cheap rates to
! these suburbs.
Start all the building trades az soon as
! mn h 10 80. Il ,o,,E 1. Ill
at preparing lumber and all other mater.
ial for building purposes.
Start at the earliest possible date the
manufacture and production of every
thing required by the agency, It's mem
bers, or for which good market can be
found. Pipe the natural gas from Lake.
side to The city and make use of it in every
possible way.
Pave the streets and sidewalks and ex-