The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-24


must confess, however, that the man
agement of public business by the repre-
sentatives of the people in Salt Lake
during the present city administration is
not such as to give much confidence in
the honesty and efficiency of municipal
management. The recent disclosures in
the water1orks department, the rotten
ness that was shown IN the police depart
ment, the charges against the chief of the
fire department which have not been
cleared up to the satisfaction of every
one, the extravaganza and misman-
agement connected with the erection of
the city and county building, and the
suspicion that there is crooked work in
connection with the gravity sewer, make
people feel that the city council could not
be safely trusted with any more powers.
1t seems as if too many city officials
look upon public Office as private snap,
out OF which they should make as
much as possible. The charges
and counter charges. the exhibitions
Of spite and jealousy, and the
unseemly wrangling that mark nearly
every meeting of the council are enough
to disgust decent people. l know that
the workingmen and taxpayers who are
not enjoying some private advantage
through some city official, are getting ex-
ceeding tired of all this nonsense.
| More than one Liberal has told me that
he was ready to unite with the decent
men of any other party to try and elect
an honest, efficient and responsible city
government at the next election. There
are plenty of such men in Salt Lake who
could give us a good, clean administra-
ton, whose powers could be expanded
withouJ danger. There are also enough
votes by an overwhelming majority. II
we say that such men can't be elected we
had better give up the republican form of
government as failure and go back to
the rule OF kings.
The World has collected statistics of the
unemployed in New York city. Accord
| ing to these the army of the idle number
sc, III, divided among nearly every trade.
This does not embrace the unorganized
and unskilled laborers Of the city.
The following are statistics Of the idle
in other cities gathered by labor unions:
In Buffalo nearly every branch of in
dustry is affected. A canvass of the city
leads to the belief that between 15, 600 and
! q, 900 men are out of employment.
According to conservative estimate,
San Francisco's unemployed number
about 5000. Many OF these are skilled
artisans, but they are cared for by the
trades unions and there is hardly any
suffering. The greater number, however,
is of unskilied labor, and among them is
considerable distress.
| Fully $1,000 men are out of work in
Cleveland More than 200 applied to the
Bethel associated charities in one day for
work. Many are suffering from hunger.
There are II 900 employees out of work
in Detroit, 8 600 of them stove moulders.
There are 5000 unemployed in Cincin-
natl, the carpenters being the most nu-
merous. Painters come next, and of the
600 moulders, union and non-union,
fully one-half are unemployed.
| For the first time in its history the Ma
tional Tube works at McKeesport have
been obliged to close down for the lack
of orders. Over 1000 men have been
thrown out of work at that point.
| Seven thousand operatives have been
| thrown out OF work by the shutting down