Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-21
WORK FOR EVERYBODY.
Occupations in Which the Demand
Now Exceeds the Supply.

1here Is work for everybody who
wants il in the United States to-day
says the Utica Globe If any we'll man
Is lille it is because he is lazy; or thinks
/ the value of his labor is greater than
the man who can employ him viii pay
4 for it; or because he has accumulated
! enough of the fruits of toll so that he
/ can look with contempt upon it. Immi-
1 grafton is at food tide. The countries of
| Europe which offer so little to their peo-
/ pie in return for the loyalty and service
I which they exact are sending Us great
throngs Of strong and ambitious, if not
mind-molded, men and women, so that
one is forced to speculate as to how they
are to sustain themselves here. And
While we speculate, the problem solves
itself The great vortex of industry
! clutches them with a grip which they
cannot escape and they become a part
Of the producing machinery which makes
| tins nation the industrial marvel Of the
World
1t is an Unsuitable demand which the
varied occupations of America make
upon its cosmopolitan populace. From
the Atlantic to the Pacific the call is
heard for more men. The channels of
commerce absorb them. The manufac-
tories which throw upon the markets &C.
the world a wonderful mass of utilities
which are eagerly purchased are con-
stantly drawing upon the native and the
| incoming population for help. These oc-
equations, with their greater remunera-
ton and shorter hours, rob the farm of
the men it needs They take from the
building trades young men of skill and
stamina who, despite the splendid wages
of construction artisans, think that the
larger industries, with their steadier and
less hazardous employment, offer better
means of livelihood. They take from the
kitchen and the chamber the domestic,
for the average girl, with persistency
which facts do not warrant, sticks to
the belief that homework offers her less
| independence, less pay and more de-
| meaning service than the shop and the
mill. To her folly she sacrifices comforts
which the manufacturing plant and the
store counter cannot yield, and Opportu-
mites for self-improvement which can
nowhere be found in such generous meas
ure as under the mistress of a household
with kindly heart and fat purse.
Three phases of the Industrial situation
are evident In the first is the scarcity
of farm labor The fields are ripe and
the harvest is plentiful, but where are
the reapers? The tiller of the soil could
give employment to many more. Not
only in the great Northwest, but in New
York State, there is scarcity of men.
The Department of Agriculture says the
Empire State wants 10000 farm hands
and will pay each from $50 to $3.50 per
season. So limited are the hired men
that farmers have to give their own time
| in exchange with one another in order to
work their fields. Another phase is the
need of builders in Pittsburg, which is
typical of other large cities. But there,
especially, telegraph dispatches report a
dearth of men in the building lines, so
pronounced that five firms have offered a
bonus of from 80 cents to 81 per day
above the highest union wages. Manu-
factTers have asked the building trades
for 1000 more men, the shortage having
seriously delayed work on some impor-
tant buildings. The demand is especially
for masons bricklayers, carpenters.
structural iron workers, housesmiths,
sheet metal workers and puddlers in iron
mills. The third phase is the ever pres
ent need of domestic servants.