Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-02
labor Shortage
Is NOT RELIEVED
Call in Marshalltown For Both
Skilled and unskilled Work
men Increases
MECHANICS IN GREAT DEMAND
Manufacturers and Builders Cry, Thru
the Newspapers, for HeIp-lnddstrial
Conditions in the City Never More
Favorable-colored Laborers From
South for shorthiIl Company.

| The demand for laboriug men as an
index to the Industrial conditions OF
community Just now indicates manu-
| facturers and builders of Marshalltown
are sailing ON the high tide Of pros
perity. The midsummer demand for
labor, which was unprecedented, con-
now than few months ago. AT the
present time Marshalltown is a. splen>
did field for men seeking employment.
! The demand from the shops is great
er. even, than from the builders, and
the opportunity for work extends to
lteamsters and to men willing and able
to do heavy manual labor One insti-
tuition, where the call for strong men
| is especially great has found 1t neces>
sary to send to the south for negroes
to fill the positions at the disposal OF
! the management. Mechanics In all lines
of trade will. unless an unexpected
change in conditions comes, be en-
ployed thru the entire winter.
| With the approach of the corn pick.
| ing season, farmers are casting about
| for men to garner the immense crop,
and there promises to be great short
! age of farm help The corn is stand
ing up well and 1t is probable great
deal of 1t will not be gathered until ar
ter snow Falls. Tall men would be
| aGnnnial1v y>rp fipin In ho al la-
cause of the unusual height Of the
corn.
The demand for help extends to the
gentle sex. and the want columns Of
the Times Republican daily contain
advertisements for housekeepers, do
mestics, cooks. mattresses, etc About
thirty housewives have inserted girl
wanted" advertisements in these col
umns during the past thirty days
| Manager c. r. Speers, of the A e.
Shorthill Company, who is advertising
for twenty men to work in the bridge
| and steel yards of the company, says:
There has never been so great a
| shortage Els now for the class of labor
we Requirement for ordinary, hard
work We now have twelve colored
men on the way here from Virginia
| to accept positions" Jokingly, he add
ed: There's a moral to this tale -
| we've got to elect Bryan to bring about
| conditions that will cause men to be
4 willing to accept any kind of a job
| The Marshalltown Cornice, Company,
one of the newer of the concerns en-
gagged in the manufacture of structural
materials in Marshalltown, is advertise
| ing for twenty skilled mechanics, tin
ners, cornice makers and skaters. The
| business of the company is increasing
so rapidly that Manager r. III. Duncan
| is finding difficulty in procuring the
required help to keep up with the or
ders which are pressing at this season
! of the year, because of the desire of
| builders to enclose their work before
cold weather.
| The Lennox Furnace Company is
now advertising for timers for en-
| ployment in the factory and to accept
employment with dealers over the
country who need workmen of that
| kind and are applying to the factory
for them. Twenty to thirty timers
could be given work at once either in
| the factory or in other towns, at good
salaries. The company is also seeking
| additional statesmen, but has not found
common labor difficult to secure.
| The Britain Packing Company has
been, short of competent help during
| the past summer, but as the present is
midway between busy seasons. the
| company has all the workmen it can
use just at present. The busy season
will open soon and Manager Click be-
| lieves he will be able to secure suffice
lent help, at least as soon rs the cold
weather compels a cessation of out of
door work
Contractor c. F. Reimer, who Is
erecting the new buildings at the Sol
| diers' Home, and who has several 9TH
! err contracts under way, has been short
Of common laborers all summer, and is
now short of skilled labor, having need
for number Of carpenters. His work
will demand the employment of men
we'll along in the winter season.
Swift & Co., who have been seeking
chicken pickers during the past few
weeks and were unable to secure the
force desired, have been able to pro-
cure just recently about all the help
required.
With the cool weather lessening the
demand for ice, the Iowa Artificial Ice
and Refrigerating Company, which has
had difficulty in securing a sufficient
force of Transfers, is not now short
handed, but the demand for coal has
turned the men with teams or compe-
tent to handle them, to the fuel deal
ers, who are finding this class of labor
insufficient to meet the demands. So
great is the call for Transfers that
dealers have sought to hire men from
other yards with the assurance of
steady employment thru the winter.
The opportunity to secure employ
ment that will last thru the winter is
being accepted by many men who have
been working on the city's water and
sewer extensions and on other jobs Of
this character, and this has caused
shortage in that class of labor. The
city has sufficient number of men,
however. to complete the extensions
now under way before the ground
| freezes.
NEW TOWNS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.