Mexico Missouri message., 1916-03-02
THE NEEDS OF MEXICO
FrOm The Daily Intelligencer)
BY FRED A. MORRIS

a.
They Say column the writer thinks public should be
definitely Informed as to G. AS meaning Does &C. r. Al
the company brick plant should
in a monopoly of the aborers of different kindsY
There competition mention in the employment OF
labor Mexico there will be will the population
increase until other industries established.
As it stands today aborer must take the wage offered or
very good that there is little
competition here and he obtain higher wages elsewhere and
where there is than employer of labor
The fact that these conditions exist can be verified by
tour of the city.
ped rented to travelling hold lucrative po
There modern house Mexico but there
working people Where has the working gomez answer
Elsewhere to get employment and at better wages.
&C. R. Al is in the statement that community is
just what the citizens make it. Mexico booster for her home
and without peer sre Te andbsp & &
there must be cooperation and good will
For five years. have been the Board of Directors of the
Commercial Club Within that time many meetings have been
held for the establishment OF industries here Even the mere
test There is not labor in Mexico sufficient to supply
demand; let take of what we have, etc.
possesses comparatively few knockers of this kind
they always exceedingly easily
ed because of their small personal investments likely in
one the other of the few things We have
The actively engaged business Is years
has given much time development and has viewed the
will Mexico is development industries of
kinds that will compete for and employ all the abOrers and
bring in good citizens Of the wOrkngman type.
Thousands will here there but the for
pyment AS it man who loses his position must leave town
this because of dishonesty No. it due to the prevailing
dlhons here.
overgrown for agrcuturists
the of Cenrala would be adequate if Mexico
la center for farm trade only.
Today Onehaf of the business houses the capital
vested could take of all the business that
coming to unless the manufacturing industries of the city
creased
Property and others may take their choice
Lately there has been talk of subscribing
double the capacity Of of industries
far but does not in itself the needs
We boosters for the A P Green Fire Brick
the international Shoe Company and proud of both nsu
tons but the town would be enthusiastic both indus
tries they placed notice their front doors the effect that
wages are to be increased
There but few Soomons left this
y for the business and the property
create a Solomon.
Another fire brick plant the west side of Mexico
other shoe factory the east side will do the work!
There would be influx of people, higher wages paid adj
in property values denquents would pay their bills
would be easier house building revived and the worker
porous.
If would feed the hungry and cothe the poor work
the direction of the establishment of industries Then
committee charities appointed by and elsewhere
will be looking for other fields of endeavor
CHARITY work should begin with employers the form
of regular employment far possible and better pay
employees Flaty said the laborng competition
the employers if he
labors
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