Carpenter . maha 1,606 7,204,140 1,526 5,590,650 29 Indianapolis 3,968 6,786,595 3,920 5,933,522 14 Atlanta 4,399 5,551,941 4,154 4,833,961 15 Columbus 1,798 ^5,558,601 1,629 3,303,748 7 Louisville 2,841 3,172,311 2,909 2,914,141 9 Paterson, N. .1 841 2,529,384 735 2,208,830 14 Total for 59 cities $716,458,442 166,151 $508,454,406 41 This is a good showing and indicates a ous year in the building industry than the revival of confidence in business generally year 1909. Organized labor should do , ,, ^ j,^ £ -1 everything in its power to help accomplish throughout the country after
Carpenter . maha 1,606 7,204,140 1,526 5,590,650 29 Indianapolis 3,968 6,786,595 3,920 5,933,522 14 Atlanta 4,399 5,551,941 4,154 4,833,961 15 Columbus 1,798 ^5,558,601 1,629 3,303,748 7 Louisville 2,841 3,172,311 2,909 2,914,141 9 Paterson, N. .1 841 2,529,384 735 2,208,830 14 Total for 59 cities $716,458,442 166,151 $508,454,406 41 This is a good showing and indicates a ous year in the building industry than the revival of confidence in business generally year 1909. Organized labor should do , ,, ^ j,^ £ -1 everything in its power to help accomplish throughout the country after the financial ^, / „ ^ -, ^ ^^ • ^^ ^ :, t \^ * that fact and to attain that end. Let us panic we went through a short time ago. therefore be on our guard against creatingUnless the unexpected or unforseen hap- unnecessary industrial upheavals and stop-pens, the year 1910 will be a more prosper- page of work. WHY BUSINESS MEN AND UNION MEN SHOULDSUPPORT EACH OTHER. (By A. E. Wyatt, B. A., Newark, N. J.). HEEE is one reason, if noother, why business men,especially merchants,should favor union laborin preference to cheapnon-union labor, and thatreason is, that if laboris poorly paid, the wageearner will have nomoney to spend with themerchant. Every business man knows, ifhe will stop to think, that the retail housedepends upon the wage earners for 90 percent, of their trade, and if he had to de-pend upon the trade of the rich for his sup-port, the retail merchant would stand asmall chance of succeeding in business. Ifthe working people are prosperous, the mer-chant thrives in his trade. And when theworkingman s wages are cut down, it takesjust that much cash from the till of thebusiness man, and just that much comfort from the cottage fireside. Is not that suffi-cient reason why the business men of thiscountry should support and encourage thegreat masses of organized labor? Theunion men in this country are not so blindor deaf that they do not know their know the
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