The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-30
LABOR IS
DISCUSSED
Numerous Speakers Adj
dress the Philadelphia
Meeting
MRS. ANDREWS
ON PAY LOST
By the Changing of Jobs
Organization Is
Needed

: Philadelphia, Dec. 30.-The American
|. Association on Unemployment devoted
e its second session at the Hotel Walton
: yesterday to consideration of the re-
: ports of special Investigators and dis
) cussion of public employment bureaus.
Mr.. Charles h. Crane, the president OF
! the association, is vice president OF the
Crane company and chairman of the Chi
, cago Commission on the Unemployed.
, Seasonality in industry was discussed
by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, collaboration
, with the English economist, Sidney
Webb, on Seasonal Trades" She re-
Gently completed study OF this prob
lem through the cooperation of the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce and the AS
ISOLATION on Unemployment, and her in
vestigations revealed widespread irregu-
larity of employment among workers in
the building, boot and shoe, printing, Gig
ar making, and other trades. The per-
centage Of building trades union mem
bers unemployed in Boston has not fall
en- below 10 per cent in any winter since
1907, according to this investigator, and
has usually reached or passed 20 per
cent For nnskiled labor the conditions
hit tHtlti NblSt 4HitipNtlSs Nhiu liz
speaker, "can do much to increase the
regularity OF employment. Several are
making this special object and have
organized employment departments with
a specialized trained employment manag
er at their head. One is even contem-
plating unemployment insurance for his
workers.
| An enormous amount Of shifting from
| Job to job among women workers, with
consequent irregularity Of employment |
and loss Of wages, was reported by Irene |
Osgood Andrews, who pointed out that |
the need for three meals day, clothes |
and shelter does not fall off az wages DO |
when work is slack. "One department |
store declared Mrs. Andrews, stated |
that it employed 10000 persons during a
year to keep up force that was never
larger than Dab In 10 confectionery
establishments 3,l3S persons were en-
ployed to maintain an average force Of
953. The net result of this irregularity
is a still further reduction in earnings
that are low at best. Out OF over ! 900
women workers in the better candy fac
tories of New York City, two-thirds lost
more than 10 per cent of their rate, while
nearly a fifth lost more than a quarter
Of their supposed earnings on account OF
Unemployment" Minimum wage boards
wherever established should aid in SC. 4
curing greater regularity OF work as vel .
as in fixing the minimum OF pay, Mrs.
Andrews thought Ii
Frank O'Hara OF the Catholic Univer.
'ity OF America, who directed the inves-
LEGATIONS in 1914 OF the Oregon commit
tee OF the Association on Unemployment,
spoke on public works IL is the duty
OF those charged with the expenditure OF
public money for labor declared DR.. ]
OHara, TO study the conditions OF the
labor market Even where the cost az
executing public work IS slightly higher
in industry's duh season, il will be found
that IN the long run il is true economy
to furnish the workers OF the nation with 2
a steady opportunity to earn a living i
rather than to furnish them with inter- e
mittent doles Of charity"
"What Awakened Employers Are Il
About was the theme of Rob
ri g. Valentine, industrial councillor. Of 2
Boston az last evenings session. THAT
sc have 30 long accepted the present y
.haotic conditions Of industry as ineyi
ii bic instead Of intolerable and absurd Is a.
8rgcly because We have considered them
problem OF the individual plant only. ~
nd not a. part Of world wide continu n
ng situation declared Mr. Valentine !"
"Tho Massachusetts, bureau of Stats "
ics reported az the close OF September ~
hat over 5000 members Of trade nm y
1ns were idle. This was n per cent Of
n the members reported This takes no
ccpunt Of the unorgAnized. unskilled
-orkmcn. m each particular factory Fl
81 men who were laid of ceased 20 b.
1me a direct charge upon the employer
IL clearly these thousands 81 mcn and
heir wives and children must stil o. n
1mehoW fed and clothed and housed D, ~
working population redueed in uuni-
ere IT
ITO Overcome be social wastes result A.
g from thi- eaaric condition The
1eaber continued involves choice 81 6f
seen tWo lines 81 aefian: society must ~
thsr adrsnoe rapidly toward a Social
SIC cantlol 81 industry ~ limit The in
.riaBs consequence ~ uurestrainrd is
tidusl affi1n hf q thorough guin1 ~ Nc
iHi7rtiou 0f E1eiaI r=Hfanee.
Ths maars organization tough
1oliam 81 administration IS tra-euto4
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e. Fl ur pnouie wir rtAe ate theae ri
Ita.lrs far under 30 etrrurastanras ~
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MORRIS A. D1atf Phfiafelnta Director ~
~ wrks daarea tlaf 49, ctr -
a1 increase tae am1slrt "a HhN
tirr-rsltt f times 81 fransfraI 20
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