The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-05


captain has evidently gwen the signal
for prospert PIay an along the
Hne, WITH Em around the end to
goal, n possible; and souae Of the
team have tried to execute the nzn-,
sseuEer -.
The game was to convince the peor
Ep4e that prosperity has returned and
that q Ereat Jos, accompandedb by high
wages, Is Sder1ockEol-smB ever
fabsebodied man. Brt adj at once.
the play WIS a,roken up by the 5ursau
Of labor statistics In tho department
Ement IN a5ew FORK city. Tae report
is based on census Of 104 city 61ocks
selected 10 include all reDzeseneaEve1
number OF families Of Ta-toEs ma
ttonaaiEes and all classes Of Indus
trail workers, conabined with cen
isns OF an families e Q Teo Individual
tenement houses and resi5e1ces. Gov
erinz a stM WIDER range OF dSt
button.
The enumeration was made IN the
first half OF February, 1910 lnSoS
nation was obtained f-oIa o4,Sf9
families having total menbersED OF
rs, 9as persons. OF WHICH a inoea
sG443 were wage Gamers. OF these
famil.es m.I26 bad one or more wage
earners out OF work, showing an az
tsregate OF 15,4d1 persons. or a62 per
cent of All wage Gamers in these
families without employment OF any
kind. The total number OF wage
eaners in New York city In ISIS,
Is approximately 2,445.eoe- The per
eentage Of unemp1oycoent found
among the members OF 1888 fam1-1
lies visited d6.2 per cent? applied
to this number. shows fnaf me Sot z1l
number OF unemployed In New York
city was about 2SS. 600. That esti-I
mate does not include any OF the
Irregular or part-tfne workers
A tabulatIon of the unenployed by
periods of unemployment shows thar
III per cent had been out OF work
more than $50 days; 26-4 per cent
more than 1e0 days 1913 per cent
more than 90 days; SIS Der cent
more than SO days; T6.4 per cent
more than 80 days; SS:4 per cent
more than 10 days and 92-s per cent
were out OF work at least one Week
The occupations or trades having the
largest number OF persons unem-
ployed out of the total Of d5;417 We're:
Common Iaborers. 3440. building
trades. 2,o45, and the clothing trade
1.7S1L The fact is noted, however,
that. the figures were obtained at
season OF the year. when work IN
the building trades and IN the clotn:
ing trades is normally slack and tnal
the number out OF work reported Tor
these trades was affected to a large
extent by the slack season
In the report are embodied the re-
suits OF two investigations made by
ORGANIZATIONS IN New York city, the
mayors committee on Unemployment
and the Metropolitan Lie Insurance
Comnany. The mayors committee re-
ported that the increase in the num-
der OF unemployed, based on me oe
crease of employment, was ABOUT
per cent Of the total nImDer OF
workers employed in December, lsLs-
And it was estimated that ABOUT wv,
600 more persons were employed IN
New York in December I5hf 1naH
in December. 1913.
At about the same time the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company u1aoe
an investigation as to unemployment
INV a canvass OF families OF Eoo:96O
no1icy-holders of the company and
found that 4J421 persons, or IS per
cent Of all wage earnerS IN those
families, were out Of employmen1-
The greater proportion OF unenploy-
ment reported is accounted Ior
largely by the fact that this survey
vas made nearly month earlier
IN The season than tae Investigation
made by the federal bureau, and at
time when the extent OF unemp1oy-
mont was probably somewhat greater