The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16


drains and losses of Is months OF
war have had the paradoxical effect
of placing the German working man
in a position of prosperity unexam-
pied in hiS history, of raising his
wages to a point they new at
tanned before, and of amost com
pletely solving his unemployment
problem.
The faster men have fallen and
holes in the ranks had to be filled,
the better has become the situation
of the man at home. the higher
have mounted the savings banks de-
posts of the few doing the work OF
the former many.
Each month has drawn from the
ranks of nearly all trades men
whose places have not been filled,
yet whose work has had, to be done.
The work has been done in part by
over time labor, in part by workers
whose value, and in consequence
whose pay, increased about in pro-
portion.
let tie very ldCC CudC chO WIN
err who has stayed at home is hav-
ing an unprecedented heyday has
created a problem which his leaders,
if not he, is studying and worrying
over, the problem of what is to
become of him and of how to take
ARE of him when the war is over.
when hundreds of thousands of his
fellow men come streaming back
from the front, when lucrative man
u%facture of war materials suddenly
stops.
Some think the problem is to be
solved by kindly employers. who will
Immediately take back their former
employees, even though business and
trade do not at once resume their
before the war volume. Others, less
optimistic, are far %sightedly nego-
tiating with the government already
arJd are asking that no matter when
hostilities cease the hundreds of
thousands not regularly employed as
soldiers shall be kept on the rolls for
eight or IL weeks till economic mat
ters adjust themselves and the men
can get back to work.
The organized trades are piling Up
small fortunes in their treasures
against the time when they shall
have to begin again paying out the
non-employment benefits that lust
now have dwindled to the vanishing
point. And the government Is
practically pledged to supply nun
dreds of millions of marks, if e
essary, toward this same end.
The labor situation in Berlin iO>
day is more than a fair measure by
which to gauge the situation over
the empire. More than ever since
the beginning of the war there has
been an influx of workers from the
country, attracted by the high
wages prevailing, especially in those
trades catering to army needs.
The country has always had a
smaller percentage of men unfit for
military service than the city. The
needs of the army. which have calico
for most OF the men who are fit. has
created a greater shortage of
workmen in the small towns than in
the cities, and the labor situation.
from the mems point of view, in tie
former is in general even better than
in the latter.
In Berlin the situation never was
roster, from the standpoint Of she
workers. At the great central en-
ployment bureau maintained by the
principal branches of labor in Berlin
between As and so trades are repre-.
scented. At the end of the first week
in September Is of these trades re-
ported hal not one member was
out of employment; 80 others re
ported from one to 1873 members I'm
employed. and entitled to unemplov-
ment support. The total number
drawing this support was $40; six
trades had n man apiece; four
had two men, and three had three
The unemployment of Nov. 81, 1914,
numbered S,4O6, among the trades
represented.
The city of Berlin assists in sup
porting the unemployed and adds
on an average so per cent of what
the trades themselves pay out to this
sum. Yet during the week ending
Aug, 81. 1915, the city was forced
to eXpe1id through this channel but
one-half Of 1,7S6 marks, while dur
ing the week ending Nov. 2, 1914,
unemployment had been so great
that the city's share had been one
half of 54,S07 marks.
The amounts paid out to unem-
ployed trade worker through the
central employment buerau. on the
one hand during the week ending
--ov. 2. 1914, and on the other dur,