The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
PROSPERITY FOR
 GERMAN ROCKINGHAM ONE OF
 STRANGE RESULTS OF THE WAR

military service than the city. The needs of the army therefore, which have called for most of the men who are fit, has created a greated short age of workmen in the small towns than in the cities, and the labor situ- ation, from the mems point of view, in the former is in general even bet ter than in the latter
 In Berlin the situation never was rosier-fron the standpoint of the worker-as the following figures will attest.
 At the great Central Employment Bureau maintained by the principal branches of labor in Berlin, between 45 and 50 trades are represented
 At the end of the first week in Sep tember 15 of these trades reported that not one member was out of em- p1oyment; 30 others reported from to 183 members unemployed, and en- titled to unemployment support. The total number drawing this support was $40; six trades had one man apiece; four, had two men, and three had three The unemployment on November. 21, 1914, numbered 8, ,406, among the trades represented.
 The city of Berlin assists in sup porting the unemployed, and adds on an average 50 per cent. of what the trades themselves pay out to this sum- Yet during the week ending August 21 last the city was forced to expend through this channel but one-half of 1, ,7S6 marks, while during the week ending November 2, 1914, unempIoy- ment had been so great that the city's share had been one-half Of 54,8O7
 marks.
 , The amounts paid out to unemploy-. ed trade workers through the Central Elm pIoyrnent Bureau, on the one hand during the week ending November 2, 1914, and on the other during the week ending August 21, indicate as suggestively as anything else how un- employment has dwindled with the advance of the war. The following figures covering some of the more important trades serve as good ex- amples:
 Unemployed metal workers receiv- ed in the November week 6,879.3O, marks in August 276; building trades workers in November t.956.85 marks lin August 220. marks; Photographers, GAG, ,40=9.5O marks; painters, 279.S5 -12 marks; textile workers, 744.10- 63.6o marks; printers, 1,279. .85-12 marks; tobacco workers, 67.5o-4 marks; wood workers, 11,081. 35- 470. .a0 marks; transportation company employees, 3,482.15--16.1O marks.
 The economic reason for the de- crease in. almost the disappearance of unemployment. lies naturally. in the ever-increasing number of men who have been drawn into the army. In such trades in which wages have in creased markedly, the places of some I of the absentees have been flled-but never all of the places.
 This figures showing the number employed on July, 1, 1915, and the number drawn for military service up to June 30, 1915, when tota11ed to- gether in a majority of eases add up to more than the total employed on July 1, 1914. In other words, indus trial recruits have been found. but never enough to keep wages from rising.
 The following table shows the status of the area-fzed workers 4of
 rlin. In the first column is the number employed on July l. 1915; in the second the number, drawn into the army up toeJune. 30. 1915; in the third the total employed on July 1. 1914; and in the fourth. for purposes of showing how the demands of the. army have increased, the number that had been called upon to sefve up Ito the 31st of December. 1914.