Arizona republican., 1915-10-11
Lack of Men in Manufac- turing Plants Creates a Condition of Prosperity for Those Who Remain to Foil at Home
TRADE UNIONS
 ARE JUBILANT
Employment Agencies of the Organizations Report But Very Few Men in the Whole Empire Are With out Work
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrsPATcH1

1 BERLIN, Oct. 10.-The huge drains
 have had the paradoxical effect of plac- : ing the German workingman in a posi- ton of prosperity uneXcmpled in his 1 history of raising his wages by and ! large to a point they never attained be- fore, and of almost completely solving
 his non employment problem. The faster men at the front have fal- len and holes in the ranks had to be
 filled the better has become the situ- | ation of the men at home the higher have mounted the savings banks de- posits 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-in- creased about in proportion to the withdrawals.
 Yet the very fact that the worker who has stayed at home is having an unprecedented hey-day has created a problem which his leaders, if not he, is studying and worry over-the problem of what is to become of him and of how to take care Of him when the war is over, when hundreds of thousands of his fellows come streaming back from the front, when the lucrative manufac- ture of war materials suddenly stops.
 Some think the problem is to be solved by kindly employers who will Ir11IR .arNs +11,- +.,I-z
 employees, even though business and trade do not at once resume their be- fore -the-war volume Others. less op- timistic, are far -sightedly negotiating with the government already and are asking that no matter when hostilities cease the hundreds Of thousands not regularly employed as soldiers shall he kept on the rolls for eight or twelve weeks till economic matters atliust themselves and the men can get back to work
 The organized trades are billing up small fortunes in their traesnrias, against the time when they shall have to begin again paying out the non employment benefits that just now have dwindled to the vanishing point And tke government is practicauv pledged to supply hundreds of millions of marks, if necessary, toward this same end
 The labor situation in Berlin today is more than a fair measure b,, which to gauge the situation throughout inc er,- plre More than ever since the begin hlng of the war there has been an in Tux of workers from the country at tracted by the high wages prevailing especially in those trades catering to army needs.
 The country has always had sn,.l- Ter percentage of men unfit for milf tarY service than the city The needs or the army therefore. which have called for most of the men who are fiji hdS created greater shortage of work men Tn the small towns than in tba cltles' and the labor situation. from tba mems polnt of view in the former is Ill general even better than in the Iat- ter. 'Ho i"'-
 In Berlin the situation never u..s iosler-lrom the standpoint of tba "orker-as the following figures will attest VIII
 AL the great Central Employment bureau maintained by other princinaI prahches of labor in Berlin betweor f9 ana DO trades are represented Al lhe end of the first week in Septe,.rbar 10 or these trades reported that not ono 'ieinoer was out of employment. 3O ''Heis reported from 1 to 1S3 members unemployed, and entitled to unemplov- neht support. The total number draw hs thls support was $40: six trados lao one man apiece four had two men tnu three had three, The unemnlov-
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