Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-17
GERMAN WORKMEN ARE
ENJOYING PERIOD OF
RECORD PROSPERITY
As Men at Front Fell in lnOreaS-
inq Number Those Remaining
Home Found Abundant 0ppor-
tunity for Employment.

tunlty Tor Employment.
BERLIN, oct. 16.-The huge drains
and losses of thirteen months of war
have had the paradoxical effect of
placing the German workingman in
position of prosperity unexampled in
history. of raising his wages by and
large to a point they never attained
before, and of almost completely solv-
ing his unemployment problem.
The faster men at the front have
fallen and holes in the ranks had to
be filled, the better has become the
situation of the men at home, the
higher have mounted the savings
banks deposits 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 overtime Ia
Dor, 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 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
end of how to take care of him when
the war is over, when hundreds of
thousands of his fellows come stream
ing back from the front, when the
lucrative manufacture of war mater
ials suddenly stops.
Some think the problem is to be
solved by kindly employers who win
Immediately take back their former
employees. even though business and
trade do not at once resume their be-
forethe-war volume Others. less on
timistic are far-sightedly negotiating
with the government already and are
asking when hcstilites cease the hun
dreds of thousands not regularly EN-
ployed as soldiers shall be kept on
the rolls for eight or twelvei weeks
till economic matters adjust them
selves 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
20 begin again paying out the non
employment benefits that just now
have dwindled to the vanishing point.
And the government Is practically
pledged TO supply hundreds of mil.
lions of marks, If necessary, toward
the same end
The labor situation i'm Berlin today
IS more than fair measure by which
. TO gauge the situation throughout the
empire More than ever since the be.
ginning of the war there has been an
influx of workers from the country.
attracted by the high wages prevail.
ing, especially i'm those trades cater
ing to army needs.
+ Tho country has always had a small
or percentage of men unfit for mill.
tary service than the city. The needs
of the army, therefore. which have
called for most of the men who are
fit has created q greater shortage Of
workmen in the small towns than In
the cities, and the labor situation.
from the mems point of view. in the
former is in general even better than
in the latter
In Berlin the situation was never
+ rosier-from the standpoint of the
Worker-as the following figures will
attest
AT the great central employment bu.
reau maintained by the principal
branches of labor in Berlin. between
45 and so trades are represented. At
the end of the first week in Septeu-
Der Is OF these trades reported that
not one member was out of employ
ment 30 others reported from to
1873 members unemployed, and emit
tied 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 2l 1914, numbered s4O6
among the trades represented
The city of Berlin assists in sup.
. porting the unemployed. and adds on
] am average 30 per cent OF what the
trades themselves pay out to this
sum Yet during the week ending
August p last the city was forced to
spedn through this channel but one
half of 1856 marks. while during the
week ending November 2. 1914. unem
ployment had been so great that the
clty's share had been one-half of 54.
607 marks
r The amounts paid out to unem
ployed trade workers through the cen
ltral employment bureau. on the one
hand during the week ending Novem
Der ?, 1914, and on the other durine
the week ending August n. indicate
JAS SUCCESSFULLY as anything else how
4 unemployment has dwindled with the
advance of the war.
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