The labor standard., 1919-05-15
LABOR BUREAU REPORT DEALS WITH
 CONNECTICUT'S WORKERS AND INDUSTRIES
Labor Commissioner Received About 500 Complaints From Workers Who Could Not Receive Wages on Leaving Jobs Being Discharged From Employment

were from March to September, 1917 ninety-seven out of the total of 183 occurring during that period.
 I Free Employment Offices
 Notwithstanding the establishment of the system of federal employment offices in fourteen cities in the state paralleling the state offices in Hart ford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Water bury and Norwich, the state offices did a much larger business than ever be- fore, securing 65,943 positions in the two years compared with 37, ,4O4 in the preceding two year period. The fed eral offices were supplied with from three to seven employees compared with one in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury and Norwich and two in age cost to the State for each position filled was 30 cents compared with 90 cents in Massachusetts in the state employment offices. Hartford led in the number of positions secured, 21,- 629 in the two years, the cost per position being 2O.5 cents during 1918.
 Equipment and Help Shy
 Commissioner Hyde points out how l cAS OV~tS SAAPASy oAAASSS AAe~S V been starved in equipment and help compared with the federal offices as the state appropriation is only suffici- ent to provide for superintendent and very modest quarters in each of the five state offices-usually one room. The federal offices on the con- trary are provided with separate rooms for men and women and have from two to seven employees in each office and everything provided in the way of equipment necessary for the er's appeal for larger appropriation and one thousand dollars a year for each office to provide for extra help was granted by the legislature. The superintendents are commended for their zeal.
 Detailed Occupations
 During 1917 the number of occupa- tions filled by the five offices for males Norwich 54, Waterbury 35, New Haven s4 and Bridgeport 29. in 1918 there were 104 occupations filled for males, Hartford leading with 55, fol- lowed by Bridgeport with 49, Water bury 40, Norwich 38 and New Haven 30. Hartford was the only office to place tobacco hands, apprentices, bag gagemen, berry pickers, bootblacks, brazers, bricklayers, bridgemen, buff fers, canvassers, expressmen, glaziers, grinders, bod carriers, iron workers, proofreaders, pianist, fathers, wood workers, ushers, typists, nurses, nur- serymen, pattern makers and pinboys.
 The Norwich office specialized in furnishing help for textile mills and for the machine shops,. and the Bridgeport office furnished hundreds of shopmen in 1918.
 There were forty-five occupations represented in the female help SUD- piled in 1917 in the five offices. Nor wich, located in the smallest city, leading with 21, followed by Bridge port and Hartford with 20, Water bury with 15 and New Haven with IA.
 The number of occupations for women rose to 49 in 1918, Norwich again leading with 25, followed by Bridgeport with ,23, Waterbury and Hartford 19 and New Haven 16. Nor wich placed female inspectors, ma shovelers, speeder tenders, bottle top pers, weavers and winders. New Haven led all the rest in the number of women sent out to do daywork in both 1917 and 1918 while Bridgeport led in placing housemaids and house keepers.
 Detailed Nationalities
 The service of the offices in catering to all nationalities without discrimi- nation is revealed in the report on nationalities placed. In 1917 there were Az nationalities represented in the men placed, Hartford leading with ST, New Haven 32, Bridgeport 23, Norwich p and Waterbury 19. In 1918 the same number of nationalities was recorded, Hartford enrolling 36, Bridgeport 31, New Haven 28, Nor wich 16, Waterbury 15. The system of classification adopted in the various offices was not uniform but taking Americans led with 9,169, followed by the Irish with 4552, Polish 1907, French 657, Colored 579, Italians 571, Germans 552, Russians 511 and Lithu- nians 49S.
 The Hartford office placed one Alba nian, New Haven placed one Arabian, one Cuban and one Japanese and Waterbury placed one East Indian. Waterbury placed more Belgians than any other nationality except Amer ican, only one Lithunian being repre- sented in that strong Lithunian center.
 Norwich was represented by 42 Canadians. Hartford placed 513' Frenchmen. Of the 125 Hebrews placed, Hartford records 124, Bridge port placed 150 Hungarians out of I'll. Hartford was alone in placing Dutch, Galatians, Ruthenians and Ukranians. New Haven led in plac- ing Russians, Danish, Bohemians, Americans, Greeks, Italians, Portu- guese, Swiss and West Indians.
 In 1918 the male nationalities varied little from 1917. No Chinese were placed by any of the officers. The number of female nationaities placed in 1917 was 30. Hartford is represented by p, New Haven 21, Bridgeport IS, Norwich 16 and Water bury IA. In 1918 there were 29 nationalities of which Bridgeport placed 21, Hartford and New Haven 20, Norwich 12 and Waterbury II. In 1917 the Irish led with 3,943, fol-