The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-02

(Continued From Page One, controversies being the marine sit uatioh, the dispute in the printing : industry, which todays develop ments indicate will not result in q nationwide strike, and the railroad situation which has not reached a dangerous point as yet.
 Great Strike Averted.
 Employers acceptance iii many cities of A hour week in the printing industry, the main point at issue, apparently has aveTted q great national strike in book and job printing shops although local officials of the. International Typo graphical Union have been instruct ed to call strikes in all such shops where the new working week is not put into effect. Strikes are expected in several cities in the East and South.
 Slightly more than 2,G00,000 men were unemployed in nineteen states when May Bay was ushered in, ac- cording to estimates Of government, state, labor and industrial officials.
 A large percentage of those who are unable to obtain work are in the big industrial sections of tie East ern and Central States, included in these nineteen states from which m employed figures could be ob- taincd, but reports from the other 29 states where figures were un- obtainable, all show that unemploy- ment exists and the estimated un- employment of the country, made by experts including labor leaders, range from 3,000,00O to 5000, 00U persons.
 Eastern States Hit.
 Reports of much unemployment show up from New York. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio while practi- cally every state east of the Missis- Isippi River and north of the Mason and Dixon line is seriously affected by the wave that has swept over the country during the last year The reports indicate that the situation in these more densely populated
 The report of the United States Government Employment Service showed that on January first of this year the leading cities of the coun try with a population of 32,560,953 had total of 1,802,755 unemployed and subsequent bulletins issued by this service indicate that this num- Der has increased somewhat in these cities during the last four months. Optimism Prevails.
 While the unemployment extends to the West and South, yet in the reports from the former decided tone of optimism prevails for a re- sumption of business activity that would speedily do away with the unemployment while in the South the situation does not appear to be of a serious nature and reports state that when the agricultural work is in full swing the surplus of labor will be small.
 New York City, Philadelphia, Chi cago, Detroit, and Cleveland stand out as the centers of the unemploy- ment wave.
 James H. Maurer, President Of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor estimates that about 5,000,- 900 are unemployed in the United States, but government statistics and individual reports from almost all states do not quite bear out this igure, although they do indicate that the total is somewhere between 3,000,000 and 4.000,0C0.
 Coast Conditions.
 On the Pacific Coast unemploy laent appears to be lessening.
 Unemployment conditions in Cali fornia, which at no time during the winter were acute. are improv- ing with the coming of summer weather, according to John P. Me Laughlin, State Labor Commissioner
 There is asurplus a of men in the state at present. but the agricultural work is gradually cutting down the numbers" MT. Mclaughlin said "A rough guess would place the num- Der of unemployed at around 30,-I 900 at present.
 The unemployment situation in Oregon has been gradually improv- ing since the first of the year, ac-I cording to c. H. Gram, State Labor Commissioner. With numbering op- erations slowly resuming, and agri- cultural work taking many idle men from the cities, there has been a de-