The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-05-04

tai is somewhere between 5000, o00
ana 100000.
j Condensed reports from tae var:o;s
centers show:
Approximately $4,000 Of New
/ York States $4,000 factory work
ers vii! be unemployed May ! us Z
result of industrial conditions Fac
tory wages average 10 per cent tower
than in October 1920. when the high
! point was reached. Wage reductions
are expected all along the line May i.
Approximately 5000 members Of
! algamated Clothing Workers of
America are on strike in New York
! iC,ity-largeSt strike IN city. Severai
, thousand hoa makers out as We'll as
900 misses and chillren,s dress and
waist makers. Severe; thousand Gus
tom tailors are out, including those
in Fifth Avenue ana Broadway Shops.
I An strikes against wage reductions
and for union recognition. Numerous
other smaller shop strikes.
SITUATION quiet in baild!nS trades
Industry in New York city, bu; ap-
! roximately 80 per cert Of the organ
| lied $4,000 building trades workers
without employment. The majority
Of the union agreements run to fa!i
or next spring. No attempt by en-
plosers or employees to change wa g
schedules Only labor trouble i'm
iportance just settled when $4,000 un-
! ion painters signed new agreement
with employers after strike II many
weeks
| Marine situation unsettled. Thou
sands out Of work on the water from.
| Only six thousand OF the $4,000 ma
rine workers on railroad and other
floating equipment in harbor work
| ing. Federal conciEators attempting
arbitrate controversy between coast
wise tug boatnlen and owners. These
workers protesting against wage cuts
OF $35 and $50 a month. One hun
dred and twenty thousand nembe: s
Of tho International Seamen's Union
taking strike votes in protest aGains.
wage reductions proposed by the
:Arlerican Steamship Owners associ,,-
ton.
More than 5000 actors and vaude-
vile performers on the Rialto With
out work.
May Day finds the employment sit
uation in Pennsylvania Improving
Robert ]. Peters, director Of the s;ats
employment bureau estimates the &C.
tai number of unemployed IN Penn
sy;varia early in April did not exceed
25G,0o0.
The Philadelphia Chamber Of Com
merce recently gave out q statement
that the high tide Of unemployment
in Philadelphia has not yet bcc1
REACHED. 1t also says that the num-
Der Of perscns unemployed in Phil
adell!l:a is larger than the figures Of
the state bureau show
Industrial employment il? West
Virginia has fallen off within the ''@t
two months so tila. OF 100000 per
sons normally employed, it is eati.nat-
ed that so per cent OF the number
new is Idle. according TO the latest
statistics Of the state bureau OF labor.
The most important industry in the
state-coal mining, has been among
the foremost to suffer owing 10 the
no market" condition. 1t is esiiHat-
81 tha, ut least 60 per cent OF the
miners haze no steady employment
although the reports are based only
on scattering SURVEYS.
4 canvass made by John S. &. Pa-
vie; state labor commissioner OF New
Hampshire indicates that one-tfird
ois the normally employed We're idle
early In the. year, and Mr. Davie finds
that many CT the. S44 plants from,
which returns We're received are still
below normal production but imprdy-
ing slowly. The figures OF the can
vass showed that OF 9l.2G7 usually
employed in tho S44 plants, 1880
, were idle on account Of lack OF orders,
and 1894 for. other reasons, while
1884 were owrking part tint. max
ing a total OF. 53,i3S affected.
Information obtained from the state
department OF labor and industries
IN Massachusetts, indicates that En-
employment IS still considerable but
has been relieved slightly in recent
weeks by pickups in the textile, shoe
; meta, ana machinery industries. IN
! these industrial groups strikes and
lockouts are few ana minor. Disputes
over wage and working agreements
however, have broken out in the
}lui.d!ng trades. the garment making
shops. printing plants and stree; rail
ways. with stoppa%es Of work in ali
but the latter that a"a vario!l$ly term
ed strikes and lockouis.
Reports received by manufactur-
ing, industrial and commercial aSsn-
icits in Delaware in April do no. give
,,:ol,i:s- OF any general Improvement
. ct conditions this May day. Estl-
mates of the number Of unemployed
! IN tie states generally agree upon
about l1.50G, moro than three-fourihs
cf the idle persons hein5 in Whining
ton.
Vermont: approximately 20 per
cent Of the 5000 men normally en-
rioyed in the various branches OF thc
:. ami" industry are working.
Or January first the Industrial, En-
/ ;,Icyment survey OF The government
!! estimated that there were 21,3G0 un :
n1Dloyed in Rhode Island. Twelve