Evening star., 1921-04-30

| Slightly more than 100000 men
will be unemployed in nineteen states
! of the Union when May day is ush-
| cred in tomorrow, according to esti-
mates given to the Associated Press
. by government. labor. state and in
| dustrial officials.
! A large percentage of those who
are unable to obtain work are in the
! big industrial sections of the eastern
| and central states. included in these
| nineteen states from which unem
! ployed figures could be obtained, but
! reports from the other twenty-nne
| states, where figures were >unobtain
| able. all show that unemployment
| exists and the estimated unempioy-
| ment of the country, made by experts.
( including labor leaders, ranges from
| 100000 to 100000 persons.
| Reports of much Unemployment
show up from New York. Illinois.
| Pennsylvania. Indiana. Michigan,
/ Wisconsin and Ohio. while practical
| ly every state east of the NisSS
| sippi river and north of the Aason
| 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 states
] is growing more acute daily.
l fHFHi "ork 10 SOiNS.
! The report Of Tie United states
| government employment service
| showed that on January / of this
! year the leading cities of the coun-
| try. with population of 32,36O.?5",
| had total of 1.S02,755 unemployed
| and subsequent bulletins issued by
! this service indicate that this num-
| her has increased somewhat in these
| cities during the last four months.
! While the unempioyHne..t extends to
| the west and south, yet in the reports
| from the former q decided tone OF
| optimism prevails for a resumption
| Of business activity that would speed
| lily do away with the unemploymeht'
[ while in the south the situation does
not appear to be of "a serious nature
and reports state that when the agri-
! cultural work is IN full swing the
| surplus OF labor VIII 3. small.
Centers of Unemployment.
| New York city. phiiada2lphia, chi
cago. Detroit and Cleveland stand out
! as the centerS of the un~mP.oyment
| wave.
! In the country's largest city. reports
| from experts indicate that approx
! mately 100000 men and women are
out of work. On January this year
1 the government estimated that 23i.2 .2A3
| were unemployed in Gotham and this
J has been Increased during the tour
months according to the monthly bui-
letins of the industrial service.
| The remainder of the state however,
/ has not gone unScathed py any eanS'
| for the reports from Albany snow
| that 364,0OO of the states 1,5o0,0oo
| factory workers, including Ne" YORK
| city. are unemployed. Other new,
York state cities report unemployed
| on about the same scale.
Increase in Illinois.
The United States employment serv-
| ice figures for Illinois shows a some.
| what like condition. While 5000
ere unemployed in the city of Chi
cago in January, yet the rate of In
crease in the last four months would
indicate that this has been increased
| to more than 100000 by today. In
! the state of Illinois, however, the
/ figures move upward. The govern
ments puts them this way: On Janu-
airy /. 1920, 1,424 concerns employed
943,400 persons. On January l, 1921.
these same firms employed 539.3l3.
showing reduction during that year
| of 4140S7. Chicago firms were in
cluded IN this survey. No figures for
! the next four months on these con-
Germs is given. but an estimate based
| on l07 concerns. each employing more
| than 500 men or women, snow a de-
crease in employment of about 3 per
cent on April /, as compared with
| January l, 1921.
Pennsylvania probably ranks next
with an estimated number of unem-
ployed placed at 100000 by the state
bureau of employment. Members of
the Philadelphia Chamber of Com
! merce recently issued a statement
| contending that this figure was too
! low.
Estimates in States.
| The estimates in the states where
| unemployment f1ourishes most at the
present time show the number of
| unemployed to be: New York. $50 900:
| Illinois. 100000; Pennsylvania, $50
! 900; Ohio, 100000; Wisconsin. 14O,-
! 900: West Virginia. $4,000; New
| Hampshire, $4,000: California. 10000;
| Rhode Island. 21,300: Washington,
| 10000; Oklahoma. $4,000; Nebraska.
! 10000; Idaho, 10000; Oregon, II 900;