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

about 2UO.U0U persons were Glleiii-
| p!oyeti but since that time TIC indus
! trial situation has improved :ro'a day
70 day.
Estimates on the labor situation
are based on reports from 'a5 man
! uiacturiug plants IN the state. en-
| ploying g total Of Ze5,00D persons.
Approximately :lo.000 aEe report
I'd by the government survey 70 pe
!! cat OF work in Ohio. This unernploy-
ment is divided with the northern end
; bearing the greater share, Cleveland
being reported with $1,000 and To-
/ leao with 2S,op0; Cincinnati 1890
land Akron with 10000.
George F. Miles, director Of the
! United States Labor Service III the
state says tn" resumption OF outside
construction work. and lake traffic
will absorb some Of the unemployed,
| bur. he said. unless industry Is
speeded up within :: few months, the
situation VIII become acute.
! Approximately $4,000 persons Will
/ he idle in oklahoma on May l al
though labor conditions. so far Is un-
! rest or r:itiicalisn is concerned. will
! be good. according to a, statement by
Claude f. Connal!y, state labor COM
missioner.
Mrs. N. L. Bowe, in charge Of the
federal state employment bureau of
North Dakota estimates that there
are probably 1900 men idle III ths,
rate. The supply OF labor VII just
aboa; equal thc demand. il We have
favorable growing weather Mrs
! Howe said.
The total unemployed in Kentucky
is estimated at from 5000 to 10000
by Sigmund ~ Lee, editor OF the La
tor Journal. 4 union labor organ pub
ished here. y majority Of this num-
ber, Nj. Lee said, are railroad and
| building track workers.
| Frank a. Kennedy, secretary of the
/ Nebraska department Of labor, says
no one in Nebraska has any definite
! information as to the number OF men
| out OF employment in the state. lie
! cha-a acterizes as too high the state
ment of State Attorney General Da-
Wis that there are 1900 men out 'f
work in Omaha.
Eas.n. his opinion on reports from
293 concerns on March 81, T. a. VIII
son. state labor commissioner said
that he estimated that about thirty
| eight per cent Of the normal number
| on workers. not including railroad
employees, were iole in Arkansas.
The government report for Missouri
cn January first showed $4,000 unen-
y q
/ Of the State Federation Of Labor
/ states that there arc between l43,00G
and 10000 members OF labor unions
in the state, exclusive OF railroad men
and that while he has no definite
tgurs:, he !>a:;-ves the number Of un-
employed will range oefwcen % &ni
20 per cent cf 1his number.
Fam la:,or requirements in Iowa
are SO per cent of na.nlal al the pros
! ent time and the supply is 80 per
Gent of normal, according to Franz
;; Pinney. United States agricultural
statist;cian for Iowa.
In other lines there is q marked
,oversurply of labor because OF the
.ack OF activity in operations, Fred
t A.. Can9eld. president Of the Iowa
/ Federation Of Labor, declared. There
are slightly more than 100000 per-
scns employed il factories normally.
according TO Mr.. Garfield, but at the
present time about so per cent OF
these are unemployed.
| OF The 900 railroad nen nor
r4lally employed 25 per cent are out
Of wori; now, he SAID.
Charles McCaffery,, secretary OF
the Chamber of Commerce of Sioux
Falls estimates not more than 100
f.en arc out OF employment in South
Dakota.
Henry OIL, Jr.. general organizer
tor tho Wisconsin Stale Fedei ation
OF Labor reports approximateli 49,
| 600 unemployed in Wisconsin at the
present time.
Unemployment conditions in Cali
! rornia. which at no time dur;nE the
winter were acute, are improving
with the coming OF summer weather,
! according 20 John z. McLansii:;n.
state labor commissioner.
There is Il surplus OF men in the
state at present. but the agricultural
work is gradually cutting down the
number" Mr. Mclaughlin said. "A
rough guess would place the number
OF unemployed at around 10000 at
present.
| During the winter at one time we
had around 10000 men idle in the
state"
Labor conditions in Idaho az rep
resented in the three Dig industries OF
1.-THE statc. mining, ;liinD":ins and az
ricu!tural. ;,.e far helou normal, ac-
lcording 10 statement mada hy O. IL.
Barber, state CONN: iss:oner Of iin-
migration, labor, ana statistics. OF the
5000 men normally employed i'll the
mining industry only 1000 are en-
nloyed at the present time, there IS
practical Y no employment in the
iumboring industry, and employment
is norma! III agricultural pursuits, ac-
; cording TO Commissioner Barber.
Between i2.000 ana 1900 men out
Of WORK were in the state the early
part OF 1921. according to figures
presented 20 the State Federation Of