Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-30
Large Percentage OF Unem-
ployed Men Are In Indus
trial Centers OF The East;'
New York State Heads The
List.

than 2.000,000 men will be unem-!
ployed in nineteen states of the union
when May day is ushered in tomor-
row, according to estimates given to
the Associated Press by government,
labor, state and industrial officials.
Aflarge percentage of those who are
unable to obtain work arc in the big
industrial sections Of the eastern and
central states. included in these nine
teen states from which unemployed
figures could be obtained. but reports
from the other 20 states where figures
were unobtainable, all show that un-
employment exists and the estimated
by experts including labor leaders.
range from 3,00O,0 900 to 5000, 900 per-
! sons.
Reports of much unemployment
show up from New York. Illinois,
Pennsylvania. Indiana, Michigan. Wis
~consin and Ohio, while practically
every state. east of the Mississippi
river N north of the Mason and
Dixon line is seriously affected by the
wave that has swept owe the country
during the last year. The reports in
dictate that the situation in these more
densely populated states is growing
more acute daily. Il
The report of the United States gov
eminent employment service showed
that on January first of this yea the
leading cities Of the country with a
population of 3%2.560.s53 had a total of
1,S02,755 unemployed and subsequent
bulletins issued by this service indi-
cate that this number 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 a decided ton OF
optimism prevails for q resumption oil
business activity that would speedily
do away with the unemployment while
in the south the situation does not ap.
pear to be of a serious nature and re.
ports state that when the agriculture
work is in full swing the surplus o
labor will be small.
New Work city. Philadelphia, Chi
cago. Detroit and Cleveland stand GU
$ as the centers of the unemployment
wave.
l from experts indicate that approx
mately 100000 men and women ar
out Of work. On January l, thisy year
: the government estimated that 234.
r 243 We're unemployed in Gotham AM
S this has been increased during TIL
four months according to the month";
. bulletins Of the industrial service.
!, The remainder of the state. how
. ever, has not gon unscathed by In
means, for the reports from Alban,
q show that $4,000 of the states /.
=. 100000 factory workers, includin
New York city. are unemployed
: Other New York state cities repor
= unemployed OIL about the same scale
Number Increases.
The United States employmer
service figures for Illinois shows
somewhat like condition. While sc
900 were unemployed in the city {
Chicago in January. yet the rate {
increase in the last four months woul
to more han 100000 by today. I
e the state Of Illinois. however. tn
IS figures move upward. The COVER,
II ment puts them this way: On Jan,
AIRY I, 1920, 1.424 concerns cmploye
d 943.400 persons. On January 1. 1872
d these same firms employed 539.31
IT showing a reduction during hat yes
e of 414.oS7. Chicago firms were il
d cluded in this urvey No figures f.
t. the next four months on these col
IS Germs is given b.: IN estimate base
It on 107 concerns, each employir
mor than. 500 men or women. sho
a decrease in employment Of about
per cent, on April 1, as compared wi,
AZ January I, 1921.
is pennsylvania probably ranks ne,
~ with All estimated number of III
employed placed at $500 by tt
state bureau Of employment. Men
. bers of the Philadelphia chamber
commerce recently issued a stat
mcnt c%ontending hat this figure w;
too low.
List of States.
The estimates in the. states whel
Unemployment f1ourishes most at tt
present time show the number
unemployed to be: