New Britain herald., 1921-09-14
INDUSTRIAL VIEW
 IS MUCH BRIGHTER
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IS or 2O,0O0,000. This was outside of lagricultural occupations. The ratio
 of unemployed to the total of work
 CTS today is thus less than the ratio
 of unemployed to the total of work
 CTS in 1914. And by a wide margin. 1 The statement has been constant
 ly made, in the news and in the edi- | torial columns of the newspapers, that the department of labor has re-
 ported 5,735,000 men as being out | of work. The department of labor
 has reported no such thing. It did report that, according to the best es- innate that could be made there are | 5,735, 900 fewer men, women and | children on the payrolls than there were in March, 1920. There is a diff ference with a distinction. It is very
 different matter from saying that | there are 5,735, 900 men unemployed Not All Bread Winners.
 Nothing is to be gained by stick | ing our heads in the sand and ignor- | ing the gravity of the present un- | employment situation. Neither do
 we profit by distorting the facts and
 exaggerating the figures estimated.
 Here is one salient fact to be kept | in mind-probably not more than a
 third of these 5,735,o00 are the prin- cipal bread winners of the family. Taking all the families of the
 United States there are on the aver age over two bread winners to every
 family. If one of these bread win
 ners is unemployed, it seriously crip-
 ples but it does not necessarily inn
 poverish the family. Mind you, I am
 not saying that there is not at this time considerable actual suffering
 among our people, nor that this win ter may not bring more suffering un-
 less something intelligent and effective is done to relieve the situation. I am
 simply calling attention to the fact that while unemployment today is a grave matter, there are neverth eless
 about ten or 12 millions of our people
 at work. And comparatively few fam lilies have had the only bread winners put out of a job.
 "Our problem here at home is all
 the harder to solve because it is not
 by any manner of means our problem alone. Unemployment is world-wide.' | Govt. Doing Its Part.
 Discussing efforts to relieve the
 situation Secretary Davis said that the employment service of the de-
 partment Of labor was doing all it | could to place workers in positions. During the harvest" he explained,
 ''it sent between 5000 and 60,000
 men to the farms and kept them nov
 ing as the harvest season moved
 northward.
 "The employment service is at pres
 ent taking care of the thrashing and
 corn cutting situation wherever ad-
 ditional men are needed for this pur- | pose.
 Signs of Recovery.
 | Cotton and woolen goods already show signs of recovery and there is scarcely a plant in, the country turn | ing out silk hosiery that is not work | ing full or overtime. Silk fabrics are on the move. These things speak for themselves and may be speaking the same language as the figures showing | that more garages than houses have | been built in recent months. Here is
 another fact with its own significance. Shoe factories seem to be working for
 the most part on fancy high priced | women's shoes. This may be account | ed for by the further fact that men | now out of the hardy form of em- | ployment are not shoe buyers. The | demand for these will come when the
 railroads and the factories are start | ed on a more going scale, when the
 more staple grades of shoes for men | will come into larger demand. That cannot be long delayed. The situa- | ton begins to brighten"
 Airplanes without pilots, directed by radio, have made successful flights.