The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-30
OVER 100000
IDLE IN AMERICA
Big Industrial Centers of
East and Central West
Most Affected
CONDITIONS BETTER
WEST AND SOUTH
Greatest Idleness In New York, Illinois
and PENNSYLVANIA Figures for 10
States - About Half of Granite Men
Working i'm Vermont.


States - About Half of Granite Men
Working i'm Vermont.
CHICAGO. April 3O-Slightly more
than 100000 men will be unemployed
in 10 states of the Union when May day
is u,hcred in tomorrow, according TO es-
Inmates given to the Associated Press by
government labor, state and industrial
officials,
\ large percentage of those who are
unable to obtain work are in the big in
dustrial sections of the eastern and CEN
trail states included in these 10 states
from which unemployed figures could be
obtained. but reports from the other %
states where figures were understandable
all show that unemployment exists and
the estimated unemployment of the coun-
try. made by experts including labor
leaders. range from ;3,QOO'oOo TO, 2'ooo'-
600 persons.
Reports of much unemployment show
up from New York. Illinois. Pennsyl-
vania Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin,
and Ohio. while practically every state
east of the Mississippi river and north
of the Mason and Dixon line is seriously
affected by the wave that has swept over
y
reports indicate that the situation IN
these more dcnsely populated states Is
growing more acute daily.
While the unemployment extends to
the West and South. yet in the reports
from the former a decided tone of optl-
mism prevails for n resumption of busl-
ness activity that would speedily do
away with the unemployment while in
the South the situation does not appea"
to be of serious nature and reports
state that when the agricultural work
is in full swing the surplus of labor will
be small.
New York city. Philadelphia. Chicago,
Detroit and Cleveland stand out as the
centerS of the unemployment wave.
In the cOuntry's largest city, reports
from experts indicate that approximately
100000 men and women are out of work.
The remainder of the state, however,
has not gone unScathcd by any means,
for the reports from Albany show that
3G400O of the states 100000 factory
workers, including New York city, are
unemployed. Other New York state
cities report unemployed on about the
same scale.
The United States employment service
figures for Illinois shows a somewhat like
condition. While $4,000 were unem-
pIOyed in the city of Chicago in January,
yet the rate of increase in the last four
months would indicate tnaL TINS mas Deeu
increased to more than 100000 by to-
day. In the state of Illinois, however,
the figures move upward. The govern
ment puts them this way: On Jan.
/. 1920, 1924 concerns employed 943,-
400 persons. On Jan. l. 1921. these
same firms employed J39,313, showing
a reduction during that YEAR of 414,0S7.
Chicago firms were included in this sur
vey. No figures for the next four months
on these concerns is given but an esti-
mate based on 107 concerns, each en-
ploying more than 500 men or women,
show a decrease in employment of about
three per cent on April 1, as compared
with Jan. l. 1921.
Pennsylvania probably ranks next with
an estimated number of unemployed
placed at 100000 by the state bureau of
employment Members of the Philadel-
phia Chamber of Commerce recently is
sued n statement contending that this
figure was too low.
The estimates in the states where IN
employment flourishes most at the pres
eHt time show the number of employed
to be.