The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-21
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Government Employment Bull
Ietin Made Available.
C. OF C. HELPS GATHER DATA
Figures on Employment and
Industrial Volume Given.
Employment Statistics Most
Reliable Index Is Claim.

Reliable Index Is Claim.
Thru the efforts of C. C. Sickler,
! secretary of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce, the members of that or
ganization have had made available
for them, a unique government pub
| LEGATION which is declared to be one
of the most reliable induces possible, of
trade and Industrial conditions gen.
orally, turnout the United States.
The United States Department of
Labor is publishing, each. month. an
| Industrial Employment Survey Bulle-
| TIM" designed to analyze and distrib-
ute accurate information as to indus
trial employment. E. F. Fader, with
headquarters in Kansas City. is dis
trict director of the organization
which gathers the information for
transmission to Washington.
C. of c. Gathers Data.
One of the agencies thru which he
keeps closely in touch with the en-
ployment situation in Topeka, is the
Chamber of Commerce, from the Of
flee of which organization question
naires and surveys are regularly sup
piled to him. By the cooperation of
Fader, it has been made possible for
every member of the chamber to re-
ceive the bulletin monthly if he wishes
it.
Sick1er has received 1900 copies of
the December bulletin, which are to
be distributed among the membership.
A mailing list is to be made up from
the membership, of those persons who
wish to receive the bulletin each
month, direct from the government.
The Industrial Employment Survey
Bulletin is a barometer of business
and industrial conditions. This bull
letin is also a news service. The in
formation gathered is made available
to the newspapers of the country i'm
mediately upon completion each
month and before publication in the
bulletin.
1.-THE Inauguration and development
of this service has been in response
to "a demand from business interests
for authoritative statements of bust
ness conditions making available to
the press and to the banks of the
country the true trend of business.
stripped of all propaganda" Fader
says.
The information in the bulletin Is
gathered in 231 leading manufactur-
ing cities of the country. In sixty-five
of these cities, in which are located
the bulk of industries and manufactur-
ing of the country, there are gathered
on the last day of the month by bust
ness men connected with banks and
number of people engaged in each of
the industries. These figures are for
warded to Washington by wire and
form the basis of a. tabulation which
gives an exact statement of the trend
of each line of manufacturing bust
ness.
Unlike most barometers of bust
ness this service is not based upon or
modified by figures pertaining to the
value or volume of commodities pro-
duced. nor by financial or bank state
ments,' Fader claims.
Is Most Accurate Factor.
After a careful analysis of the fac
tors best qualified to indicate the
trend of industries, the figures on the
number of persons employed in each
general industrial group was found to
be most accurate. In ether words, of
the three factors entering into produc-
ton, materials, capital and labor, la
Dor is the most responsive to business
fluctuations or changes since it varies
imm ediately with the increase or de-
crease of the volume of business. l.
follows that series of figures deter
mined from the same firms over regu-
lar periods would indicate not alone
the trend, but the volume of the in
dustry from which the figures are
gathered.
In January, 1921, when the greatest
pressure was felt from the depression,
this service published a statement
that in excess of four and one-half
million people were idle in this coun-
try. The idleneSS continued to, in
crease until about July 18th, when
apparently the bottom of the depres-
sion had been reached and from that
time to the present there has been a
steady improvement. In addition to
such general information this publ
cation gives detailed information on
all manufacturing in the country, the
industries being divided into Ii prin-
cipaf groups.
The condition of business in each
one of these groups is shown sep
arately, and is also shown separately
for each of the sixty-fiVe principal
industrial centers.
Commercial Organizations Comment.
In addition to the detailed figures
collected each month on employing
various banking and commercial or
CARNATIONS in all of the 231 manufac-
turing centers, contribute a statement
of business conditions in their locality.
This appears in the form of comment
and occupies about twelve pages of
the bulletin each month.
Topeka is one of the cities in the
system aand thru the Chamber of
Commerce and other agencies there
is collected each month a detailed
statement of wholesale and retail
business, manufacturing and building
In the state of Kansas all of the prin-
cipal cities are contributing the same
information with the result that a
clear Understandable picture is given
of business conditions i'm this state