The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30

Claude i. Connally, state commits
siOncr of labor.
Wisconsin: SO per cent more per-
sons placed by employment offices
in March than In February.
Reports by sections and states
| follow:
East and southeast: New York
While no official state statistics on
tho number OF unemployed were
| available. II was estimated by per-
sons conversant with the situation
that about 100000 persons in New
York would be unemployed May /.
However, 100000 more persons will
be employtd on that date than in
August. 1921, which was the month
OF greatest unemployment. accord
ing to tho estimate of statistics OF
the state department of labor.
New Jersey; Building is about
normal in all parts of the state, ac-
cording to Russell Eldridge. feder-
al director OF employment In the
department of labor. Farm labor
! is scarce, he said. Business is i'm
proving north Of Trenton. The
southern part OF the state Is re-
turning to normal conditions more
slowly. The pottcries OF Trenton
are being operated at about 90 per
cent of normal and the steel plants
at about 10 per cent. Rubber mills
are working In three shifts.
Delaware-The building trade IS
noticoably reviying. Throughout the
state there Is II demand for farm
labor and for workers in the can
neries. In Wilmington 1t was esti-
mated that the large manufacturing
| industries were employing working
| forces from rs to 90 per cent Of nor
mall There is continued demand for
plumbers, plasterers skilled carpen-
ters and high-class machinists.
| Massach officials In
close touch with the labor situation
estimated the probable number OF
unemployed May l as "a per cent OF
tho wage -earncrs, The unemployed
In Boston alone will number approNi-
matoly $1,000, according to the esti-
mate OF tho state free employment
bureau of that city.
Rhode Island-The situation ex-
elusive of the textile strike, is fairy
encouraging. Deputy COMMISSIONER
OF Labor Christopher NJ. Damn be-
lieves, The greatest unemployment
aside from the textile industry is
found in. the machine and iewelry
trades
sioncr OF labor. said that advices re-
ceived from manufacturers showed n
general Improvement In business IN
Maine I'm the last few months and a
belief that conditions would con-
tinuo TO improve. II was estimar-
cd that 30 to 40 per cent of the 12.-
| 000 boot ana shoe workers were
| unempluycd
Virtually all Of the $1,000 work
nrs In woulen mills ana all but 10
or Is per cent of the 1000 cotton
| mill operatives In the state were nt
work. Between so and S5 per cent
of the 1900 persons engaged In the
| pulp and paper business were esti-
mated as employed but the condl-
| tions there were not considered quite
so good as II year ago,
New Hampshire 80 state Labor
| Commissioner John S. Il, Davis said
| that New Hampshire business was
recovering very slowly with the ea-
ception of the metal trades.
Vermont-Aside from the granite
strike, the labor situation was not
regarded as alarming, according TO
Eoffclals Of the Associated Indus
| tries of Vermont. II IL explained that
while some industries have been
rather hard hit during the last year,
employees have shifted to others
which are active.
pennsylvania-'Tn depres-
sion virtually Is at an end in Penn
sylvania," clifford II, Connolly
Pennsylvania commissioner of labor
and industry declared. During April
building operations in every section
OF tire state have brought a marked
shortage OF skilled workers in thC
building industry. In Pittsburgh
Erie, Harrisburg. Johnston, McKees